KC’s production promotes vocation to marriage

In keeping with their commitment to promote a proper understanding of the dignity of each vocation in the Christian life - marriage, priesthood, religious life, and lay single life in the world - the Knights of Columbus have just released a half-hour long video/DVD, The Vocation to Marriage: Vocation to Love and Service of Life. This program complements The Vocation to the Priesthood, released by the Knights last year.

The Vocation to Marriage: Vocation to Love and Service of Life profiles a broad spectrum of married couples, of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, who have been married for three to fifty years. Short interviews with these couples give glimpses into their marriages and family life. All the couples interviewed are loving, prayerful and reflective people, who appreciate marriage as a sacramental communion of love and life.

It clearly communicates the meaning of the marriage vows, and presents Christian marriage and family life as the domestic church. The program also features brief reflections from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, various saints, Pope John Paul II, Wendell Berry, and Dorothy Day.

This Knights of Columbus production is recommended for use in Catholic high school and religious education courses about marriage, in campus ministry and adult formation programs, and for marriage preparation and enrichment.

Available in VHS or DVD format, at $5 each, it can be ordered from the Department of Fraternal Services, at (203)752-4270; email: cheryl.fusco@kofc.org.

It is also available for rental from the New Ulm Diocesan Office of Communications/Media Resource Center, (507) 233-5330; email: jweicherding@dnu.org.