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 What is Marriage Preparation?
In the Archdiocese
of Boston, Marriage Preparation is broken into three
phases.
Phase I: Introductory sessions (with
the priest, deacon and/or certified pastoral associate)
The objectives of this phase are:
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to enhance or
initiate your relationship with the Church,
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to explain and
invite you to reflect on and further appropriate
the Church’s understanding of marriage,
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to establish your
freedom to marry,
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to overview the
whole preparation process, and
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and to invite
you to live your married lives in communion with
the Church.
Phase II: Engaged Couple
Workshops
These Workshops are what are publicized in this
brochure. The objectives are:
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to allow you to
benefit from the experience and Christian witness
of the team couples who are living the vocation
of marriage,
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to present to
you some of the basic elements in the martial relationship:
self-knowledge, communication, marital adjustments,
spirituality of marriage and family life, the Church’s
teaching on family planning, and finances, and
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to assist you
in your growing appreciation of marriage as more
than a relationship of mutual attraction.
Phase III: Follow up sessions
(with the Minister)
This is an opportunity for you...
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to reflect on
your experience of the Workshops,
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to respond to
any question or difficulties raised by the Workshop
experience,
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to be assisted
in your ongoing appropriation of the Church’s
understanding of marriage,
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to plan (in final
detail) the Wedding Mass or Ceremony,
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to be encouraged
in your regular practice of your faith, and
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to ensure that
all of the canonical and civil requirements for
marriage are completed.
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