Posted on 04/28/2011 3:38:12 PM PDT by Shannon503
Did you ever notice that there is a different tone and feel to a wedding and the celebration that follows when a couple has been living together prior to taking their vows? Something is missing. Oh, it’s not the guests, the music, the cake, or the decorations. There is always plenty of that to go around. But something is lacking. I will go so far as to say that there is a special look that is absent in the way a co-habitating bride and groom even look at each other. There is no anticipation and no excitement of a new ‘beginning’. Cohabitation makes a mockery of a sacred vow and sacrament, and leaves the bride and groom without that tangible sense of the life-long vocation and commitment that they are entering into. Some 750 million people flocked to their televisions to watch the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981. This was in a time when cohabitation would have been a royal embarrassment. Despite an increase of accessibility to view the ceremony, is it possible that the widespread knowledge that the Royal Couple, Prince William and Kate, have been cohabitating for 8 years, is the reason for America’s notable lack of excitement about this royal wedding? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/23/world/europe/23royals.html Where is the mention or outrage of this public scandal and embarrassment? The Dallas Morning News of April 9 captured the mood well when reporting “William and Kate’s cohabitation elicits a shrug.” Is this a clear example that children grow up and live what they learned? Or are the sins of the father (Prince Charles’ long accepted affair with Camilla) being visited upon the son (Prince William)? It is, in fact, a myth that cohabitation is a good way to determine compatibility. Switching over to a full commitment after finally taking marriage vows can be difficult if not impossible after a couple lives together first. . The US Bureau of Census (2000) tells us that 60-75% of first marriages are now preceded by cohabitation. A Canadian Study (Wu, 2000) found that prior cohabitation doubles the chances that a marriage would end in divorce. This may explain the utter chaos we see today within society and the Church. Living together before marriage has a profound, long term effect upon a couple’s relationship and marriage. Years of study and actual statistics from both secular and religious sources have confirmed that the list of negatives include: decreased premarital satisfaction, decreased sexual satisfaction after marriage, a heightened acceptance of divorce, increase in the likelihood that there will be sexual infidelity, an increase in violence in the relationship, and an added adverse effect on the couple’s desire to have many children. It is not unreasonable to question how 8 years of cohabitation did not render a pregnancy unless Kate is using some form of contraception. Knowing what we do about the effects of hormonal contraception on a woman’s body, (and the fact that long term use often allows fertilization but actually thins out the lining of the uterus lining causing a spontaneous abortion masked as a heavy period) could it be possible that several royal embryos have already been aborted? It is broadly accepted by the mainstream media and young people today that “everybody lives together”. Selfish behavior (such as the sexual gratification sought in cohabitation and the use of contraception) always renders consequences. Sadly, many young couples don’t even know why they shouldn’t ‘shack up’. It was a great blessing recently when Archbishop Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe, New Mexico issued his r courageous Pastoral letter, “Pastoral care of couples who are cohabitating” which is gaining widespread circulation: “We have three groups of people who are living contrary to the Gospel teaching on marriage: those who cohabit; those who have a merely civil union with no previous marriage; and those who have a civil union who were married before. These people are objectively living in a state of mortal sin and may not receive Holy Communion. They are in great spiritual danger. At the best - and this is, sadly, often the case - they are ignorant of God’s plan for man and woman. At the worst, they are contemptuous of God’s commandments and His sacraments…… Christ our Lord loves all these people and wishes to save them - not by ignoring their sin, or calling evil good, but by repentance and helping them to change their lives in accordance with His teaching. “ http://www.speroforum.com/a/52324/A-Catholic-bishop-offers-advice-to-unmarried-cohabiting-couples This high profile royal couple who willingly or unknowingly lives in this state of moral confusion, implores each of us to fall to our knees—not to exult and honor the Royal Couple as the British media will—but instead to pray for them. Archbishop Sheehan’s Pastoral letter carries a great reminder to all couples who seek to “make right” their living situations. Through the grace of God there lies eternal hope for the restoration of the sacred institution of Marriage. The message to this generation is loud and clear and quite undeniable: Cohabitation is a Royal mistake. Jenn Giroux is the founder and former Executive Director of HLI America. She and her husband, Dan, reside in Cincinnati, Ohio and have 9 children. For more go to www.jenngiroux.com
Royals are now low class. 8 years.....embarrassing.
Paragraphs, perhaps?
You have a problem with a ‘wall of words’ or something? lol
Paragraphs are our friends.
