Marriage and Family – Episode 4

Bio - Who are Stephen and Kari?

The family is the cornerstone of society, yet in today’s world it is constantly being threatened by the new currents of postmodernism. What is the Christian calling to live as wife, as husband, and as parent?

We discuss these issues with Kari and Stephen Gay, a couple married for eight years from Barrie , Ontario , and parents of four children.

Kari is a homemaker and part-time audiologist. She home-schools her four children aged 7.5 to 3 years. She also is a volunteer and leader of the Family Enrichment programs.

Stephen, a principal at a Catholic school, also volunteers with his wife Kari to run Family Enrichment programs.

• How do I see marriage fulfilling our responsibility to society?
  Read Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1601, 1603
• Do I realise that marriage is a sacrament?
  Read Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1641-1643
• What is the difference between marriage as a legal union and marriage as a sacrament?
  Read Catechism of the Catholic Church , 1626-1628, 1631-1632, 1639-1640
• What is the vocation of parenthood?
  Read Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1652-1654

• Catechism of the Catholic Church ,
  Article 7: The Sacrament of Matrimony
• Apostolic Exhortation of John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio, November 22, 1981
• Resources from the Pontifical Council for the Family
• Pastoral letter to Catholics in Canada on
  Redefining Marriage, February 9, 2005.