{"title":"Fulton Sheen: Love, Marriage, and the Human Person","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"three-to-get-married","title":"Three to Get Married","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Fulton J. Sheen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Willed by God in the very act of creation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e, marriage and the family are interiorly ordained to fulfillment in Christ…” Thirty years before these words appeared in Pope St. John Paul II’s \u003ci\u003eFamiliaris consortio\u003c\/i\u003e, Fulton J. Sheen offered to the Church and the world \u003ci\u003eThree to Get Married\u003c\/i\u003e: a profound yet accessible articulation of this selfsame Christian vision of love and marriage. “Love is trinity; sex is duality,” Bishop Sheen avers: love and marriage elevate sexuality into a life-giving, life-affirming covenant, because love and marriage are ordained by God to just that purpose. “The ultimate reason why it takes three to make love is that God is Love, and His Love is Triune.” Marriage brings this mystery to light brilliantly: lover, beloved, and love are present in the relationships between husband and wife and God and between children, mother, and father—and in these capacities the human person and human society attain their full flourishing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn \u003c\/i\u003e[\u003ci\u003emarriage\u003c\/i\u003e], \u003ci\u003ethe dream of the bride and groom for eternal happiness really \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ecomes true, not in themselves alone, but through themselves. Now they love \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eeach other not as they dreamed they would, but as God dreamed they would. \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFulton J. Sheen)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eA milestone in Christian philosophy and pastoral counsel, \u003ci\u003eThree to Get Married \u003c\/i\u003eis a clarion call to the truth, goodness and beauty of human love within the elevated status of Christian marriage and family, in which God serves as the sure and sustaining force of that unity which no man shall put asunder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFulton J. Sheen\u003c\/b\u003e (1895–1979) was one of the most renowned Catholic priests of the twentieth century. An eminent scholar, prolific author, and natural entertainer, Sheen provided insight into the truth and beauty of the Catholic faith for millions around the world through his scores of books and countless radio and television programs. His cause for canonization was opened in 2002, and in 2012 Pope Benedict XVI declared him “Venerable.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 290pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685951887\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44045786054875,"sku":"978-1685951887","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/products\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--843.jpg?v=1680656716"},{"product_id":"love","title":"Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Fulton J. Sheen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Saint John the Evangelist\u003c\/b\u003e writes that “love has no room for fear,” he has in mind only one kind of love: perfect love, the love of God. And this love, as Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen makes plain, is the source of all other love worthy of the name, the opening salvo in the conversation of charity, and the one invitation absolutely worthy of a wholehearted response. In these twenty-eight addresses, Archbishop Sheen expounds upon the meaning of love: the love of God who created man out of love, then redeemed him and sanctified him into the Divine life by that same love; the love of husband and wife; the love of family—father, mother, child; the love of priest and religious for souls; the love of Christians for the Church; the love of each and every human being which is a form of love in truth, which is not self-seeking but at the service of others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eCombining addresses originally published in the volumes \u003ci\u003eLove on Pilgrimage \u003c\/i\u003e(1946) and \u003ci\u003eThe Love That Waits for You \u003c\/i\u003e(1949), \u003ci\u003eLove \u003c\/i\u003eshows the way out of the devil’s trap of hatred and greed, envy and misery—and it is the way of divine Love, incarnated in Jesus Christ, who offers to every man and woman an escape into Truth and Life, if they will but follow Him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003eWhat keeps us back most from the fire of Love? Is it our doubts or is it our behavior? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(Fulton J. Sheen)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFulton J. Sheen \u003c\/b\u003e(1895–1979) was one of the most renowned Catholic priests of the twentieth century. An eminent scholar, prolific author, and natural entertainer, Sheen provided insight into the truth and beauty of the Catholic faith for millions around the world through his scores of books and countless radio and television programs. 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Sheen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt the heart of the sun, \u003c\/b\u003ean immensely vast amount of energy is being set free. In the twentieth century, mankind seized this power for itself, developing atomic and nuclear energy. As with so many of man’s devices, these forces had the ability to improve life—or to destroy it. On May 13, 1917, three Portuguese children were visited by a woman “clothed in white, brighter than the sun.” The woman came to give a warning; she came to give hope. That hope is herself, Our Lady, the Mother of God and Mother of the world. In these twelve addresses, originally delivered from January 7, 1951, to March 25, 1951, Fulton J. Sheen meditates on Mary, the new Eve, and the hope she offers as the link between nature and grace, “the one assurance that we need not be destroyed, for the seat of all atomic fission, the sun, is her toy and plaything. 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