3) Sponsor & Engaged Couple Meetings
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6 home meetings (usually with dinner) together with the engaged and mentor couples together going through the Witness to Love program.
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Login Online, then choose your session video and follow along in your workbook
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Chapters include: Courage to Love, School of Love, Support of Love, Gift of Love, Summit of Love, Labor of Love
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Each Chapter is divided into Sections that are to be done before the meeting, with the mentor couple, and then after your meeting
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Remember the MPC is there to help you along the way
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Witness To Love
A CATHOLIC MARRIAGE PREP RENEWAL MINISTRY - MORE INFO HERE
Marriage Prep that works to connect couples to their parishes through mentors and powerful online resources!
THE STORY OF WITNESS TO LOVE
Mary-Rose and Ryan Verret noticed newly married couples were missing in many Catholic parishes. The Verrets began a seven-year process of interviewing over 400 engaged couples through their work at their diocese and later at their parish. During these hundreds of interviews, they realized that even the best marriage conferences, natural family planning classes, and their own parish’s extensive marriage prep course — which included marriage catechesis and mentor couples selected by the pastor — were not sufficient for success. The Verret’s discovered that what was needed was an authentic connection to parish life through the engaged couple’s choice of a mentor couple whom they knew and admired. Trust and existing relationships were missing in the standard marriage-prep mentor format. In creating Witness to Love they made a program that speaks to the everyday struggles and joys of newlyweds, while giving them parish lifelines of connection that last beyond their wedding day.
WHY WITNESS TO LOVE
Allowing engaged couple to choose their own mentors is key to experiencing the depth of Witness to Love.
In the most recent Synod there was a call for a Marriage Catechumenate to address the reality of isolation and lack of parish involvement that is leading to so many divorces of today’s young couples. Witness to Love addresses this urgent pastoral issue so engaged couples experience the Church not as strangers, but as a committed and life-giving family of faith. Mentors who meet the basic requirements of this model become an essential part of the catechumenate team as the “trusted” means of communicating what must be revealed about marriage through Jesus to the engaged couple. Trust is required to believe that marriage is a means of salvation that should always be indissoluble, unitive, and procreative. It is within the trusted relationship between the mentors and the engaged that the marriage remains strong, is formed from love, is strengthened by good catechesis and is nourished by prayers and a sacramental life. Deep conversations, encounters with Christ, and renewal are available consistently for both the mentors and engaged couple.