Marriage Is A Great Gift

Homily of Fr. Mike O'Connor from Mass on May 24, 2024 at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, MS
Referenced Readings:
Jas 5:9-12
Mk 10:1-12
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[@user-sz1sc7ni6v]

My husband and I will celebrate 55 years married next Friday. We have 3 wonderful sons, each married 25 years or more, 7 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren and one on the way!! God is good!! He has blessed us tremendously!! Praise Be to God!!!

[@beautifulpeacock4734]

God is good, God is great, God is everything! Blessed be God forever! May God bless your family with more, and peace always.

[@liasosa4100]

Thank you Fr Mike, profound words to those going to difficult times. Thank you for your wisdom as always.

[@eileengonzalez9082]

🙏 We celebrated 25 years this past January. May God continue to bless and strengthen our union ❤

[@janmlynarski5919]

I was married 29 years. It was very rough but when you’re afraid of your husband and he’s into a sin of the flesh, I divorced. I wish everyday I was married as I never wanted to divorce. I am healthier and happier though and I worked on it with my whole heart for many years. Guess it wasn’t meant to be. God guided me and He daily helps me.

[@maryannramirez-ug9lk]

I also was in the same situation. I did everything possible to stay but, it was an unsafe situation.

[@210SAi]

Separation is allowed. Remarriage is not. There’s a huge difference between separating and starting another relationship

[@susanlajoie5085]

Lord have mercy on us😢

[@cliffbarber1642]

My wife and I will celebrate 27 years of marriage tomorrow 25th May. Someone gave me a piece of advice on how to work through the up's and down's and challenges of marriage and he said "Let God be the source of love in your marriage." Someone else told me that a good marriage is compromised of two "good forgivers".

[@martaibelieve]

I have never been married ..since I was a child I knew that ..I can t explain,I just felt that ..I m married to Jesus❤Always forever♥️

[@alexmburu830]

Amen

[@watermain48]

Thank you Fr. Mike. After more than fifty years of being married I can tell you that it does, indeed, take two to tango.

[@mariettatrapani291]

Jesus Also Said Not Everyone Could Marry: Not Everyone Could Accept This Word: Matthew -19:11-21 - Not Everyone is Mature Enough to Live a Married Life: It Requires a Certain Aptitude and Grace Marriage Isn't for Everyone. Some from Birth Seemingly never give Marriage a thought. Others never get Asked or Accepted. And Some Decide Not to Get Married for Kingdom Reasons. But if you're Capable of Growing into the Largeness of Marriage Do It. Thank You Rev. Mike O'Connor & God Bless! ⛪

[@blancamorales3605]

We celebrated our 55 years anniversary together 5children4 grandchildren and we lost our daughter Catherine 17 in 1992 and Iris 48 years old 2022 And our lord has kept us together ❤

[@ifym5455]

Thank God for 55 years but my heart aches for you and your spouse and the 2 children that you have lost. I’m not married or have kids but I can’t even imagine the grief that you have experienced. Yet still you and your spouse have stayed together when such tragedies would have driven people apart. “Together or for worse” I believe are those marriage vows. May God continue to bless your marriage and your family in Jesus mighty name, Amen 🙏🏾

[@dinakudlack3594]

AMEN❤️🙏

[@NedJanelGarber]

Thank you, Father, for this important reminder. God bless us all today.

[@7Bubbly]

Amen.... Praise Almighty God... Thank you Father Mike

[@Roadapple]

The more selfish you are the harder it is to stay married. Thank you Father for your wonderful homilies.

[@jacktracy8356]

1 Timothy 4:1 KJV "Now the SPIRIT speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which GOD has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."

[@Msc762]

Praying that the Philippines will not allow divorce .

[@GlorifytheLORDwithme]

Thank you for saying "it IS possible to stay married." Folks really don't know this. And thank you for saying "you're not free to remarry if you're divorced." Folks don't know this either. We (Christians) need to better communicate these things to school-age young folks. So they know it later.

[@cnyphotovideo]

Amen. Thank you Fr. Mike.

[@robertallen7186]

Thank you Fr. Mike, for preaching about the vocation of marriage. I would love to hear your give a Sunday sermon (or one of your podcasts) of the vocation of the priesthood. I don't know how it is around the word but the US priests infrequently talk about the priesthood. Why is that ? Bob in Grand Rapids, MI

[@user-zn6xw2vp8d]

🙏 Amen 🙏 Salve Maria 🙏

[@Marekcatholic]

Yes Father, marriage is possible. But how difficult it is if a person is sort of "broken" in some way. . Im saying it with sadness, because even in my family of origin there are many divorces .God bless Father.

[@peggyhawkinson3061]

We’ll done, Father…difficult sermon…great delivery!

[@HumilityisaVirtue]

Father Mike, marriage is possible... even after 52 years and some difficult times. We tell this to youngsters all the time. It's kind of funny how things work out. You see, there are times I wish I would have been a priest.

[@JWellsUp]

Not everyone is made for marriage. Not everyone can handle being chaste. Takes discipline and lots of self denial. I feel for that couple who’s getting divorced. Perhaps her Baptist husband wasn’t putting up with her converting to Catholicism and the relationship went south. But she is concerned about her salvation and as she should be. Many go into marriage and find out later on that the person they are with wasn’t the one they met and want out. Many do it to satisfy their sexual appetite. Or to combine their salaries. Whatever the reason, if the reason wasn’t because either cared about each other and desired the best not for their self but for their partner built upon Jesus Christ then it won’t work out.

[@ScottAguilar-wi1zu]

Marriage is an arrest under law lol albeit if you get a good one :)