Wedding Banns - Making Time for Fun in Marriage

Deacon Angelo Giambrone was ordained for the Diocese of Orange in 2015. He and his wife Cindy have been members of St. Vincent de Paul Church in Huntington Beach, where he serves, for many years. They and their three children have been active members and participate in the life of the parish. Their topic is having fun as a married couple.

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 TRANSCRIPT:
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what is God's plan for marriage. Get ready for some real talk straight from the heart. Spirit filled radio is proud to present wedding bands, the program that's all about marriage with your hosts, Deacon Angelo and Cindy Giambrone. Listen as they share their stories of navigating marriage and family life with all the joys and challenges that come with it. Here's your host to get us started.

Deacon Angelo Giambrone: 0:43

Hi, we are Cindy and Deacon Angelo. This show is called wedding bands here on spirit filled radio. And today's show we'll be discussing Fun, fun and marriage. Fun is important aspect of our lives together. And as married couples, especially and fun is one way to realize, really realize the fullness of our love as a couple. Before we get started, we remind you that we are not marriage counselors just married couples that shares our experiences with you, Cindy?

Cindy Giambrone: 1:15

Yes. And let's begin with prayer. Angela and I start each morning with couple prayer. And we'd like to begin each show with a favorite line from that morning prayer. It's from the letter to Hebrews 313 In the name of the Father and the sun in the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear Lord, please help us to remember this as a sacramental couple that every day, as long as this today last, we keep encouraging one another. We asked this for Jesus Holy

Deacon Angelo Giambrone: 1:44

Name, Amen. Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Cindy Giambrone: 1:48

And as Angela mentioned, today, we're going to talk about one of my favorite subjects that is fun, specifically, having fun together as a husband and wife. So why is having fun important in your relationship? Well, we think that laughter and fun are part of the glue that can help strengthen our relationships. This has been a particular challenge for all of us, during this time of the pandemic.

Deacon Angelo Giambrone: 2:19

So Cindy, let's in couples this and what are some of the ways couples can bring fun into their marriage? And if we were going to ask, we were asked Cindy, how do we find fun? What is fun? What would we say? What? What would be the definition of fun? One way to determine this is a simple exercise that we would like you as couples listening to try on to try this. We asked you just for a moment to get two pieces of paper, one for each of you obviously. Yes, that would be true. And write in pen or pencil and write down on that paper, slip of paper or three by five cards, perhaps the five big fun ideas or places you would like to do or visit. We'll just wait a moment here. And we we did that ourselves. So a couple just take a chance real quick. Do you just write down five words? or what have you five big fun ideas, fun ideas or places? Okay, now, take a moment if you were to exchange what you've written with your spouse, and think about what you found out and what surprises were there. When your whatever those five big ideas were.

Cindy Giambrone: 3:30

And we recently did this exercise at home. And when Angela and I tried this exercise on I chose Maui. I chose