Trad Newlyweds
ynthia and Joe met on Facebook, but alas, the path of true love is never
straight, especially on social media. Due to Joe’s unusual sense of humor, things got off to a rocky start. However, in due course they were engaged in a live video last year, and married in May in a Sung High Mass in Manhattan’s Holy innocents Church.
The Burleys have now settled in a suburb of Detroit. Both Cynthia and Joe were married before. One was annulled; one was widowed. Joe is a cradle Catholic from Michigan. Cynthia was born into an Evangelical Christian family in Haiti but lived in Brooklyn, NY from the age of three. Here is their fascinating story.
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REGINA: Joe, you are a cradle Catholic?
JOE: Yes almost all my family is Catholic. Both parents went to Catholic school and raised us in the faith but it was always sort of lukewarm and my faith was uninspired, in part due to going to a rather bland and modernist Catholic parish. In college, I joined Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and a bible study and started to become more interested in my faith observing the zeal of others in IVCF. Seeing the faith of people of Protestant churches, I decided to start sampling them all: Baptist, Episcopalian, Lutheran etc.
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