: – Clergy & Lay Ministers who prepare couples for marriage – Couples who promote marriage enrichment in their parish – Parish leaders who help parents build strong families WHEN: Thursday, March 30, 2023 from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM WHERE: Blessed
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND: – Clergy & Lay Ministers who prepare couples for marriage – Couples who promote marriage enrichment in their parish – Parish leaders who help parents build strong families ”
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The Marriage Formation Department assists parishes with promoting the vocation of marriage, preparing engaged couples for marriage, providing marriage enrichment ministry, and caring for married couples who are struggling as well as caring for those
1. Know God calls each person to encounter Him in prayer. 2. Know that prayer is a personal dialogue and relationship with God. 3. Understand that prayer is the raising of their minds and hearts to God. 4. Know basic forms of prayer are blessing
igniting the hearts of the team members and the young people they encounter. The result has been the formation of young adults who continue to dedicate themselves to the Church’s mission of evangelization along with many vocations to the priesthood
? To find fulfillment, to gain new strength, there is a way. It is not a thing or an object, but a person, and he is alive. His name is Jesus Christ." - Pope Francis (World Youth Day, Krakow, Poland) You are invited to have an online encounter
The role of Sponsor/Mentor Couples is to provide engaged couples with a positive witness of the lived experience of marriage and help them connect with the parish community. Sponsor couples accompany engaged couples toward a deeper relationship
What is marriage?
The Catholic Church understands marriage to be a “covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses
As Catholics we believe that Marriage is a covenant by which a man and a woman establish a partnership of the whole of their lives. Catholics believe that marriage is a total, exclusive, faithful, fruitful, life-long bond – even if neither person