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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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An illustrated how-to manual of the Ovulation Method of fertility awareness, complete with charts and other helpful materials. The female fertility cycle is compared to the plant growth cycle, and simple, direct instructions are given for achieving or postponing pregnancy.

Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later contains Janet E. Smith's analysis of the arguments for and against Catholic Sexual teaching drawing strongly on Humanae Vitae.

Sexual Wisdom challenges false sexual ideas with truth based on medical fact, established research, and the author's own wise thinking.
Love and Fertility - book & chart
CODE: BLAF
Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later
CODE: BHVG
Sexual Wisdom
CODE: BSWG
Price: $20.00


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Price: $6.00



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Recursos básicos para ayudar a la comunidad hispana evitan el daño de la anticoncepción y se apropian las bendiciónes de la vida casada totalmente abierta a la vida y al amor.

El esfuerzo espiritual de remover los anticonceptivos y la esterilización de una practica medica, el daño fi­sico, emocional y a la relación de la pareja) de los anticonceptivos, y los beneficios correspondientes a la Planificación Natural de la Familia.
English Pamphlet Packet
CODE: SPPP
Paquete en español
CODE: SSPA
La Pildora vs. la PNF
CODE: PPVNsp
Price: $7.00


Price: $8.95


Price: $0.35



The One More Soul Booklet Packet contains one each of the booklets published by One More Soul covering topics such as contraception, breast cancer, teen abstinence, and Natural Family Planning

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unanimous Christian rejection of contraception broke down in 1930, leading to the disastrous sexual revolution
One More Soul Booklets Packet
CODE: SOMS
John Paul II's Theology of the Body
CODE: CTOB
Birth Control and Christian Discipleship
CODE: BBCC
Price: $15.00


Price: $2.00


Price: $4.50



Information from the book Breast Cancer, Its Link to Abortion and the Birth Control Pill, in a short and highly persuasive format.

Short leaflet (less than 300 words), very clear, totally common sense, supported by the latest research. Message: Condoms do not effectively protect against anything!

Perceiving the Contraception Connection a Catholic priest encourages people to reject contraception and to practice natural family planning.
Breast Cancer Risk from Abortion
CODE: PBCA
Condom Sense
CODE: PCSP
Perceiving the Contraception Connection
CODE: PPCC
Price: $0.35


Price: $0.50


Price: $0.35



Lives have been radically improved by learning the value of fertility through Natural Family Planning

Bookmark and poem reflecting the eternal value of a child.

In Life-Giving Love Kimberly Hahn takes us to God's wonderful plan for the family in the sexual teachings of the Catholic Church. Also in Spanish
Teaching Fertility Appreciation
CODE: PTFA
Glimpse Of God (Reflections of a Mother)
CODE: ZGOG
Life-Giving Love
CODE: BLGL
Price: $0.35


Price: $0.35


Price: $16.99



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>.

Why is Contraception Immoral?

Traces the Bible's opposition to contraception from Genesis to Revelation with wonderful clarity.
Roots of The Problem poster
CODE: ZROP
Why is Contraception Immoral?
CODE: KWIC
The Bible vs Contraception
CODE: PBVC
Price: $2.00


Price: $1.00


Price: $0.50


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