Wedding Banns - Time Management, Your Marriage Comes First

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 today is about time management as a couple.

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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 Cimbrone. 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: 1:13

Hello, we are Cindy and Deacon Angelo. And this show is called wedding bands here on spirit filled radio. The title for today's show is time management. But Cindy and I think we might be better called how to manage your time as a couple in order to keep your marriage a priority. So maybe it's should be called Marriage priority time. Before we get started, we remind you again that we're not marriage counselors, we're just a couple sharing our experiences. And when we have guests their experiences as well.

Cindy Giambrone: 1:43

Angelo And I like to start each morning with a couple prayer. And so let's begin with our favorite line. It's a reading from the Letter to Hebrews 3:13 and the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear Lord, please help us to remember this is a Sacramento couple that every day as long as this today last, we keep encouraging one another. We ask this through Jesus Holy Name, Amen. And really, that's the intent of our show wedding bands, is for those of you listening to be encouraged. We hope to give you some encouraging words as you journey through life as your second marriage sacrament

Deacon Angelo Giambrone: 2:25

right and encouraging one another. It's, you know, their primary role in the roles we talked about. of married couple is to minister to each other. Yeah. And part of that ministry really is encouragement of one another. So beautiful prayer, and beautiful reading this morning to kick us off.

Cindy Giambrone: 2:44

And as Angela mentioned, you know that the topic for this week show is time management. And we asked those of you to think about as a couple. Back to that time. When you and your spouse were first dating. How did you spend your time? How did that compare to when you were first married, or when children came along? What happened

Deacon Angelo Giambrone: 3:09

is Cindy and I have spoken about the importance of nourishing and feeding our marriage sacrament. We talked about marriage as a living thing really, like a plant like a rosebush, that needs to be taken care of it needs sunshine needs watering and needs fertilizer and time. Marriage time you spent together let's call it a couple time is like watering or it's like sunshine. And it's needed for marriage to grow and thrive. And when we decide to deprive our marriage of couple time, time for each other. It's like taking that rosebush, full of blooms and then throwing it into a dark closet. Without water or sunshine. We know what would happen to that rosebush and marriage that's not given couple time, time for each other will be challenged to be at risk.

Cindy Giambrone: 4:00

time together as husband and wife doesn't just happen. Angelo sitting in the same room with me. As we're busy reading the newspaper or looking at our screens, whether that's the TV or smartphone is not spending time together. Really

Deacon Angelo Giambrone: 4:19

mean just sitting in