How do they know that Kate and Will co-habitated? Please prove that they did. Kate seems excited enough that she is marrying a future king and it seems that Will is smitten with her. Maybe I don’t know enough.
But they won't pick you up at the airport.
I would have been at least a little impressed if the princess-to-be had stayed in the Tower of London the night prior to the wedding
That’s nothing.
what about the brides and grooms that already have a baby together?
Nothing wrong with the ye olde chastity belt.
Block of text crits you for 5000 moral decay damage
LOL!
On the reverse of things William is to be given credit for staying with the woman he loved instead of marrying a younger virgin and then pining away for Kate the way Chucky did for horse face.
The royal cohabitation has been widely reported. But shacking up is so common these days that it was hardly noticed.
Besides, Prince Charles and Lady Di, with their abysmal divorce and multiple affairs, already poisoned that well.
They lived together in college and have been living together for the last several years.
That seems dangerous...
Lol.
Cohabited.
Because it has been reported in all media for years. The prince has freely talked about it.
I hate to be the one to inform you that Prince Charles and Diana were effing like bunnies before the sacred nups. He was sneaking her on trains, boats etc. Sorry to burst your bubble.
That saddens me. Too bad. Hope the marriage will last until one of them dies.
A lump in his pants and wet panties for her!
ANTICIPATION!!
Thanks for the correction!
Excellent point!
Readability. ;-)
Agreed.
No one has ever accused the royals of being concerned with morality. This week I have seen Brits giving various Americans lessons on how to act in the prescence of their royals and how one should address the royals. Well, in the opinion of this freeborn American, any group of people who hold themselves above others, demanding reverential and subservient treatment by virtue of their DNA, are self-deluded filth. The only thing more sad than these royals are the many enablers who go along with the charade.
yeah it’s been pretty much all over the news
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/40253368/ns/today-today_people/
What’s the old saying???? Formatting is your friend...
This wedding is totally NON BIBLICAL isn't it.
One of my neighbors says she always misses the elephants in these European things. No wedding is really good unless the groom stops by to pick up the bride with an elephant.
BTW, this living together stuff ~ rejoice ~ they're getting married.
INFIDELS. STONE THEM. /s
It substantially reduced the security costs during their courtship.
I can’t believe the bride has the nerve to wear white.
If you live in UK and don't like the royal stuff you can go back home to Pakistan, or maybe emigrate to America.
Lol! And thanks for that very true statement.
Prince William appears to be astonishingly normal, unlike his father.
Diana can be proud of her sons, with or without cohabitation.
How do you know she's wearing white? I think the wedding dress is a big secret. Could be as black as the sin she's committed. :)
How do you know she's wearing white? I think the wedding dress is a big secret. Could be as black as the sin she's committed. :)
Did you ever notice that there is a different tone and feel to a wedding and the celebration that follows when a couple has been living together prior to taking their vows? Something is missing. Oh, it’s not the guests, the music, the cake, or the decorations. There is always plenty of that to go around. But something is lacking. I will go so far as to say that there is a special look that is absent in the way a cohabitating bride and groom even look at each other. There is no anticipation and no excitement of a new ‘beginning’. Cohabitation makes a mockery of a sacred vow and sacrament, and leaves the bride and groom without that tangible sense of the life-long vocation and commitment that they are entering into.
Some 750 million people flocked to their televisions to watch the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981. This was in a time when cohabitation would have been a royal embarrassment. Despite an increase of accessibility to view the ceremony, is it possible that the widespread knowledge that the Royal Couple, Prince William and Kate, have been cohabitating for 8 years, is the reason for America’s notable lack of excitement about this royal wedding?
Click here for NY Times article reference.
Where is the mention or outrage of this public scandal and embarrassment? The Dallas Morning News of April 9 captured the mood well when reporting “William and Kate’s cohabitation elicits a shrug.” Is this a clear example that children grow up and live what they learned? Or are the sins of the father (Prince Charles’ long accepted affair with Camilla) being visited upon the son (Prince William)? It is, in fact, a myth that cohabitation is a good way to determine compatibility. Switching over to a full commitment after finally taking marriage vows can be difficult if not impossible after a couple lives together first. .
