The current struggle to defend and define marriage within our civil constitution demands a three-fold approach. We must educate our fellow citizens on the meaning and good of marriage. We must actively promote widespread participation among our fellow believers in the support of a marriage amendment. And most importantly, we must pray and offer sacrifice for the success of all endeavors that seek to protect and promote marriage.
I would also like to call upon all Catholics of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis to embrace Fridays as a particular day of prayer and sacrifice for the success of this most current struggle to defend marriage within our civil constitution. Without such deliberate prayers and sacrifices, our efforts will be in vain. But with God, all things are possible.
Much rides on the success of our struggle to defend marriage. May God bless our efforts, and our great state of Minnesota.
[Exerpts above are from the Nov. 21, 2011 letter of Archbishop John C. Nienstedt]
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Important resources related to the Marriage Amendment can be found at the following websites:
A prayer for marriage from the Archdiocese:
