What Does It Mean to Be "Open to Life"? (with Beth Sri)
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
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🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Should we be open to having another child? This is a question that many married couples face throughout their marriage. Having children requires a lot of sacrifice. However, the Church and experience teaches us about the “supreme goodness” of having children. Dr. Edward Sri is joined by his wife Beth Sri to discuss the discernment process of having children and some practical tips to aid you in the process.
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Children are meant to bring a husband and wife into deeper unity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards Three, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. One question that many married couples face throughout their married life is this, |
| 0:18.0 | should we be open to having another child? Are we in a place where we should have another child? Is God |
| 0:25.2 | inviting us to this right now? That's a very personal question and there's some |
| 0:29.4 | great Catholic principles that can help us in that discernment and to help us with that I'm going to |
| 0:34.0 | bring on a very special guest today and that's my wife Beth. Beth, |
| 0:37.0 | welcome to the show. Hello everyone, great to be with you. So welcome to the |
| 0:40.8 | All Things Catholic Podcast. I'm your host Edward Sree and every once a while I bring in my wife Beth to shed light on things related to marriage, to family life, to life of prayer and spirituality. Today we're going to talk about this question |
| 0:55.0 | about should we be open to having another child. |
| 0:57.8 | Now, let's start off with the foundations |
| 1:00.1 | before we get into some of the particulars. |
| 1:01.8 | Just we want to make sure we are grounded in the Catholic Church teaching, |
| 1:06.0 | how the Catholic Church invites us to view children as a blessing. |
| 1:10.4 | This is so countercultural because our world today doesn't see children as a blessing. |
| 1:15.0 | They see children as, you know, an inconvenience or something that you might want to have because |
| 1:20.0 | you want to have children for your own sake, but maybe just have one and then you have a dog and you don't want too many because you know it's too expensive and it's going to be exhausting and you want to have your own free time and your own free life you know well that's not a Catholic vision of how to look at |
| 1:34.8 | children what does the church actually teach about the blessing of children so in |
| 1:39.2 | the catechism it says children are the supreme gift of marriage and that children |
| 1:45.0 | contribute very greatly to their parents welfare and I think this is so good |
| 1:52.2 | to take these two in tandem, the supreme gift of marriage, the highest gift of your marriage. |
| 1:58.0 | And not that parents can do so much for their children. No, it's actually the opposite. The children contribute very |
| 2:05.6 | greatly to the welfare of the parents. Let's just break that down a little bit. Just that first point |
| 2:11.5 | about the children is a supreme gift. I want you to go back and |
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