" A LETTER TO MY CHILDREN" is a book about holy matrimony. It is written for the millions of married couples and for all contemplating marriage. Its purpose is to understand, to strengthen, to protect and to sanctify marriage. The book explains that marriage is the nucleus and the Imperative of any human society and what obligations and authorities are derived from it. In contrast to the majority of writers about marriage, the clergy and psychologists, who treat the subject either dogmatic, psychoanalytic or corrective, this book speaks with the simple voice of a father of five children, 14 grandchildren, having been married 44 years and is now serving his families and society as a widower. In this book, marriage is seen with soul and heart, on a substantially higher level than a conjugal institution or social past time. It is constructive and preventive, rather than corrective. The book is arranged into five theme chapters in consecutive order. The first chapter paves the way to an understanding of the magnanimity of marriage. The second illuminates love, marriage's core element and motive force. The third chapter opens all the realities, the toil, the tears, the ecstasy; the guardianship of the heart, how many children?; the tragedies of divorce and death in the family. The forth leads into its very purpose - children. The final chapter analyses the existing negative forces and teachings, with a proposal of how to correct them. The book closes with a set of Ten Commandments for the married. Although based on Christian doctrine, A LETTER TO MY CHILDREN is equally valid for all marriages, regardless of spiritual orientation.
About the Author: CURRICULUM VITAE OF WENDELL ERNEST ROSSMAN, Ph.D., Wendell Rossman, husband of Doreen Mary Rossman, father of four daughters and one son and grandfather of 7 granddaughters and 7 grandsons, has lived in Arizona since 1958. A native of Munich, Bavaria, (Nov. 21, 1926), he was raised and educated in Switzerland. At age 24, he immigrated into Canada, where he married Doreen Mary in 1953. In 1956, after further studies, he received his diploma in architecture from the University of Alberta. Due to health reasons of his wife, the family moved to Phoenix, where he soon opened his own office in architecture and acoustical engineering. In the pursuit of further education, in 1966 he received a doctorate in engineering from the University of Munich. As architect, he has over fifty performing arts centers, several churches and hundreds of structures to his name. He has written and lectured extensively, nationally and internationally. He served on the educational board of the diocese of Phoenix and as president of a parish council. Following his retirement in 1992, he and Doreen devoted their entire life to charity. After her death in 1997, together with his children, he founded the AD DEUM FOUNDATION, a charitable organization, to continue the life of service and giving to the needy, especially in the developing world. In the mid seventies, Doreen and he became co-founders of Sumanahali, a major leprosarium at Bangalore, India, were they also maintained a day-clinic for 14 years. Being active in religion and evangelization, he became a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre and Knight of Malta. He now extends pro bono professional services for religious architectural planning, especially churches. After 44 years together on this earth, in the bond of the most happy and rewarding marriage, he felt privileged and entitled to speak about marriage as it can be.