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Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Several items here: This past week I received a sample marriage preparation packet from Dynamic Catholic, an organization that, as its name suggests, exists to produce materials that will help everybody become more dynamically Catholic. The marriage preparation program is entitled Better Together.
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ This past week we had another meeting of our Discipleship Talent Coordinators from each campus. We briefly looked at a discipleship ministry booklet that the coordinators put together, which begins to explain all of the different volunteer ministries happening in our parish. It’s
Read more →Dear Parishioners, A number of items are on my mind as I sit down to write this letter: -We had the funeral of Doris Phlipot. When I last met with Doris to anoint her and pray with her and bring Holy Communion to her, she spoke to
Read more →Dear Parishioners, As further follow-up to my beginning marriage preparation in our parish, I want to explain why cohabitation is something unacceptable. Forbidding cohabitation is not primarily a “no”; it is, rather, a huge “yes” to the beauty of married love and the truth of the body
Read more →Dear Parishioners, Because I recently began marriage preparation with two couples, I thought it was necessary in the last bulletin to present the marriage preparation program that we will be using. Because that program includes Natural Family Planning, I want to explain NFP a little bit more
Read more →Dear Parishioners, One of the many strange weaknesses of seminary training in the decades following Vatican II was the lack of concrete instruction on how to do marriage preparation. Thankfully, Pope Saint John Paul II’s famous encyclical Familiaris Consortio, “On the Christian Meaning of Family”, published in my
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