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| What is Marriage Encounter? |
Marriage Encounter is designed to give married couples the opportunity to examine their lives together . . . a time to share their feelings, their hopes, disappointments, joys and frustrations . . . and to do so openly and honestly in a face-to-face, heart-to-heart encounter with the one person they have chosen to live with for the rest of their life. The emphasis of Marriage Encounter is on communication between husband and wife, who spend a weekend together away from the distractions and the tensions of everyday life, to concentrate on each other.
It is not a retreat nor marriage clinic, nor group sensitivity. It's a unique approach aimed at revitalizing Marriage. This is a time for you and your spouse to be alone together, to rediscover each other and together focus on your relationship for an entire weekend. Every marriage deserves that kind of attention!
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| Who is Marriage Encounter for? |
Any married couple who desires a richer, fuller life together. A marriage can never be too good. Marriage Encounter is designed to deepen and enrich the joys a couple share together, whether they have been married for only a short time, or for many years.
Marriage Encounter is also for Priests and Religious except that the relationship of their focus is between the Priest or Religious and his or her "spouse"; the Body of Christ.
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| How does Marriage Encounter enhance a marriage? |
The Weekend presents each couple with the opportunity to get off the "treadmill of today's world"; to stop and take a fresh look at the two of them, their marriage, and their priorities.
The Weekend teaches a communication technique which permits each couple to explore important areas of their relationship in a spirit of love and understanding. By continuing the newly acquired technique begun on the weekend, husbands and wives continually grow closer together to live more joyful and purposeful lives. |
| Why would a priest or other religious attend? |
The Marriage Encounter Weekend is designed in such a way that both priests and religious can participate fully. The principles of love, commitment and effective communication translate quite readily to the relationship between a priest and his parish or any group to whom he ministers as well as to a religious community.
Priests who have made an Encounter weekend call the experience "life enhancing."
Worldwide Marriage Encounter invites you to attend. Please take advantage of our networking process by which we can help you get a replacement for the weekend you choose to attend. |
| What do others say about Marriage Encounter? |
"I place much of my hope for the future in Marriage Encounter."
-- Pope John Paul II
"Marriage Encounter is a powerful tool to strengthen marriage..."
-- William Cardinal Keeler
"...it proved to be one of the highlights of my life. I just wish that everyone who trusts my opinion would now accept this advice: attend a Marriage Encounter weekend at the earliest opportunity."
James C. Dobson, Ph.D.
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