Intimate Graces
How Practicing the Works of Mercy Brings Out the Best in Marriage
by Teresa Tomeo and Dominick Pastore
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Pub Date Oct 02 2015 | Archive Date Nov 17 2015
Description
The Catholic Church encourages believers to perform Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, tangible actions that show charity toward others. In Intimate Graces, Teresa Tomeo and her husband, Dominick Pastore, demonstrate how applying the fourteen traditional virtues of Catholic spirituality can foster deeper intimacy in any marriage. The couple uses personal stories and reflections, as well as the experiences of other Catholic couples, to show how a husband and wife can become, in a real way, a haven of compassion and virtue for each other.
Tomeo and Pastore each write in their own voice and include reflection questions, practical suggestions, and a prayer at the end of each chapter.
Advance Praise
“Teresa Tomeo and Dominick Pastore have written an ingenious, engaging, wonderfully readable set of reflections on married life through the lens of the corporal works on mercy. If you’re looking for a practical guide to the vocation of Christian marriage, with all its joys and challenges – this is the book.”
Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
Archbishop of Philadelphia
“Intimate Graces is valuable ‘vocational development’ for couples at every stage of the
marriage life cycle.”
Greg and Julie Alexander
The Alexander House
“Dominick and Teresa are offering practical, wise, and faithful lessons about marriage. The down-to-earth style will be a great help to couples who read this book.”
Rev.
Leo E. Patalinghug, I.V.D.
EWTN host and founder of Grace Before Meals
“In Intimate Graces, Teresa and Dominic invite spouses to
embrace each other’s humanity with all its quirks and shortcomings, to lift it
up, and to heal it through the practice of the works of mercy. Rich in
practical and spiritual insights, this book encourages spouses to grow in
compassion for each other.”
John
and Teri Bosio
Creators of Six Dates for
Catholic Couples
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781594716423 |
| PRICE | $14.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Janet P, Reviewer
This book uses the corporal and spiritual works of mercy as starting points for looking at and improving your marriage. While it may seem like a bit of a stretch to apply some of these to marriages and their difficulties, each of the works do apply in very real ways.
The book is written by both people. For each chapter Teresa starts off with her take and then Dominick adds his. I liked that both of them revealed information about their marriage, themselves, and their difficulties. But I especially liked that the two sections did not always speak to each other. For example, one might reveal something about their life together, but the other might use the example of a friend's marriage to illustrate the same concept. It really shows, I think, that each of the authors thought about and wrote on these ideas alone.
Each chapter ends with some tips for looking at the concept or problem in the light of your own marriage, a prayer and some questions for reflection.
The book concludes with an extensive research section.
While it isn't a marriage manual, it will help make your marriage better,
Sr. Marie P, Media/Journalist
I valued the raw honesty of this married couple. It is a book valuable for those who are married or anticipating marriage. It is written from the vantage point of relying on Catholic faith and practice that was revisited during the growing pains of marriage.
Janka H, Educator
Deep, beautiful, real and touching, this is the book to read for anyone interested in (their) marriage. Teresa Tomeo and husband Dominick Pastore - in both of their voices - share short, but very much on-the-spot devotions based on fourteen Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy about the reality of marriage (maybe your one and certainly theirs!) and offer the working solutions about how to show mercy (in lot of forms, because mercy, like love, has a lot of faces) to your spouse. Mercy might be offering the forbearance in the place of rightful/"rightful" anger, the forgiveness as a healing balm even if the differences are still here, the love to your spouse where they are right now (not where we would like to see them, for good or not so good reasons).
They are honest yet not preachy at the least, warm yet not overbearing, being themselves and yet as open as they can to the total strangers.
THANK YOU. I´ve been enriched by this book.
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