Marriage graces

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I was watching EWTN yesterday and they were talking about Catholic home schooling. The woman said that in the sacrament of Marriage, all graces needed for home schooling are given. What about a Catholic and non-Catholic marriage? I don’t know if anyone knows anything about this or not.

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I didn’t see the show, so I don’t know the context or her exact words. But I would be very cautious about taking someone’s opinion as Catholic teaching.

God always gives us the graces needed to accomplish whatever He is asking of us. Sounds like this woman believes that ALL Catholics should be home schooling - that’s a pretty extreme view and not at all Catholic teaching.

If God is calling someone to home school, He will grant the graces and pave the path to make it not only possible but effective. It doesn’t matter whether that person is Catholic or not, nor to whom they are married. When God has a plan for us, He grants the grace to make it possible.

I’ve known amazingly holy Catholics who send their children to private or public schools, and many who home school. What is important is to remain receptive to God’s leading. He knows what He has planned for our children, and He knows what path is most necessary for our children’s formative years to prepare them for this path.

God bless you.
 
billcu1 said:
I was watching EWTN yesterday and they were talking about Catholic home schooling. The woman said that in the sacrament of Marriage, all graces needed for home schooling are given. What about a Catholic and non-Catholic marriage? I don’t know if anyone knows anything about this or not.

Bill
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I didn’t see the show either, but I would assume that the guest (or host) on the show was making a jump in conclusions since I believe the catechism says that the graces for marriage would cover the graces needed for raising up a child. I’m not sure about that though. I’d have to look it up, but I thought I read that once.
 
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I didn’t see the show, so I don’t know the context or her exact words. But I would be very cautious about taking someone’s opinion as Catholic teaching.

God always gives us the graces needed to accomplish whatever He is asking of us. Sounds like this woman believes that ALL Catholics should be home schooling - that’s a pretty extreme view and not at all Catholic teaching.

If God is calling someone to home school, He will grant the graces and pave the path to make it not only possible but effective. It doesn’t matter whether that person is Catholic or not, nor to whom they are married. When God has a plan for us, He grants the grace to make it possible.

I’ve known amazingly holy Catholics who send their children to private or public schools, and many who home school. What is important is to remain receptive to God’s leading. He knows what He has planned for our children, and He knows what path is most necessary for our children’s formative years to prepare them for this path.

God bless you.
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8 PM EDT. I saw a man his last name was “Apostali” or something like that. I am assuming a Catholic name. He looked much like the late Fr. Groschel. The woman talking was laity that’s for sure.

Bill
 
A Catholic who marries a baptized non-Catholic receives, ipso facto, the sacrament of marriage, and any graces granted by the sacrament to a couple of married Catholics would flow in the same way to the married non-Catholics. A Catholic who marries an unbaptized person is truly married but has not received the sacrament, and thus none its specific graces.

But a grace enabling one to home school is not an enumerated effect of the sacrament and, as others have pointed out, would depend upon making an argumentative leap to the claim that *all *people (the grace of this sacrament enables us to live out the natural institution of marriage as we ought to in Christ) are supposed to be home schooling.
 
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A Catholic who marries a baptized non-Catholic receives, ipso facto, the sacrament of marriage, and any graces granted by the sacrament to a couple of married Catholics would flow in the same way to the married non-Catholics. A Catholic who marries an unbaptized person is truly married but has not received the sacrament, and thus none its specific graces.

But a grace enabling one to home school is not an enumerated effect of the sacrament and, as others have pointed out, would depend upon making an argumentative leap to the claim that *all *people (the grace of this sacrament enables us to live out the natural institution of marriage as we ought to in Christ) are supposed to be home schooling.
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Ok. I knew in the sacrament you received all graces you needed. I have also heard that they are all through Mary. Of whom all graces flow via Christ from God. To my understanding.
 
I was curious so I found the program and have a quote:
…because [unintelligible] by the sacrament of marriage a parent is given every grace they need to educate their child, so God will give the graces to any parent who really wants to do this. He will show a way, especially through prayer, how to do this.
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I think she means well but that’s a real stretch. It’s a nice idea but it’s not church teaching or realistic if she thinks “any parent who really wants to” home school will be able to do so.

This is not the first time I’ve heard something like this. Way back (I mean waaaaaay back) when Catholicity had a message board/forum, I was told that parents who had a sacramental marriage had the grace to teach the Catholic faith to their children. Compare the statements; they are very similar and both are wrong. Unless one wants to question the sacramentality of my parents’ marriage and I think prudence and charity prohibit doing so.
 
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