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Strategies for Preparing the Wedding Liturgy with Couples
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Amoris Laetitia
planning goes beyond celebration of the sacrament
Vatican II - citing Evangelii Guadium - the Gospel message should always resound; the core of that message, the kerygma, is what is "most beautiful, most excellent, most appealing and at the same time most necessary."(50)
St. JPII's Familiaris Consortio - the call and demands of the Spirit resound in the events of history...the Church can also be guided to a more profound understanding of the inexhaustible mystery of marriage and the family (8)
Pope Benedict's Dues Caritas Est - Doesn't the Church...blow the whistle just when the joy which is the Creator's gift offers us a happiness which itself a certain foretaste of the Divine? (142)
CCC
Summa Theologiae
St. JPII's Familiaris Consortio - the call and demands of the Spirit resound in the events of history...the Church can also be guided to a more profound understanding of the inexhaustible mystery of marriage and the family (8)
Pope Benedict's Dues Caritas Est - Doesn't the Church...blow the whistle just when the joy which is the Creator's gift offers us a happiness which itself a certain foretaste of the Divine? (142)
CCC
Summa Theologiae
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Preparing
- Initiation
- Remote -begins at birth
- Missionary families & own families
- Discussion groups & individual
- Help couples to recognize eventual problems & risks and the commitment to help develop good and to sacrifice
- Lifelong journey
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"The Joy of Love" Calls for
- Listening to the joys and hungers of couples
- Accompanying them on their journey from preparation until death
- Assisting them in discerning God in their day to day living
- Engaging them in the mission of the Church
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Opportunities to Listen
- Initial Meeting
- FOCCUS
- Marriage Prep
- Mentor Couples
- Couple Dinners
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Opportunities to Assist with Discernment of God in their life
- Questions
- Answering questions with questions
- Reflecting back what you heard
- Praying
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Preparing for the Ceremony
- Modest & simple
- Become the sacrament & words of consent
- Reality that influences the whole married life
- Conjugal life becomes in a certain sense liturgical (AL, 215)
- Meditate/pray: readings, rings
- Marriage between Catholic and other baptized persons promote the value of the ecumenical movement & Disparity of cult an opportunity for interreligious dialogue
Pray, pray, pray
Pray the preparation
Have the community pray for the couples
Use the blessing of the Engaged within the community
Pray the preparation
Have the community pray for the couples
Use the blessing of the Engaged within the community
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First Years
- Complete the process of maturing
- Marriage is not once for all, work in progress
- Young love needs to keep dancing toward the future with immense hope
- At each new stage, there is a need to sit down and renegotiate
- Each marriage is a kind of "salvation history"
- Pastoral care must encourage the couple to be generous in bestowing life
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Resources
- Time and space
- Mentor couples
- Shared daily rituals
- Confessions, spiritual direction, occasional retreats
- Neighborhood couple groups, talks by experts, counseling
- Take advantage of opportunities: Baptism, First Holy Communion, funerals, weddings
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