Mission ... Content ... Catering ... Counselling
Mission of the Pre-marriage Course
"Together" Pre-marriage Course (held on one or more Saturdays each month - except August) helps engaged couples to focus mentally, emotionally and spiritually on their forthcoming marriage, and what qualities will enhance it. It is delivered in the form of interactive "sessions" rather than as straight lectures. The one-day course consists of four Sessions, with sessions 1-3 each lasting 90 minutes; session 4 lasts just 60 minutes [total just under 5 hours]. It should help couples clarify their expectations and confirm their commitment to partnership.
Content of our 4 Sessions
1. Relationship & Communication [09.30 to 11.00] Communicating; trust; honesty; realistic expectations; coping with conflict; reconciliations, etc.
2. Sexuality & Responsibility [11.30 to 13.00] Male/female anatomy; awareness & lovemaking; approaches to family planning. Keeping love alive.
3. Marriage: Law & Sacrament [14.00 to 15.30] What law and society says on Marriage; Catholic teaching on Marriage; options for your Nuptial ceremony.
4. Facing Life Together [16.00 to 17.00] A married couple share their experience of being in partnership, from dating to child-bearing & rearing.
Catering at our Course
Basic catering is provided for all our course participants in the form of "snacks to tide you over". Tea/Coffee break (& biscuits) in the mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Soup & sandwiches are served at 1 pm, by way of a light lunch.
If diabetic or vegetarian, please make any special catering needs known to our caterer, by mid-morning.
A relationship problem may arise that an engaged or married couple can't resolve on their own. Rather than involve family members or close friends, who might too quickly take sides – and make the problem worse – it's worth seeking help from a trained counsellor. What counselling offers is an area of calm, where things can be seen again in perspective and a middle ground can be reached. Various counselling agencies offer this service, in total confidentiality.
Even an engaged couple may run into a problem serious enough to benefit from counselling. Our course does not provide this service directly, but we can arrange referral to a counsellor, for those who so wish. Phone our Coordinator at 01-296-4275. Counselling tends to be non-directive and non-judgmental. It aims at clarity about issues clouded over by emotion, but offers no instant or facile answers; rather, it seeks solutions that convince the client. Accord Marriage Guidance Agency, has a counselling service around the country. Phone 01 478 4400
Looking forward to meeting you at one of our courses, soon!
Fr Pat Rogers (Course Director)
Mount Argus
Dublin 6W
tel: 01 499 2000>>>>>>>
