Indissoluble Marriage, Eternal Love: Dreams Beyond Reach?

Reflections on the theme of marriage as addressed by Fr. Julián Carrón, in his recent book Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom

With Dr. Joseph ATKINSON, Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, and Barry and Laura STOHLMAN, Married Couple

Presented by Crossroads Cultural Center

Dr. Atkinson will develop the theme addressed by Father Julián Carrón in Disarming Beauty, and Barry and Laura Stohlman will offer a witness to show how these provoking words by Fr. Carrón can be verified in real life:

The nature of the marriage vocation is walking together towards the only One who can answer the thirst for happiness that the other arouses constantly in me: Christ. In this way it will be possible not to move from one husband to another, like the Samaritan woman in the gospel, without finding satisfaction. The awareness that she was unable to solve her own drama by herself, despite changing husbands five times, made her perceive Jesus as a good so desirable that she could not help crying out, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may no longer be thirsty."

Without an experience of Christ as human fulfillment, the Christian ideal of marriage is reduced to something impossible to realize. The indissolubility of marriage and the eternity of love seem to be dreams beyond reach. In fact they are the fruit of such an intense experience of Christ that they appear to the couple themselves as a surprise, as the witness that "nothing is impossible for God." Only an experience of fullness of life like this can show the rationality of the Christian faith as totally corresponding to man's desire and needs, even in marriage and the family.

~Father Julián Carrón, Disarming Beauty, p. 186

The event is free and open to the public.

About this Event

Date: Friday, December 1, 2017
Time: 7pm
Location: Crossroads Auditorium
125 Maiden Lane, 15th Floor, NY, NY
(ID required to enter the building)
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About the Speakers

Joseph Atkinson
Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture, John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family

Barry and Laura Stohlman
Married couple

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