Marriage preparatory course is an excellent idea
Many marriages are falling apart today. Under such circumstances, the Catholic Church has done a commendable job by making the couples do a marriage preparatory course before the couple enters into the holy sacrament of matrimony.
A few of the topics that are spoken about at the preparatory course include marriage being a sacrament, handling differences and conflicts, how to handle finances, intimacy and first pregnancy, abortion and marriage procedures and the documentation work that goes in it.
Snehalaya Family Service Center at Mahim is the place where all young couples in Mumbai, who intend to get married, have to go in order to register for the course. But in order to make life easy for the couples in Navi Mumbai, the same course has been started in the satellite city that too with the consent of the center and its director Fr Cajetan Menezes. Fr John Barretto, the parish priest of Holy Spirit Shurch, Kalamboli is a key element of these marriage preparatory courses that are conducted in Vashi at Scared Heart Church. Besides, there are also trained couples and doctors who are the resource people and help in taking the course ahead.
In today's world any relationship is bound to have its own ups and down. Couples through this course are made to understand that marriage is a huge responsibility. Besides, they also need to know that they both share an equal part in this sacrament. Even in cases where a catholic is marrying a person from another caste and would like to marry in the church they have to do this marriage preparatory course. This is the first step of the marriage and one of the first documents that the priest will ask you about.
Everyone is a different human being and so differences are bound to be there. At this course the couples are taught how to handle these differences and accept each other. Aspects such as bringing up children and natural family planning are also touched upon.
Sacred Heart Church conducts this course only in English and the people who are more comfortable in doing these courses in languages like Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam and Gujarati are asked to go to Snehalaya itself where the preparatory sessions are conducted in different languages.
Many people are seen giving more importance to matters like career and ambitions, and at such times aspects like family life almost gets a back seat. The preparatory course comes to the rescue of such people. This course also has doctors and psychologists imparting practical knowledge relating to marriage.
Thus marriage preparatory course is an excellent idea and all the other communities too should conduct this course.
Many marriages are falling apart today. Under such circumstances, the Catholic Church has done a commendable job by making the couples do a marriage preparatory course before the couple enters into the holy sacrament of matrimony.
A few of the topics that are spoken about at the preparatory course include marriage being a sacrament, handling differences and conflicts, how to handle finances, intimacy and first pregnancy, abortion and marriage procedures and the documentation work that goes in it.
Snehalaya Family Service Center at Mahim is the place where all young couples in Mumbai, who intend to get married, have to go in order to register for the course. But in order to make life easy for the couples in Navi Mumbai, the same course has been started in the satellite city that too with the consent of the center and its director Fr Cajetan Menezes. Fr John Barretto, the parish priest of Holy Spirit Shurch, Kalamboli is a key element of these marriage preparatory courses that are conducted in Vashi at Scared Heart Church. Besides, there are also trained couples and doctors who are the resource people and help in taking the course ahead.
In today's world any relationship is bound to have its own ups and down. Couples through this course are made to understand that marriage is a huge responsibility. Besides, they also need to know that they both share an equal part in this sacrament. Even in cases where a catholic is marrying a person from another caste and would like to marry in the church they have to do this marriage preparatory course. This is the first step of the marriage and one of the first documents that the priest will ask you about.
Everyone is a different human being and so differences are bound to be there. At this course the couples are taught how to handle these differences and accept each other. Aspects such as bringing up children and natural family planning are also touched upon.
Sacred Heart Church conducts this course only in English and the people who are more comfortable in doing these courses in languages like Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam and Gujarati are asked to go to Snehalaya itself where the preparatory sessions are conducted in different languages.
Many people are seen giving more importance to matters like career and ambitions, and at such times aspects like family life almost gets a back seat. The preparatory course comes to the rescue of such people. This course also has doctors and psychologists imparting practical knowledge relating to marriage.
Thus marriage preparatory course is an excellent idea and all the other communities too should conduct this course.
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