These seven talks on marriage were given on July 11-12, 2014.

The speakers were Father Lawrence Smith and Father David Phillipson.

Below is a list of some of the topics covered.

• Sixty years of marriage without a murder!
• In favor of married priests
• Defining Holy Matrimony
• The perfectly flawed marriage ‘of George and Mathilda
• Deciding to be perfect, flaws and all
• Describing the husband and father
• What a Father ought to want
• Marriage and Parenthood, by Reverend Father T.J. Gerrard
• Arcanum, by Pope Leo Xlll
• Reestablishing Christendom in the Homes of Holy Families, by Father Smith
• When a woman loves a man (with the power of God)
• Sara prays for the Will of God
• Describing the wife and mother
• What a Mother ought to want
• In the beginning: Beauty and Brains & Adam’s Rib
• Getting Started
• Mixed Marriages:
• Second Marriages
• When things go wrong (Gertrude marries Superman)
• Why do marriages fail?
• Fixing what’s broken
• Divorce solves few problems and causes many problems (Avoiding Annulments)
• Junior’s advice to Dad on whom to marry
• Marital chastity
• Bearing and raising many children
• Discipline and what-not
• The Rosary
• The Mass
• In favor of ordaining a monastic laity

Treat your spouse like the stranger you met on your first date: There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place; and I tried to trace such a journey in a story I once wrote. It is, however, a relief to turn from that topic to another story that I never wrote. Like every book I never wrote~ It is by far the best book ever written It's only too probable that I shall never write-it, so I will use it symbolically here; for it was a symbol of the same truth. I conceived it as a romance of those vast valleys with sloping sides, like those along which the ancient White Horses of Wessex are scrawled along the flanks of the hills. It concerned some boy whose farm or cottage stood on such a slope, and who went on his travels to find something, such as the effigy and grave of some giant; and when he was far enough from home he looked back and saw that his own farm and kitchen-garden, shining flat on the hill-side like the colours and quarterings of a shield, were but parts of some such gigantic figure, on which he had always lived, but which was too large and too close to be seen. That, I think, is a true picture of the progress of any really independent intelligence today; and that is the point of this book. -- G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man