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Category Archives: Dating and Relationships
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Holy Romance: 4 Ways You Can Start Your Romance With God
Like most girls, I love watching chick flicks. It is romantic and exciting to watch a love story unfold and end happily ever after. However, at the end of the movie, I feel incomplete as a single woman and immediately start daydreaming about my future spouse. St. Paul says, “The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit,” 1 Corinthians 7:34. Am I acting as though I am unmarried or married when I am focusing on my future spouse? Sometimes when we think our vocation is marriage, we tend to focus on catching a guy with our beauty. The more we flirt, the quicker we fall in love and live happily ever after… or so we think.
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Ask Fr. J – Is premarital sex adultery?
Q: Is premarital sex “committing adultery?” Where in the Bible does it say that sex is wrong?
A: Okay let me begin with the good news, sex is not wrong…if done in the union of a husband and wife in the Sacrament of Marriage.
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3 Things All Seniors Wish They Knew as Freshmen
Any graduating senior will tell you what they wish they knew as when they were freshman. Most of this comes from circumstance: if someone studied all the time and never had fun, they might tell you to have more fun. If someone who had a lot of fun but never studied, they will tell you to study more. So everyone has different some nugget of wisdom they will share. Then there are some universal lessons that everybody learns, whether they like it or not. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you did in high school, you just can’t [...]
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Ask Fr. J – Was it wrong for me to date an athiest?
Q: I just recently ended a relationship with an atheist. Was I wrong for going out with him in the first place? While I dated him, I totally felt like I could convince him that Catholicism is a wonderful thing. Instead, I felt like I was offending the Lord. Was I wrong for going out with my atheist boyfriend?
A: Not in the least. Please, don’t feel guilty about that choice in your life. If your intent was to show yourself as a person of faith and to maybe try to encourage him to see beyond the narrow, lonely view of the world atheism professes, then I don’t see anything you should be guilty about.
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Love Life Podcast - 1.10 – The Religious Life
I have a crush on a guy - but he feels called to be a priest!
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Love Life Podcast - 1.09 – Not Quite Sex
Sexting, webcams, and 'friends with benefits;' the gray areas of relationships.
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Ask Fr. J – I had sex, will I go to hell?
It is serious what you have done, but don’t live in guilt…go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation and heal this wound on your soul. Then find the time to talk to someone you trust, a priest, a nun or a youth minister and let them help you find a way to keep yourself from falling back into this kind of pattern in your relationship.
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Ask Fr. J – Is it wrong to date a black guy if you’re white?
Q: Is it wrong date a black guy if you are white?
A: There is nothing morally wrong about dating someone from another race.
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Love Life Podcast - 1.08 – Sexual Mistakes
I messed up with that whole 'sexual purity' thing; what now?
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Deconstructed: The Failed Relationships of Pop Music. Eminem + Rihanna. Katie + Snoop. Lady Antebellum + Charles.
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