Jan and Joyce Nahorski

Joliet, Illinois
“A Covenant Promise”

Growing up and going to school in Chicago, Jan and Joyce were by all accounts high school sweethearts. They married one another in college and then life quite naturally began to get in the way of their marriage. A stint in the Army, a job loss, trouble with the IRS, and four children later, Jan and Joyce faced a deep, bitter, and resentful disillusionment

Things became so difficult, Jan told Joyce one day that we wanted out. He wanted a divorce. Joyce told him that she would “never divorce him.” She said they had entered a Covenant marriage with one another and God. Divorce was not an option for her until they tried everything they could to make their marriage work. They persevered through it all and discovered how to forgive one another and begin again. Today they have found the hope and healing they needed to be the couple God called them to be on their wedding day. They are, indeed, a powerful witness to the graces found in the Sacrament of Matrimony.

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