New Can We Cana? Blog

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Married Catholics today need help and they aren't getting it, which is why I started the Can We Cana? blog in December 2012.  Can We Cana? is meant to be a community of faithful Catholics supporting other faithful Catholics in their vocation of marriage.  I invite anyone who's interested to join in and contribute their questions and their advice.

The blog offers marriage preparation tips in its Pre-Cana Posts, practical advice on marriage and family in its Post-Cana Posts, and invitations to meditation and prayer in its Pray-Cana Posts.

My husband Manny and daughter Lelia designed the logo, since I have no artistic talent whatsoever and couldn't design a stick figure. Manny first came up with a few different ideas. One was interlocking marriage rings with the Scriptural quote, "Do whatever he tells you." Many people would recognize these words as what Our Blessed Mother said to the servants at the wedding of Cana directly before Jesus performed the miracle of turning water into wine. (Jn 2:5) Anyone who didn't catch the Scriptural reference, however, would probably not react well. "Yeah," Manny acknowledged, "we wouldn't want people to think it meant to do whatever your husband tells you." Cue screams of reader outrage.

When we stopped laughing over that one, we turned to the next idea. Idea #2 was the word H2O with an arrow leading to a bunch of grapes. Another water into wine reference. It seemed too chemical and scientific to me, though. My husband's medical background was definitely showing through.

Idea #3 was the winner -- a pitcher of water being poured over interlocking wedding rings, where the water transformed into wine before falling into a waiting goblet. This image underscored the idea that, through marriage, the water of our immaturity and selfishness is turned into the wine of life-long love and forever forgiveness, compassion, and self-sacrifice. Sold!  We had found our logo.

Please come visit the Can We Cana? blog by clicking here.  If you like it, I hope you'll stay and build the community together with me.

Comments

  1. joannaB739:42 am, February 25, 2013

    Great Blog

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  2. Connie Rossini5:26 pm, February 25, 2013

    Your site looks great. I hope to explore it more when I have time. Keep up the good work!

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  3. Unknown6:00 pm, February 25, 2013

    Thanks, Connie. Feel free to visit whenever you want to!

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