Welcome to daily Rosary meditations with Dr. Mike Schurselik, where you learn how to meditate and establish a daily habit of prayer while discovering the truths of the Catholic faith. Is there someone you know that could benefit from daily prayer?

Share this meditation with them. Welcome to episode six in our series of meditations on God's plan for human love

for marriage and family. So let's begin in the name of the

Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've

promised to pray for. The Catholic Church has been the world's great and perhaps only real champion of monogamy.

We say that you get to pick one person to join with until one of you dies.

Other religions are almost without exception, polygamous.

They assume that a man cannot limit himself to one woman.

The Jews of the Old Testament, the ancient pagans, the Muslims, the Mormons, you name it, they all say a man should be able to have more

than one woman. And in in some ways as the famous novelist

sacred onset said the other Christians who allow for divorce are even worse. At least in a system of pagan polygamy, the man is still

required to support his old wife even after he acquires a new younger one.

But when other Christians began allowing divorce,

especially no fault divorce,

a man could just wash his hands of his old wife

whenever he wanted a new one.

It's all the same old idea.

People don't want to commit.

Men and young men especially don't want to be tied down.

They don't want to get stuck with just one person.

And the church says, don't be afraid. Give your life away, your whole life. It's what you were made for.

Our Father who arts in heaven, hallow would be your name,

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