Note: This meeting is based on the pamphlet "Do You Love Me?" available for purchase at a nominal cost from Sophia Institute Press. Bulk copies are also available at a discounted rate through the publisher at [email protected]. Copies should be purchased and distributed to the men at the preceding meeting so they have time to read and reflect before the session.Join us for our upcoming meeting! This pre-Valentine’s Day session promises to be EXTRA special!
We ask that you do the following, before the meeting, in preparation for this gathering:
- Obtain the pamphlet referenced below, as much of our discussion will be centered around your thoughts on it. The pamphlet, entitled “Do You Love Me?” — from Sophia Institute Press, a terrific Catholic publisher — is a poignant story sure to hit a responsive chord with you, so, please take a few minutes to read it. You can find more information about it at the bottom of this message.
- Pose this “CHALLENGE” question to your wife: “How do you characterize our marriage, and what can I do to become a better husband?”
- Review these Scripture references:
- Proverbs 31: 11; 28 & 31 as it sets forth a husband’s role, and
- Ephesians 5:21-33 which suggests a key principle for a great marriage, and
- 1 Cor 13: 4 – 7 a very familiar reading that should never get old!
Remember to “REACH OUT” to a friend and invite him to come along with you!
More about “Do You Love Me?” from the publisher’s web site:
In the Fall of 1987, a local Catholic men’s group asked publisher John Barger to give a talk at their monthly breakfast meeting.
John chose to speak in some detail about his life with Susan, his wife of fifteen years, who had died of cancer just a few months before, leaving John with seven children to care for.
In the talk, which he entitled “Do You Love Me?,” John spoke frankly of his own failings and the sorrow and anger that those failings had provoked in Susan long before her cancer was diagnosed, causing their marriage to become a battleground.
But John also offered simple, spiritual remedies for those failings — remedies which, he said, any man or woman could use to heal the wounds that most couples suffer in marriage, and even to transform any marriage into a covenant of love…
Since that morning late in 1987, “Do You Love Me?” has helped more than 100,000 couples, and has been published in dozens of newspapers and magazines around the world, and broadcast on a number of national radio shows.
It will help your marriage, too.