Quote from Sir Paul Coleridge, a senior family court judge:
'Marriage is not something that falls out of the sky ready-made on to beautiful people in white linen suits.
'It
involves endless hard work, compromises, forgiveness and love. However
right the person is, they might not be right two years later. It doesn't
matter how wonderful you appear to be to your partner at the beginning,
you will begin to display faults that we all have.
'In
order for a relationship to last, you have to hang in there and adjust
and change and alter and understand. Long, stable marriages are carved
out of the rock of human stubbornness and selfishness and difficulties.'
Feast of Saints Simon & Jude, Apostles
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*Readings: Ephesians 2:19-22; Psalm 19:2-5; Luke 6:12-16*
At what we might call the “high end” and “low end” of the Twelve, some
apostles do not have thei...
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