Plain Talks on Marriage

Fulgence Meyer

9781505121124

88 pages

St. Benedict Press LLC

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Overview

“A good Catholic man loves his wife not only in the first period of marriage, when she is young, beautiful, sprightly, vivacious and generally charming, and when their union still has the spice of novelty and freshness: but he will love her as much or even more as years wear on.”

—Fr. Fulgence Meyer, OFM

Published in the 1920s, this timeless book offers practical counsel and wisdom relevant for every Catholic married couple and those preparing for this great sacrament. Specifically, this book addresses how to form a truly Catholic home, the challenges and various sins that destroy marital love, and above all, how spousal love ought to flourish.

With simplicity and singleness of purpose, Plain Talks' intimate and reverent style will give you frank, illuminating, and correct answers to the questions that perplex you. Those who read this book will become better spouses and parents.

Author Bio

Fr. Fulgence Meyer, OFM, was a noted retreat master and a prolific writer in the early twentieth century. He contributed to many Catholic papers and magazines. He published twenty-seven books and pamphlets—over a million copies of his books have been distributed. By June of 1951, over 420,000 copies of his book Plain Talks had been sold. He was born at Remich, Luxembourg on May 30, 1876. When he was nine, his family immigrated to the United States, and he entered St. Francis Preparatory Seminary in Cincinnati in 1888. Upon completion of his studies, he was received into the Franciscan Order in Mount Airy, Cincinnati, in 1892. He was ordained in Rome on July 15, 1900. A year later, he returned to the United States and was made lector of theology and humanities in the St. Clement Monastery House of Studies, St. Bernard. He was made rector of St. Francis Seraphic College, Cincinnati. From 1926 until his death, he lived at St. Francis Monastery, Cincinnati. He was a member of the board of directors for the Franciscan Province of St. John the Baptist in Cincinnati from 1930 to 1933. He died on November 14, 1938 in Mount Clemens, Michigan at the age sixty-two of pneumonia while conducting a mission in St. Lawrence Church, Utica, Michigan. A Requiem High Mass was held for him on November 17, 1938 at St. Francis Seraph Church, Cincinnati. He is buried at Saint Mary Cemetery, St. Bernard, Cincinnati.