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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!

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How to find love that is Free, Faithful, Total, and Fruitful.

How to find love that is Free, Faithful, Total, and Fruitful.

How to find love that is Free, Faithful, Total, and Fruitful.
True Love. . . How Will I Know? (Podcast)
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True Love. . . How Will I Know? CD
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True Love. . . How Will I Know? DVD
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<p>Study guide for Patty Schneier's <a href="http://www.omsoul.com/catalog/index.php?target=products&amp;product_id=681">explanation</a> of love that is free, faithful, total and fruitful.</p>

Brief, high-impact profiles of two young women, one sexually involved with her boyfriend, one deliberately abstinent.

The hidden first nine months of Jesus&#39;s life, from the moment of conception within Mary&#39;s body to his birth in Bethlehem. The author thoughtfully explores the glories, mysteries, and graces found in Jesus&#39;s as he grows from fertilized ovum to newborn baby
True Love. . . How Will I Know? Study Guide
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Two Young Women
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Unborn Jesus Our Hope
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Gives a couple what they need to start a happy and holy marriage

Vasectomy Safe and Simple? Although the medical community and most family planning advocates consider vasectomy safe and simple, this pamphlet provides a review of current research on vasectomy that indicates the procedure has a number of short- and long-term complications and is not a healthy choice.

The testimony of one couple and their journey from the verge of divorce to healing and happiness.
Until Death Do Us Part
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Vasectomy Safe and Simple?
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We Had Everything… But Happiness
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Information on all the major methods of contraception, with their methods of action and health consequence

Ann Moell MD speaks to her patients from her heart about why she chooses not to prescribe contraceptives for them.

Many couples are realizing that contraception is not a good choice for them. The big question is, "What next?"
What a Woman Should Know about Birth Control
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What About Birth Control?
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What Do We Do Now?
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What every engaged couple needs to know before they enter into marriage in the Catholic Church.

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.

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.
When Two Become One
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Why Contraception Matters
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Why Contraception Matters Podcast
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Why is Contraception Immoral?

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The struggles in the area of sexual purity and lust that many men face on a regular basis, with solid grounds for hope and victory.
Why is Contraception Immoral?
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Why NFP is a Priority in My Parish (mp3)
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Winning the Battle for Sexual Purity
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