The US Bureau of Census (2000) tells us that 60-75% of first marriages are now preceded by cohabitation. A Canadian Study (Wu, 2000) found that prior cohabitation doubles the chances that a marriage would end in divorce. This may explain the utter chaos we see today within society and the Church. Living together before marriage has a profound, long term effect upon a couple’s relationship and marriage. Years of study and actual statistics from both secular and religious sources have confirmed that the list of negatives include: decreased premarital satisfaction, decreased sexual satisfaction after marriage, a heightened acceptance of divorce, increase in the likelihood that there will be sexual infidelity, an increase in violence in the relationship, and an added adverse effect on the couple’s desire to have many children. It is not unreasonable to question how 8 years of cohabitation did not render a pregnancy unless Kate is using some form of contraception. Knowing what we do about the effects of hormonal contraception on a woman’s body, (and the fact that long term use often allows fertilization but actually thins out the lining of the uterus lining causing a spontaneous abortion masked as a heavy period) could it be possible that several royal embryos have already been aborted?
It is broadly accepted by the mainstream media and young people today that “everybody lives together”. Selfish behavior (such as the sexual gratification sought in cohabitation and the use of contraception) always renders consequences. Sadly, many young couples don’t even know why they shouldn’t ‘shack up’. It was a great blessing recently when Archbishop Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe, New Mexico issued his r courageous Pastoral letter, “Pastoral care of couples who are cohabitating” which is gaining widespread circulation: “We have three groups of people who are living contrary to the Gospel teaching on marriage: those who cohabit; those who have a merely civil union with no previous marriage; and those who have a civil union who were married before. These people are objectively living in a state of mortal sin and may not receive Holy Communion. They are in great spiritual danger. At the best - and this is, sadly, often the case - they are ignorant of God’s plan for man and woman. At the worst, they are contemptuous of God’s commandments and His sacraments…… Christ our Lord loves all these people and wishes to save them - not by ignoring their sin, or calling evil good, but by repentance and helping them to change their lives in accordance with His teaching.
Click here for Bishop's advice to unmarried-cohabiting couples
This high profile royal couple who willingly or unknowingly lives in this state of moral confusion, implores each of us to fall to our knees—not to exult and honor the Royal Couple as the British media will—but instead to pray for them. Archbishop Sheehan’s Pastoral letter carries a great reminder to all couples who seek to “make right” their living situations. Through the grace of God there lies eternal hope for the restoration of the sacred institution of Marriage. The message to this generation is loud and clear and quite undeniable: Cohabitation is a Royal mistake. Did you ever notice that there is a different tone and feel to a wedding and the celebration that follows when a couple has been living together prior to taking their vows? Something is missing. Oh, it’s not the guests, the music, the cake, or the decorations. There is always plenty of that to go around. But something is lacking. I will go so far as to say that there is a special look that is absent in the way a cohabitating bride and groom even look at each other. There is no anticipation and no excitement of a new ‘beginning’. Cohabitation makes a mockery of a sacred vow and sacrament, and leaves the bride and groom without that tangible sense of the life-long vocation and commitment that they are entering into. Some 750 million people flocked to their televisions to watch the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981. This was in a time when cohabitation would have been a royal embarrassment. Despite an increase of accessibility to view the ceremony, is it possible that the widespread knowledge that the Royal Couple, Prince William and Kate, have been cohabitating for 8 years, is the reason for America’s notable lack of excitement about this royal wedding?
Click here for NY Times story.
Where is the mention or outrage of this public scandal and embarrassment? The Dallas Morning News of April 9 captured the mood well when it reported an article headlined by “William and Kate’s cohabitation elicits a shrug.” Is this a clear example that children grow up and live what they learned? Or are the sins of the father (Prince Charles’ long accepted affair with Camilla) being visited upon the son (Prince William)? It is, in fact, a myth that cohabitation is a good way to determine compatibility. Switching over to a full commitment after finally taking marriage vows can be difficult if not impossible after a couple lives together first. . The US Bureau of Census (2000) tells us that 60-75% of first marriages are now preceded by cohabitation. A Canadian Study (Wu, 2000) found that prior cohabitation doubles the chances that a marriage would end in divorce. This may explain the utter chaos we see today within society and the Church. Living together before marriage has a profound, long term effect upon a couple’s relationship and marriage. Years of study and actual statistics from both secular and religious sources have confirmed that the list of negatives include: decreased premarital satisfaction, decreased sexual satisfaction after marriage, a heightened acceptance of divorce, increase in the likelihood that there will be sexual infidelity, an increase in violence in the relationship, and an added adverse effect on the couple’s desire to have many children.
