Cor ad Cor — Marriage Quest

I want to start an anonymous prayer group for all Catholics who are seeking marriage. For the moment, I am calling it "Cor ad Cor," from John Henry Newman's slogan when he became a cardinal: "Cor ad cor loquitur," "heart speaks to heart."

The only requirements for membership are:

1) a desire to serve God through the vocation of marriage;

2) the willingness to pray each day for the preservation, maturation, and fulfillment of the vocations of all of the other members of the group.

The desire to marry is natural and good

When God created male and female, He looked at them standing before Him, naked and unashamed, and he said of their whole human being, bodies-informed-by-souls, that they were "very good" (Gen 1:31). The vocation to marriage is fundamental to all other vocations in the church because the celibate forms of love of God cannot reproduce themselves without the vocations of mothers and fathers. We need new children of God, and they come from marital union.