GROUP 2

CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE AND PARENTING

GROUP MEMBERS:
Clarisse Barjose, Dianne Cabato, Herly Calapis, Rgilaine Cipriano, Faye Marcos,
Karlo Pareja, Jace Santos, Natalie Serrano
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• Pre-marital pregnancies
• Elopement
• Economic caused forced separation
• Infidelities of public officials and media personalities
• Eroticism in the form of pornography
• Drug related crimes
• Legislations on abortion and divorce
• Separation of a husband from his wife or of both from their children due to overseas
work. (P.2)
• Often there is little preparation for marriage. (P.2)
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• Now, only few exercises the following of community patterns. (Page 39, Par 50)
• Now,many spouses fails to offer the "obedience of faith." (Page 40, par 51)

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• Focuses on marriage. They will not lived together unless they are not yet married. They put
importance in their marriage because this will secure the family they're planning to build.
Familiaris Consortio
The Church must therefore promote better and more intensive programs of marriage preparation, in order
to eliminate as far as possible the difficulties that many married couples find themselves in, and even more
in order to favor positively the establishing and maturing of successful marriages.

Marriage preparation has to be seen and put into practice as a gradual and continuous process. It includes
three main stages: remote, proximate and immediate preparation.

Remote preparation begins in early childhood, in that wise family training which leads children to discover
themselves as being endowed with a rich and complex psychology and with a particular personality with its
own strengths and weaknesses.
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Upon this basis there will subsequently and gradually be built up the proximate preparation, which from the
suitable age and with adequate catechesis, as in a catechumenal process-involves a more specific
preparation for the sacraments, as it were, a rediscovery of them.

The immediate preparation for the celebration of the sacrament of Matrimony should take place in the
months and weeks immediately preceding the wedding, so as to give a new meaning, content and form to
the so-called premarital enquiry required by Canon Law.

This preparation is not only necessary in every case, but is also more urgently needed for engaged couples
that still manifest shortcomings or difficulties in Christian doctrine and practice.
Amoris Leititia
They should be helped to perceive the attraction of a complete union that elevates and perfects the social
dimension of existence, gives sexuality its deepest meaning, and benefits children by offering them the best
context for their growth and development.
(Page 155;205)
Virtues like Chastity proves invaluable for the genuine growth of love between persons.
(Page 156;206)
The need for specific programmes of marriage preparation aimed at giving couples a genuine experience of
participation in ecclesial life and a complete introduction to various aspects of family life.
(Page 156;206)
Encourage Christian communities to recognize the great benefit that they themselves receive from supporting
engaged couples as they grow in love.
(Page 156;207)
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Marriage preparation should be a kind of “initiation” to the sacrament of matrimony, providing couples with
the help they need to receive the sacrament worthily and to make a solid beginning of life as a family
(Page 157;207)
Discussion groups and optional talks on a variety of topics of genuine interest to young people can also
prove helpful. All the same, some individual meetings remain essential, since the primary objective is to
help each to learn how to love this very real person with whom he or she plans to share his or her whole
life.
(Page 158; 208)
The timely preparation of engaged couples by the parish community should also assist them to recognize
eventual problems and risks. In this way, they can come to realize the wisdom of breaking off a relationship
whose failure and painful aftermath can be foreseen.
(Page 159;209)
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One partner clearly recognizes the other’s weak points, he or she needs to have a realistic trust in the possibility of
helping to develop the good points that counterbalance them, and in this way to foster their human growth.
(Page159;210)
Both short-term and long-term marriage preparation should ensure that the couple do not view the wedding
ceremony as the end of the road, but instead embark upon marriage as a lifelong calling based on a firm and
realistic decision to face all trials and difficult moments together.
(Page 160;211)
In their preparation for marriage, the couple should be encouraged to make the liturgical celebration a profound
personal experience and to appreciate the meaning of each of its signs.
(Page 162;213)
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GROUP MEMBERS:
Clarisse Barjose
Dianne Cabato
Herly Calapis
Rgilaine Cipriano
Faye Marcos
Karlo Pareja
Jace Santos
Natalie Serrano