It is not unreasonable to question how 8 years of cohabitation did not render a pregnancy unless Kate is using some form of contraception. Knowing what we do about the effects of hormonal contraception on a woman’s body, (and the fact that long term use often allows fertilization but actually thins out the lining of the uterus lining causing a spontaneous abortion masked as a heavy period) could it be possible that several royal embryos have already been aborted? Broadly accepted by the mainstream media and young people today is that “everybody lives together”. Selfish behavior (such as the sexual gratification sought in cohabitation and the use of contraception) always renders consequences. Sadly, many young couples don’t even know why they shouldn’t ‘shack up’. It was a great blessing recently when Archbishop Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe, New Mexico issued his courageous Pastoral letter, “Pastoral care of couples who are cohabitating” which is gaining widespread circulation: “We have three groups of people who are living contrary to the Gospel teaching on marriage: those who cohabit; those who have a merely civil union with no previous marriage; and those who have a civil union who were married before. These people are objectively living in a state of mortal sin and may not receive Holy Communion. They are in great spiritual danger. At the best - and this is, sadly, often the case - they are ignorant of God’s plan for man and woman. At the worst, they are contemptuous of God’s commandments.
Christ our Lord loves all these people and wishes to save them - not by ignoring their sin, or calling evil good, but by repentance and helping them to change their lives in accordance with His teaching.
Click here for more Bishop advice.
This high profile royal couple who willingly or unknowingly lives in this state of moral confusion, implores each of us to fall to our knees—not to exult and honor the Royal Couple as the British media will—but instead to pray for them. Archbishop Sheehan’s Pastoral letter carries a great reminder to all couples who seek to “make right” their living situations. Through the grace of God there lies eternal hope for the restoration of the sacred institution of Marriage. The message to this generation is loud and clear and quite undeniable: Cohabitation is a Royal mistake.
P.S. Just trying to help with a little editing.
Whats the saying? “Its good to be the king!”
But will they help you move a body?
Spoken like an American.
Like the Texas cow hand said when the British visitor asked, “Excuse me but where might I find your master?”, the Texan replied, “the son’bitch ain’t been born yet.”
I merely gave my opinion of the entire “royal” institution. I really don’t care what they do. They may do as they please in their country. However, they are spilling over into ours. I recently took umbrage when a Canadian friend who was visiting the U.S. expected me to speak of the royals with deference. Rubbish!
You can bet our Founders wouldn’t like to know that the royals are a thing of fawning entertainment, and in some cases envy and longing, for American women and little girls.
Well, you know what to do eh!
yOU COULDN’T HAVE COPIED IT ANY OTHER WAY???
DUMB, JUST DUMB.
Have a little respect for the royals, will you? I think they can trace their pedigree all the way back to William the Bastard, who seized the throne in 1066. Not to mention that it took many murders, drawings and quarterings, wars, and other atrocities to make sure the right DNA was selected. Some animals are more equal than others.
Oh yeah...sure.
Her son has been screwing the future maybe Queen for 8 yrs and now puts on this charade....William is definitely the son of Wacko Diana and the Inadequate Charles.
What a bunch of total phonies! No wonder there have been revolutions!
First, let us distinguish between sex outside of marriage without cohabiting and living together (assuming in a sexual relationship). They are the exact same sins only with the added element of being public and a scandal. So throw hundreds of thousands into the mix. A sin is a sin. And it doesn't matter what historical period or how the world views it.
A public sin such as this sets a bad example to young people especially and unbelievers.
Practically every couple in my RCIA class were already cohabiting. Practically everybody does it these days or has sex before marriage whether they cohabit or not. It does seem that sex before marriage without true contrition may increase the likelihood of an unhappy marriage or divorce. So may those of us who have strayed be given the grace of repentance and forgiveness if we haven't already.
Some marriages work well whether sex before or not, and some don't. So I look forward to hopefully a network will carry it tomorrow via the internet so I will be able to watch at least part of it. She will be one gorgeous bride and seems like a lovely person, as Diana was other than whatever improprieties she engaged in, may she rest in peace.
I wish the bride and groom every possible happiness, a fruitful marriage, and many happy years together. And may God bless, preserve and guide them.
No lie -- I didn't know until reading this article that they lived together. That's how little I pay attention to "celebrity" gossip. Though I'm am planning to watch the nuptials.
Now, when I was 14, I could recite any and all facts about Chuck & Di and the entire royal clan.
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