Episode Notes:

"Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him." -Genesis 2:18

"There will come a time when the decisive confrontation between the Kingdom of God and Satan will take place over marriage and the family." -Lucia of Fatima

"The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring; this covenant between baptized persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament." -Catechism of the Catholic Church – Paragraph 1601

"What punishments from God are not gifts?" – J.R.R. Tolkien

"Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God." Psalm 146: 3-5