Marriage Support & Related Ministries

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• Sacrament of Marriage
• Natural Family Planning (NFP) resources
• Parishioner Tips: Successfully Complete 25+ Years of Marriage
• Prayer for Our Marriage
  

Engaged couples who wish to register for this program should call the Parish Office and will be informed how to register in person. For more information, see Letter from Pastor and Three programs sheet.

Linda and Michael Hartford
703-465-1960
Mhartford@comcast.net

The Couple Mentoring Program is a couple-to-couple approach to marriage preparation. Mentor couples for marriage are similar to sponsors for Baptism and Confirmation. A husband and wife become mentors for a couple engaged to be married. Together the two couples go through the steps of the Couple Mentoring Program.

This is a special way to bring an added dimension to marriage preparation--direct couple-to-couple sharing of the sacred/human reality that is the day-to-day experience of Christian Marriage.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter is designed to give married couples the opportunity to spend a weekend away from the hectic demands of today's world in a face-to-face, heart-to-heart encounter with the one person they have chosen to live with for the rest of their lives.

For over 30 years, Worldwide Marriage Encounter has been helping good marriages become great marriages. Spend a weekend with us and discover what more than 4 million couples and their families have experienced--intimate communication, a strengthened relationship and renewed commitment.

Can help married couples turn a good (or even ho-hum or boring) marriage into a GREAT marriage!

1. Rediscover the spark that was there on your wedding day.
2. Rediscover the best friend you had when you were first married.
3. Join the millions of couples worldwide who have learned how to keep their marriage vibrant and alive.

Retrouvaille is the name of a program designed to help heal and renew hurting marriages. "Retrouvaille" simply means rediscovery. The program offers the chance to rediscover yourself, your spouse, and a loving relationship in your marriage. It's for married couples who are:

• Anxious about their marriage relationship
• Alone or distant from their partner
• Experiencing coldness or conflict
• Disillusioned, hurt, angry with their partner
• Unable to see how to change their situation

The program can help couples who decide to do something positive about their marriage as they work at healing and rediscovering each other in a new and positive way.

1. Is your marriage tearing your apart?
2. Do you feel lost and alone?
3. Are you frustrated, hurt or angry, with each other?
4. Are you constantly arguing or fighting?
5. Have you thought about separation or divorce?
6. Without the time or desire to communicate.
7. Does talking about it only make it worse?
8. You don't know how to change or where to turn?