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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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A 'marriage card' that slips easily into wallets and reminds teenagers of their commitment to save sex until their wedding day

Helps teenagers understand the need to choose virginity up until they are married

Un resumen corto excelente  del método Billings de Planificación Natural de la Familia
"No Toads" Chastity Card
CODE: ZTOD
SEX . . . Is there more to it?
CODE: PSEX
El Metodo Billings de la Ovulación
CODE: PBOMsp
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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.

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

Perceiving the Contraception Connection a Catholic priest encourages people to reject contraception and to practice natural family planning.
La Pildora vs. la PNF
CODE: PPVNsp
Breast Cancer Risk from Abortion
CODE: PBCA
Perceiving the Contraception Connection
CODE: PPCC
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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.

The contraceptive movement's overwhelming success in our day, and workable strategies for turning this around
Teaching Fertility Appreciation
CODE: PTFA
Glimpse Of God (Reflections of a Mother)
CODE: ZGOG
The Cure
CODE: PTCH
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Ann Moell MD speaks to her patients from her heart about why she chooses not to prescribe contraceptives for them.

Information on all the major methods of contraception, with their methods of action and health consequence

Como la Pi­ldora aumenta el riesgo de contraer cancer de seno (y otras enfermedades), con estrategias efectivas para prevenirlo.
What About Birth Control?
CODE: PWBC
What a Woman Should Know about Birth Control
CODE: PWWS
La Pi­ldora y el cancer de seno
CODE: PBCPsp
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How a 40-year-old mother of four and her husband received the grace to welcome one more soul into their family.

Bookmark promoting chastity: "Cinderella didn't have to take off her dress to win her prince."

 I praise you is a bookmark reflecting the eternal value of a child and how God loves each and every one of them.
Stretch Marks
CODE: PSMF
Cinderella
CODE: ZCIN
I Praise you . . .
CODE: ZIPY
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A teen bookmark that promotes chastity by encouraging abstinence as a way of having romance without regret.

A teen abstinence card with a chastity quote from Mother Teresa.

Todos los métodos principales de anticoncepción, cómo funcionan y las consecuencias de la salud.
Romance without Regrets
CODE: ZRWR
To Young People
CODE: ZTYP
Lo que la mujer debe saber sobre el control de la natalidad
CODE: PWWSsp
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