Jeff Cassman

Consecration of A Marriage to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Your Wedding Day

Posted on August 22, 2026 by Jeff Cassman

Consecration of Your Marriage to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Your Wedding Day

Most Holy Virgin Mary,
Mother of God and our Mother,
Queen of the Most Holy Rosary and Queen of Families,
we come before thee today as husband and wife
to consecrate our marriage, our family, and our home
to thy Immaculate Heart.

Before Almighty God, we once gave ourselves to one another in the holy Sacrament of Matrimony. Today, together, we place that sacred covenant beneath thy maternal protection.

O Immaculate Heart of Mary, receive our marriage.

Guard the vows we made before God. Preserve between us fidelity, patience, tenderness, purity, and charity. Teach us to forgive quickly, to bear one another’s burdens generously, and to seek the good of the other before ourselves.

When we are strong, keep us humble.
When we are weary, strengthen us.
When we disagree, give us charity.
When we suffer, keep us close to the Cross.
When we prosper, keep our hearts fixed upon Heaven.

Protect our marriage from every influence that would divide us, from temptation and discouragement, from selfishness and resentment, and from every attack of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Make our home a truly Catholic home.

May Jesus Christ reign as King within it. May His Holy Name be honored here. May prayer be our refuge, the Holy Rosary our familiar companion, the Sacraments our strength, and the Catholic Faith the inheritance we hand faithfully to our children.

We consecrate to thy Immaculate Heart

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Where Magnifica Humanitas Needs Revision: A Traditional Catholic Assessment

Posted on May 28, 2026 by Jeff Cassman

Michael Pakaluk performed an interesting experiment with the Pope’s encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas giving it to Claude and asking for a critical review. I urge you to read what Pakaluk discovered.

Anyway, I did the same with ChatGPT to see how it might differ. Here’s the result:

## Top-line assessment

The document contains many orthodox elements: Christ, the Incarnation, grace, right to life, family, subsidiarity, private property, AI as non-human intelligence, and warnings against transhumanism. But as a draft, a traditionally Catholic reviewer would flag a **pattern of imprecision**: too much “humanity/common good/dialogue/process” language, too little explicit emphasis on **sin, repentance, salvation, supernatural beatitude, the Church’s unique mission, doctrinal authority, and the hierarchy of goods**.

Here are the issues I would flag, from most serious to least.

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## 1. The center of gravity feels too anthropocentric

The repeated emphasis on “the grandeur of humanity,” human dignity, common good, fraternity, and integral development is not wrong in itself. But the document often sounds as if the Church’s central mission is to safeguard humanity’s dignity in history, rather than to lead souls to salvation in Christ.

The Catechism says human dignity is rooted in the image of God and **fulfilled in divine beatitude**, and that man’s life is a dramatic struggle between good and evil because of original sin. The document does mention Christ and grace, but the main register is often sociological and humanitarian. ([Vatican][1])

**Revision needed:** Put the supernatural end first: man is made for God, wounded by sin, … Read the rest

Advice to Parents

Posted on December 23, 2025 by Jeff Cassman

Parents, You Are Responsible for the Souls of Your Children

Jesus tells us in the Gospel that a good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit (Matt. 7:17-18). In the same way, a good father raises good children. But if the parents are immoral, how can the children grow up to be virtuous? Can you expect to harvest grapes from thorns? Of course not.

So let’s be honest: it’s rare to find holy and upright children who were raised by careless or sinful parents.

Parents, pay attention. Your children’s eternal salvation, and your own, depends on whether or not you take this responsibility seriously. And you young men and women who are discerning marriage: if you want to become a parent one day, you must understand that God will hold you accountable for how you raise your children. Fail in this duty, and you may very well drag not only your children to Hell, but yourself as well.

Part One: The Eternal Importance of Raising Children in Virtue

Every father and mother has two key duties to their children:

To provide for their material needs.
To raise them in the habits of Christian virtue.

The first doesn’t need much explanation. A parent who squanders money on selfish pleasures while his children go hungry is acting more like a wild beast than a human being. But let’s focus on the second duty: education in virtue.

Your children’s eternal future, whether they grow up to be … Read the rest

How to Get Into Homeownership Sooner: 14 Practical Strategies That Actually Work in an Inflationary Economy

Posted on December 13, 2025 by Jeff Cassman

Many people feel like homeownership is drifting out of reach. This was a topic of a recent article by my friend Mike Parrot and a follow up by yours truly. I was also on Joe McClane’s show recently with Michael Hichborn talking about this. I promised to write a follow up article with practical ideas, and this is it.

To review: Prices keep rising. Rents keep rising. Groceries and gas keep rising. Meanwhile, your savings account earns close to nothing while the money supply expands and the purchasing power of the dollar shrinks.

In other words: we are likely living in an inflationary environment for the foreseeable future.

That has two big consequences:

Waiting has a real cost. While you “take your time,” home prices, rents, and construction costs often march upward.
Assets beat cash. In inflationary periods, people who own real assets (like real estate) are generally better protected than people who sit in cash and hope.

In an inflationary world, your rent will go up.
Your grocery bill will go up.
Your insurance will go up.

The one thing that doesn’t go up once it’s locked in?
A fixed-rate mortgage payment.

So this article isn’t about waiting for the perfect rate or the perfect market. It’s about finding a realistic, ethical, legal way to get into a “you close, you own” position sooner rather than later.

Everything below is a true ownership strategy—no rent-to-own gimmicks, no vague promises. For each option, we’ll walk through:… Read the rest

Meta’s Andromeda Update Just Made Creativity King

Posted on October 24, 2025 by Jeff Cassman

Over on LinkedIn, my son Michael asked a great question:

Here’s a detailed answer from ChatGPT for advertising geeks:

✅ What is Andromeda (in plain English)

Meta describes Andromeda as a next-gen ad retrieval engine — essentially the system that selects which ad (out of many) gets shown to which user. The MTM Agency+3Engineering at Meta+3Foxwell Digital+3
It’s built on large-scale ML and high-throughput hardware (e.g., NVIDIA Grace Hopper superchips) enabling Meta to process vast volumes of creative/ad candidates, make decisions in real-time, and serve more personalized ads. Engineering at Meta+2Foxwell Digital+2
The upshot: rather than manually finely segmenting audiences + creating a few ad variations, the system now thrives on lots of creative assets + broad targeting + algorithmic optimization. For example: “Andromeda can now scan thousands or even tens of thousands of ads in milliseconds.” Smart Marketer+2The MTM Agency+2

🔍 What’s changed / What the media-buyers are seeing

Yes — you’re correct on many of the bullets. Here’s a more structured list of what’s changed, and some extra ones you might not have seen.

Major shifts

Audience targeting (narrow interest sets) is de-emphasized
- The old playbook: build many granular audiences, niche interests, multiple ad sets, test who responds.
- Now: the update prioritizes broad targeting (or even “everyone” within a country), letting Meta’s algorithm find the pockets of responsiveness. The MTM Agency+1
- Hard truth: If your agency/funnel is still heavily using ultra-segmented interest sets +

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