Marriage: The Mystery of Faithful Love

by Dietrich Von Hildebrand

Overview

How to have a stronger, happier marriage

These pages will give you what you need to make your marriage a source of profound happiness and lasting peace:

• Knowledge: You'll come to understand the nature of marriage and its superiority to "living together" and other temporary unions.
• Love: You'll learn to distinguish love from lust, infatuation, and other common counterfeits; and you'll discover the healing role it can play in the best - and bleakest - of marriages.
• Faith: You'll come to see how the sacramental marriage of Christians is the fulfillment and perfection of marriage, giving husband and wife what every spouse secretly longs for.

Especially today, this beautiful book - which reveals the sublime vocation of Christian marriage - is a must for anyone who is eager to live worthily this great mystery of love.

Marriage will show you:

• The one right motive for marrying - and the many wrong ones (some often accepted by Christians)
• The difference between the meaning of marriage and its purpose (and the dangers of confusing the two)
• The five ways in which married love differs from other loves
• Six counterfeit loves: what sometimes passes for love isn't
• The key role of will in sustaining love
• Your unhappy marriage: it may be a clear "call" from God
• How difficulties and suffering can deepen your marriage - and make you and your spouse better persons
• How marriage reveals God's love and presence
• How Christianity intensifies married love
• The meaning of marriage as a sacrament: its promises, its demands, and how it is a source of strength and grace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780918477002
Publisher:	Sophia Institute Press
Publication date:	11/01/1984
Pages:	116
Sales rank:	208,234
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Bob Trussell is the founder and retired chief executive officer of Tempur-Pedic International, Inc., and was vice chairman of the board from 2002 to 2022. Tempur-Pedic acquired Sealy corporation in 2012 and is now known as Tempur Sealy. Tempur-Pedic began as a startup company in 1992 and has nearly five billion dollars a year in worldwide sales. Mr. Trussell successfully employed advertising media and public relations to spread the Tempur-Pedic story. He took the company public in 2003, where it trades on the NYSE as “TPX.” In 2006, he retired as CEO of Tempur-Pedic to serve Christ full-time by using the media for evangelization. He is currently the president of Clean Media, a digital advertising platform catering to Catholic, general Christian, and secular websites. Mr. Trussell received a B.S. degree from Marquette University in 1974. He is chairman of Catholics Come Home (a Catholic evangelization nonprofit) and Virtue Media (a Catholic, pro-life media apostolate), and former cha