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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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Purity is not Puritanism, nor is it prudishness. Christian purity is the ability to see the mystery of God revealed through the body and sexuality. Purity of heart is the key to human happiness and brings true sexual liberation.

La Doctora Ann Moell le diga a sus pacientes de su corazón porqué ella elige no prescribir los anticonceptivos para ellos

A Catholic wife and mother describes the wonderful outcomes when she switched from "picking and choosing" among the Church's teachings to wholehearted acceptance. She also gives practical pointers for helping other people in her situation.
Purity in an Impure Age
CODE: DPIA
Que Sabe Ud. Acerca del Control de la Natalidad?
CODE: PWBCsp
Reaching the Cafeteria Catholic (podcast)
CODE: CRCCm
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Reaching the Cafeteria Catholic

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A positive, compelling, and dynamic chastity presentation for teens by Jason and Crystalina Evert.
Reaching the Cafeteria Catholic - CD
CODE: CRCC
Reaching the Cafeteria Catholic - set
CODE: SRCC
Romance Without Regret (public school version)- DVD
CODE: DRWRp
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A teen bookmark that promotes chastity by encouraging abstinence as a way of having romance without regret.

How contraception drives societies into the Culture of Death while chastity, <em>by the simple action of human nature</em>, produces the civilization of love <a href=https://onemoresoul.com/pdfs/Rose-Dandelion_Poster.pdf>View larger version</a>.

This wonderful biography on St Gianna tells her life's story, from her childhood, through her professional and family life, and up until the giving of her life for her child. Much of the book is in the form of an interview with Gianna's husband Pietro, and it also includes a section entitled "Gianna's Virtues," the testimony of Pietro for the process of his wife's beatification.
Romance without Regrets
CODE: ZRWR
Roots of The Problem poster
CODE: ZROP
Saint Gianna Molla
CODE: BSGM
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Helps teenagers understand the need to choose virginity up until they are married

Humanae Vitae proclaimed the beauty of marital sex unburdened by obstacles opposing fertility. This book explains and defends that teaching.

Young people today must have a compelling reason to commit to sexual abstinence. Nationally known speaker Pam Stenzel provides many such reasons. She outlines the consequences of sex outside of marriage, and teaches teens social skills for avoiding the trap of uncommitted sex.
SEX . . . Is there more to it?
CODE: PSEX
Sex Au Naturel
CODE: BSAN
Sex Still Has a Price Tag DVD
CODE: DSSP
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Sexual Wisdom challenges false sexual ideas with truth based on medical fact, established research, and the author's own wise thinking.

A wonderful compilation of St Josemaria Escriva's teaching on the glory and holiness of marriage,

Una explicación científica y detallada de por qué el uso de anticonceptivos hormonales aumenta el riesgo de desarrollar cáncer de seno
Sexual Wisdom
CODE: BSWG
Sexuality and Sanctity, The Christian Doctrine on Sex
CODE: BCSS
Si no es bueno para el tomar esteroides...Por que esta bien para ella?
CODE: PIINsp
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20 couples, who chose sterilization, tell how they received the grace to get sterilization reversals.

20 couples, who chose sterilization, tell how they received the grace to get sterilization reversals.

Materials for understanding the issues of sterilization and sterilization reversal and for encouraging sterilized couples to seek a reversal.
Sterilization Reversal - A Generous Act of Love
CODE: BSRA
Sterilization Reversal - A Generous Act of Love [PDF] 2003 edition
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Sterilization Reversal Packet
CODE: SSRP
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