Marriage Enrichment Opportunities
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Taking care of your marriage from the very beginning should be a priority. However, the seasons and cycles of marriage bring change. Those early days of dating, with long talks and feelings of being so close that nothing could ever be more important than each other, make way for family life and children, maintaining a home, jobs, career changes, and all the many challenges that occur in daily life. Today’s couples express a desire for a deep friendship and good communication with their spouse. They want to feel connected at the deepest level of their covenant bond. Sometimes they wake up one morning and say, “What happened?” This can happen early in marriage, during the middle years of raising a family, when they are experiencing the “empty nest” transition after the children leave home, or in their senior years. Couples want to appreciate all that they have in their lives and to recapture the deep friendship, great love, and oneness that are the desire of every married person’s heart. Marriage-enrichment opportunities offer couples a chance to deepen their spirituality, improve their communication, work on financial issues, break old patterns of hurt, and learn to forgive.
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Newlywed Date Nites
Enrich your marriage early: Newlywed Date Nites is an email program to support couples in their first year of marriage. Sent every second week , each Date Nite includes topic information, reflection questions, and a discussion guide for a 30-minute relationship activity that can be easily incorporated into a regular couple date. Compiled by the founders of SmartLoving, Dr. Byron and Francine Pirola, it addresses common challenges facing newlyweds with wisdom, insight, and humor. Subscribe now; FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME. www.smartloving.org/newlywed
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Enrich your marriage early: Newlywed Date Nites is an email program to support couples in their first year of marriage. Sent every second week , each Date Nite includes topic information, reflection questions, and a discussion guide for a 30-minute relationship activity that can be easily incorporated into a regular couple date. Compiled by the founders of SmartLoving, Dr. Byron and Francine Pirola, it addresses common challenges facing newlyweds with wisdom, insight, and humor.
Subscribe now: www.smartloving.org/newlywed
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The mission of Worldwide Marriage Encounter is to proclaim the value of Marriage and Holy Orders in the Church and in the world.To love is a decision, and we all need continued support in making that decision in our marriages. We learn from and give support to one another! If you have made a Marriage Encounter in the past, we would like to invite you to join the revitalized Knoxville community to again experience the joy of your Weekend. We are hoping to hold a Weekend in the Knoxville area, and we need you to help us be able to share the gift we’ve received with others. God calls us to call others! For details, contact Jack and Angel LaBate at jackandangel@bellsouth.net or 678-232-0080
Worldwide Marriage Encounter is for couples who desire a richer, fuller marriage. Since every marriage can be improved, even the best marriages can find new meaning and deeper joys through Marriage Encounter. Place: Atlanta Marriott Peachtree Corners Time: Begins at 8:00 pm on Friday and concludes on Sunday about 4:00 pm. Information: and registration application www.gatn-wwme.org Contact: Roger-Annie Borrello roger.annie.b@gmail.com or 678-242-9963
Uncover the secrets to a lasting, supportive, transformational marriage! For more than 50 years, Worldwide Marriage Encounter has helped over 3.5 million couples in almost 100 countries unlock the power of their relationships with new ways to do the “I do.” The Marriage Encounter experience helps you listen, share, and connect more deeply. There’s no group discussion. It’s just about the two of you learning to be the best, most loving and thriving couple you can be. Nine in ten couples who attend a Marriage Encounter recognize a long-lasting positive effect on their lives.
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Podcast discusses sacrament of marriage and Theology of the BodyIn her latest episodes of Scripture and the Spiritual Life, Sister Anna Marie McGuan discusses the sacrament of marriage, the unity of husbands and wives, and St. John Paul II’s Theology of Body. The talks were originally for the Office of Marriage Preparation and Enrichment’s Call to Love Conference and can help couples understand the call to make one another holy. You can listen to the first of the three-part series here.
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As social distancing and school closures continue, many families and church leaders are looking for ways to enrich their domestic churches, support others, and continue group initiatives virtually. We’ve compiled some of the best resources and tools in one page.
Can you imagine spending almost all your time with your spouse during the first few months of marriage? Many newlyweds are doing just that!
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The Virtues Free videos to help couples in isolation
In these trying times of social distancing and forced closed proximity with family members, tensions can rise in our relationships that are destructive to the marriage and the family. This is a time for us to remember the importance of four important virtues in our life: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance. The absence of these is detrimental to any relationship. To the extent that we practice them we build up our relationships within the family and beyond.
“Moderation and prudence, justice and fortitude… nothing in life is more useful than these.” Wisdom 8:7
We at SIX DATES want to share four short videos on these virtues to benefit all couples locked up in their homes feeling bored or stressed or anxious. We offer these videos FREE during this COVID-19 crisis.
John and Teri Bosio
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Contact Us
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Deacon Al Forsytheaforsythedioknox.orgDirector
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Carolyn Kringsckringsdioknox.orgAdministrative Assistant
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