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Diocesan Workshops . . . .

For Marriage Prep Teams
For High School/ College students
For Marriage Support
Seminarian/Priest: Supplementary Education
For Schools & Teachers

For Marriage Prep Teams

This workshop utilizes the exciting new marriage preparation program Christian Married Life, published by Benziger, and meets the various needs of dioceses and parishes preparing young people for marriage: Pre-Cana courses, Encounter-style retreats and Couple-to-couple programs.

Rudiments of Immediate marriage preparation
Marital Pedagogy and Practical application
Essential Objectives and approaches

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For Counseling Cohabiting Couples

The Workshop utilizes the Counseling Cohabitation Guide to aid priests in their pastoral care of couples who are living together while preparing for marriage.

Supplemental marriage preparation
Identifying issues and effects
Pastoral approaches and objectives for healing

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For High School/ College students

Workshop utilizes Preparing for the Gift of Self to help schools incorporate a supplemental marriage course within the regular religious education curriculum.

Marital Pedagogy and Practical application for young adults entering dating and courtship
Covers the essential elements of marriage

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For Marriage Support

The Family Life Institute offers a serious and effective marriage workshop. The easy-to-follow course book covers all the major issues facing married people today.

Vision of Christian Marriage
Practical Application
Communication

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Seminarian/Priest: Supplementary Education

Counseling Infertility

This workshop is designed to help priests, deacons and all those in pastoral ministry to understand the unique and complex needs of couples experiencing infertility. It gives pastoral ministers a glimpse of what is in the heart of these couples who desperately want children, their pain, confusion and their desire to know and follow the truth. Begotten Not Made addresses infertility from a holistic viewpoint. It not only examines the moral issues surrounding the various Assisted Fertility Techniques available today, but also the physical, psychological, social and spiritual concerns couples unable to conceive face.

Priests and Pastoral Care Workers
Glimpse of couple’s heart
Relate what Church says
Impact on Fertility Treatment
What is involved in treatment
Formulating pastoral approaches

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Pastoral Counseling for Marriage & Family

These workshops provide a supplement to the normal training and education that is received within the seminary. They are meant to provide a practical application of the marital pedagogy to aid the priest in his role as pastoral counselor to the family.

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Marriage Preparation

A priest must understand the vision of marriage and family and then illuminate this vision for the couple in a practical way. It is the couple’s responsibility to make this vision incarnate and it is the priest’s responsibility to assist them.

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For Teachers & Schools

Topics included:

Integrating Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality
Virtue in Campus life and class operation
Parent/school relationship
Supplementary High School Marriage Course
Athletics and Virtue Formation

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