Role Models for Marriage

By Francine & Byron Pirola | June 13, 2025 |

  How can we inspire young people to embrace stable, loving marriages when so many grow up without seeing them?  We’ve all heard stories that stop us in our tracks. One that sticks with us is about a teacher in an inner-city U.S. primary school who discovered her students didn’t know what a wedding was.…

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Leaving and Cleaving is Complicated!

By Francine & Byron Pirola | May 30, 2025 |

Origin Families and their Impact  “A man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.” (Gen 2:24)  On our wedding day, we joyfully left our family homes to begin our married life together. Living and worshipping in the same parish, with similar ethnic heritage and family structure,…

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