A WAY OF PREPARATION FOR THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE (June 1992)

1. INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

a) Short introduction to the course

b) Introducing the catechists and their experience of christian marriage.

c) Introducing the couples

d) Reply to the question of, Why do you want to get married in Church?”

e) Reading from the Gospel, brief breaking of the Word by the responsible

2. CATECHESIS WHO IS GOD FOR YOU?

a) Questions to the couples such as in the initial catechesis(?)

b) Response: Outline natural religiosity, dechristianisation and the crisis of faith.

c) Who is God according to Abraham, Israel, St Paul and Jesus. d) Proclamation from the

Gospel and brief comment.

3. KERYGMA; THE PEANING OF LIFE

a) Dialogue with couples

-Who am 1?

-What is the meaning of my life?

-Who is Jesus Christ for me?

b) Announcement of the Kerygma: First part - Adam and Eve.

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4. KERYGMA: THE FORGIVENESS OF SIN

a) Announcement of the Kerygma: Second part - Jesus and Barrabas 1,) Forgiveness as

the fruit of faith and christian marriage

c) The sacrament of reconciliation as an experience of forgiveness

5. PENITENTIAL CELEBRATION

a) Liturgy of the Word.

b) General introduction to the sacrament of conversion and the experience of

forgiveness -

c) Liturgy of the Word

d) Confessions

e) Agape

6. MARRIAGE IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES

a) The Sacrament of Christian Marriage

b) The indissolubility of christian marriage in the Book of Genesis and in the Gospel of

Matthew (Mat 19)

c) Christian Marriage; sign of the Love of Christ for the Church in Eph. 5:25-33

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7. BEING OPEN TO LIFE IN THE CONJUGAL ACT

a) The holiness of the conjugal act

N Body language and the unitive and procreative aspect of the conjugal act

c) The three altars of matrimonial life: Eucharist, Nuptial bed and Table.

d) Magisterium of the Churcit Uumanae Vitae, Familiaris Consortio

8. LOVE OF LIFE AND RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD

a) Premarital relationships and chastity

b) Outline physiologicsal rhythms of fertility

c) Natural methods, contraception and abortion in the Church’s Teaching

d) Natural methods

9. QUESTIONNAIRE

a) Introduction to a questionnaire on the rite of marriage in relation to

- indissolubility

- being open to life and responsible parenthood.

li) Work in groups

c) Response and Catechesis on problems which have emerged

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10. THE MISSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY IN SOCIETY

a) Family and society today: the catechesis of the world and the mission of the christian

family.

1) Tra,wmission of faith to the children

c) Abortion, Divorce and in vitrio fertilization: in common mentality and in the Church’s

Teaching.

d) Crisis, forgiveness and conversion in the life of the couple and of the family.

e) The need of the family to be part of a christian community to support it and help it.

CON VIVE NCE

Saturday Evening:

Arrival and allocation of separate rooms.

Supper

Catechesis on 1 John I and 2:1-17 and 3 (vv?)

We have passed from death to life”

Go to bed in silence

Sunday morning: Lauds and Kerygrncz

Afternoon: meetings with groups; how to continue

Evening: Eucharist