Lesson 40
How Can You Insure Your Marriage?
Get Your Copy of Marriage Insurance at the Relevant Radio Store!
Welcome back to our Lenten Lessons on the Sacraments, and today is our last lesson! I am very happy that you joined us this Lent, and I sure hope you learned more about your Faith, and that you want to keep learning because we have really only scratched the surface. You can never learn everything about the Catholic faith. That is our number one testimonial at Relevant Radio from listeners and viewers: “Thank you Relevant Radio. I never knew that. I have never learned so much about my Catholic Faith.” Those testimonials as well as the “praise reports” we hear each evening on the Family Rosary Across America are music to my ears.
Before I jump into our final lesson today, I want to sincerely thank our master videographers Dan Axt and Dennis Brucks, as well as the rest of the Team working on this series: Damien Schmitt, Beth Groshek, Emily Sturgeon, Dave Kottler, John Hanretty, and Peter Atkinson. They do a great job and are a joy to work with.
So . . . just what is Marriage Insurance? It’s a very popular book I wrote with the intention of giving couples practical advice about building a happy and lasting marriage. The concept is simple: on the day you get married, you pay me $1000, and if your marriage ever breaks up, I will pay you $1,000,000, but only IF you follow my 12 rules of advice in this book. They might be hard to hear, but they are based on time-tested truths, and even if you can’t put all of them into practice, try to put one into practice, and it will build from there. The “rules” are mostly about communication.
Here they are:
Rule #1: Try to marry someone from a similar background.
Rule #2: Don’t live together before you get married.
Rule #3: Don’t use artificial birth control.
Rule #4: Go out on a weekly date.
Rule #5: Go on a yearly vacation.
Rule #6: Go to bed at the same time.
Rule #7: Have a weekly business meeting.
Rule #8: Never say “mine.”
Rule #9: Go to Mass every week.
Rule #10: Go to monthly confession.
Rule #11: Pray together every day.
Rule #12: Every day, say to your spouse, “I love you.”
And that’s it! If you have not read this book, I am sure you are very curious about a number of the rules, and probably want to read the book yourself. To get a copy, just go to the Relevant Radio Store. And the appropriate age for young men and young women to read this book is when they begin to notice that they are attracted to the opposite sex. Because “dating” is for “courtship”, and “courtship” is for a lasting and fruitful marriage.
And that’s it! I wish you a very holy, holy week and a very happy Easter.
So thank you for tuning in every day of Lent to learn more about your Catholic faith, because if you Learn it, then you can Live it; and if you Live it, you will Love it; and if you Love it, you will never Leave it!
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Supplementary video footage used in Lenten Lessons on the Sacraments courtesy of the following creators:
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Mass of the Ages
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St. Michael’s Abbey
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Latin Mass Photographer
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Borak Weddings
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Ross Wilcox
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Full Time Filmmaker
