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Marriage Preparation Tools

wed-5.gif · 1) Give couples an outstanding "marriage prep packet".
· 2) Set out a table with additional resources.
· 3) Build a powerful Marriage Preparation Curriculum.
· 4) Create a library for couples, presenters, and mentors.
· 5) Provide resources for Hispanic couples as needed.


There is now an online marriage preparation service that works with local Marriage support personal and allows couples in unusual situations (such as one partner being overseas for the time being) to complete a full featured marriage preparation program.


Why Marriage Preparation Matters

The goal of Marriage Preparation is to bring about superb marriages, the kind of marriages where people say, "Aren’t they a wonderful couple!" and mean it. The realities of our culture make this extremely challenging. Nearly all of the couples who come to the Church for marriage are already sexually active with one another; nearly all of them are using contraceptives* to avoid pregnancy before marriage, and half to three quarters of them are already living together. By their lifestyle choices, they have already convinced themselves that the Church has nothing to tell them about male-female relationships or fertility management, and certainly nothing worthwhile to say about sexuality.

So why do they come? Plainly they are looking for something more than they can get from cohabitation. They know from observation of other couples (and possibly their own bitter experience) just how fragile sexual relationships outside of marriage can be. They want something better for themselves and hope that a gorgeous public ceremony or maybe some mysterious "blessing" from the Church can give them that extra something.

So what can the Church do for them? Well, Jesus gave us the best teaching on marriage and relationships ever delivered, and John Paul II has taken that teaching and packaged it so well that we now know more about what makes a marriage work (and what doesn’t) than ever before, and this knowledge is mostly available only through the Catholic Church.

Marriage is a fine-tuned, extremely powerful biological/psychological/spiritual package. Marriage moves couples to create the very best setting for bringing up resourceful, contributing members of society.
That setting is the human family with two highly involved parents. The family, however, revolves around the wholehearted sexual donation of each spouse to the other. Anything that attacks that relationship is highly destructive to marriage and the family. Pornography, for example, involves the husband with imaginary sexual images instead of his wife. Both partners are clearly aware of this disconnection, and sexual activity becomes divisive instead of unitive, with typically disastrous consequences. Birth control is even worse. Contracepted sex is the individual pursuit of physical/emotional gratification instead of a mutual pursuit of greater love and family involvement. This self-centered sex, unlike family-oriented sex, has devastating effects, for example, the huge increase in divorce that has come about as our culture has become saturated with birth control.

Marriage preparation programs can now clearly teach what factors, such as birth control, attack the marriage bond and what factors, such as accepting children, support and enhance it. We owe a great debt to John Paul II, because now we can tell couples not only what to do (and avoid) for a life-long, excellent relationship, but we can also tell them why these practices make such a remarkable difference. Effective marriage preparation, however, calls for a thorough re-education of the trainers as well as the trainees, since all of us are immersed in a culture where sexual values are highly distorted.

This is absolutely worth the effort. Healthy marriages lead to loving families. Loving families lead to functional, productive communities—a culture of life, a Civilization of Love. Anything we can do to foster this society will have an enormous payoff!

Four steps to take:



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Nuestra cultura moderna ha perdido totalmente las bases de la moralidad. Juan Pablo II expone con una claridad maravillosa cómo nosotros podemos conocer la verdad y seguirla.

Este documental maravilloso en DVD sigue la vida de Santa. Gianna Beretta Molla, una esposa del siglo XX, madre, y médico, que vivió una vida de devoción plena a su marido, a la familia, y a los pacientes, y luego dió su vida para que la hija que llevaba en su vientre pudiera vivir. Ahora canonizada como una santa católica, ella es un ejemplo brillante de una mujer siendo todo lo que ella puede ser. Este video cuenta la historia de Gianna simple y hermosamente e incluye muchos cortometrajes de la santa, así como entrevistas con su marido y sus hijos.

The story of St Gianna Berretta Molla, a modern-day wife, mother, and physician, who fully engaged her faith in her medical practice. In 1962 she faced the agonizing choice between saving her own life and that of her unborn child, and chose to save her child. She is a wonderful reminder that saints still walk among us.
Esplendor de la verdad: carta enciclica de Juan Pablo II (Veritatis Splendor)
CODE: BSOTsp
El amor es una elección
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No Greater Love
CODE: KNGL
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Como los hombres jóvenes pueden escoger la verdadera masculinidad.

Find out how chastity is about so much more than saying no to sex but about saying yes to real authentic love and much more!

Birthing and raising 14 children (not including 5 already with the Lord) sounds almost easy when Jim and Kathleen share “anecdotes and a philosophy of life from a family of sixteen” in this wonderful book. They spell out for us the great rewards and the challenges of large family living, and they urge “the reader to reevaluate the possibility of having another child [and to be] open to God’s will, with a supernatural, faith-filled perspective. . . .There is a great feeling of freedom and peace that one experiences when one steps out in love and trust in our infinitely loving God.” You’ll want to read this book all in one sitting.
20 formas para que los hombres jovenes pueden llegar a ser VERDADEROS hombres.
CODE: P20Msp
Chastity: What Are You Saying Yes To?
CODE: PSYT
Better by the Dozen, Plus Two
CODE: BBBD
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Practically speaking, widespread use of contraception has led directly to massive increases of divorce and abortion. Personal union and yearning for fertility are written physically into the structure of sexual relations, and shutting down one of these aspects hurts the whole relationship.There are practical, workable steps we can take to regain the overflowing life that God desires for us.

La profética  encíclica de 1968 que llamó a la Iglesia para vivir la visión completa de Dios para la vida familiar.

Como las mujeres jóvenes pueden afirmar y defender su valor como personas
Why Contraception Matters
CODE: CWCM
Humanae Vitae
CODE: KHVTsp
20 maneras como las mujeres jóvenes pueden reclamar el respeto que merecen
CODE: P20Wsp
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12 beautiful and powerful 30 minute sessions originally aired on EWTN by Jason and Crystalina Evert covering almost every aspect of living the pure life you can imagine!.

Four physicians who do not prescribe hormonal birth control give medical reasons for this decision.

A well-written, hard to put down novel about one woman's journey toward discovering the beauty of God's plan for love, marriage, and children.
The Pure Life
CODE: DTPL
Problems Associated with Hormonal Birth Control
CODE: PHPB
Emily's Hope
CODE: BEHE
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A positive, compelling, and dynamic chastity presentation for teens by Jason and Crystalina Evert.

Todos nuestros señaladores y folletos para los jóvenes en español, junto con un CD, y un librito.

As modern technology strips away the mystery of the womb, parents are often being pressured to make a decision to continue or end a pregnancy based on a type of quality control standard. The purpose of this book is to inspire discussion, reflections and prayer regarding prenatal testing.
Romance Without Regret (public school version)- DVD
CODE: DRWRp
Paquete para Jovenes
CODE: SYTHsp
Prenatal Testing
CODE: KPTE
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This book is written for those who have heard the shattering words "Something is wrong with your unborn baby." This reflective resource is intended to embrace parents at this difficult time with encouragement and insight.

Debido a diversos problemas con la pí­ldora, muchas personas están buscando alternativas. Estos son los principales usos de la pí­ldora, cómo funciona y alternativas eficaces.

A great presentation of the basics of John Paul II's Theology of the Body.
Our Unborn Baby Has a Problem
CODE: KOUB
Alternativas para la Pí­ldora
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An Introduction to the Theology of the Body, Discovering the Master Plan for Your Life
CODE: BITL
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