Sexuality – A Resource for Loving

By Francine & Byron Pirola | March 27, 2015 |

Sexuality touches upon every aspect of our personhood, body and soul, and it is expressed as either masculinity or femininity. It is developed and expressed primarily through relationships. Our masculinity or femininity draws us into relationship and makes us attractive to the other sex. When we are attracted to another, our good qualities are brought…

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Flash Wedding – Short Marriage

By Francine & Byron Pirola | March 22, 2015 |
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Weddings aren’t getting any cheaper. According to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, the average wedding in Australia costs $36,200. Around half ($18,683) goes on the reception (food, alcohol, venue), with the balance going on clothing (~$4,000), photography (~$4,000), entertainment (~$3,000), flowers (~$3,000), the ceremony (~$1,000) and miscellaneous items like the car, hair, makeup and…

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The Father-in-Law from Heaven

By Francine & Byron Pirola | March 12, 2015 |

When we marry, we not only gain a spouse, we also gain a family including a father-in-law. When we marry in the Christian faith we also get a heavenly Father-in-Law. BEFORE you start wondering which happy husband or wife is blessed with such a father-in-law – our own are pretty good, by the way –…

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Committed to Being Committed

By Francine & Byron Pirola | March 5, 2015 |

A friend of ours is fond of saying in relation to successful marriage, ‘it’s a matter of being committed to being committed.’ In other words, we have to be serious about our marriage commitment, willing to tough it out when it’s difficult and put to the test. There’s a great deal of wisdom to this…

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Do Catholics Have Better Sex?

By Francine & Byron Pirola | February 26, 2015 |

According to research by the Family Research Council, that’s a resounding ‘Yes!’ Drawing on data from a number of studies, devout, married Catholics have the best sex of any demographic group, says study author Patrick Fagan. He relied heavily on information from the National Health and Social Life Survey, conducted by the University of Chicago in 1992,…

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What is Commitment?

By Francine & Byron Pirola | February 25, 2015 |

A few years ago, we were giving a talk on chastity to a group of young people and some of them challenged us, saying that “sex before marriage was ok if you were in a committed relationship”. So we quizzed them about what defined a “committed relationship’. Universally, their answer was a measure of duration;…

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