Growing in faith with your spouse

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For those that are married,do you feel you’ve grown in faith with one another ?
Both in the way you live out your lives together and in talking over together and learning?
Has it increased or decreased ?
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I admire my siblings and their spouses helping one another along ,can’t help feeling a wee bit of envy…well,let’s say wistfulness .It’s really beautiful to see.
 
My spouse didn’t grow in faith with me.
He provided an excellent, calm, peaceful, encouraging, non-pressured and non-chaotic environment for me to grow in faith, though.
In that respect, he was better than any other man I ever met, including the Catholic ones.
There’s a lot to be said for just being a rock solid steady guy.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
My spouse didn’t grow in faith with me.
He provided an excellent, calm, peaceful, encouraging, non-pressured and non-chaotic environment for me to grow in faith, though.
In that respect, he was better than any other man I ever met, including the Catholic ones.
There’s a lot to be said for just being a rock solid steady guy.
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I am grateful I am experiencing the same in my marriage. 🌷
 
Hubs and I were unevenly yoked when we were first married–both Catholic, but I was the more observant.
We have grown together in our faith but it was rocky for years in the beginning. And I didn’t know at the time how it would all play out…
 
Greenfields said:
do you feel you’ve grown in faith with one another ?
Both in the way you live out your lives together and in talking over together and learning?
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My late wife was a Buddhist, and a scholar of Buddhism. I was, and still am. a very active cradle Catholic, and an academic, too, though not in religion.

Learning about the depths of each other’s religion helped us both to understand our own. And raising two boys as dual Buddhist Catholics even more so. It also strengthened their own faith. Both are now in their twenties and very active in both traditions.

So even a couple who don’t share the same faith can help each other grow.

(And yes, Catholics are permitted to be Buddhists, and vice versa. There are even several Catholic priests who are Zen roshi’s (masters).)
 
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Yes.
Yes and yes.
Increased.
The answers had to be either one-word or just waaaaaay too long. If you want to narrow the questions a bit, I’m happy to try and answer some smaller ones. 🙂
 
LittleFlower said:
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Sources! We need sources. 🙃
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@LittleFlower, if you weren’t an Ozzie dear to my heart…It’s in “Crossing the threshold of Hope” by saint John Paul II. I can’t be more specific because I haven’t the book with me right now. But look at the index it’s clearly there. Apparently there were death threats leading up to to the pontiffs visit to Colomb because of that chapter. And the Buddhist scholars I met were “spot on” with his description. This does not invalidate the former posts about “matrimony” with believers of other faiths. It does however challenge the common misconception that you can be Catholic and “else” without incompatibility. Pardon, please, my french: that is bs!
 
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Crossing the threshold of Hope” by saint John Paul II.
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He quotes the Second Vatican Council as mentioning a “common soteriological root present in all religions”[6] though he seems to contradict that[7] by stating that “the Buddhist tradition and the methods deriving from it have an almost exclusively negative soteriology.”[8] and continuing “doctrines of salvation in Buddhism and Christianity are opposed.”[8] This has been judged by Buddhists as a misunderstanding of Buddhism.[9]
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From Crossing the Threshold of Hope - Wikipedia
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if you weren’t an Ozzie dear to my heart
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Feeling is mutual, but I do need those sources. 🌷
 
Yes and yes especially when we Convalidate our Marriage. My husband stop going to church after the priest said that we can’t take communion because were not married in church, It was sad coz last time he went to church 1994 that’s after the priest said we can’t take communion. I told him in our 25th Wedding Anniversary I’d like us to married in church and he promise me about it. We get our Convalidate Marriage last year 2017 it was so beautiful were my son our Best Man and my daughter our Maid of Honor after that wedding he don’t missed going to church and its not only our faith grows but our love grow more stronger. And for the second time we say I do not once but twice. I feel so blessed and loved. .And I’m so grateful for giving me such a loving husband
 
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You cannot serve two masters.
 
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That’s not how this works. Once a Catholic, always a Catholic.

Life has a lot of buts in it. It’s how people express themselves.
 
Well it quotes from the book, and I can’t get hold of the book. 😃 I did try!

Yes, the Church should definitely give the faithful answers!
 
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