Celebrating Marriage Week
7th - 14th of Feb 2025
This year's theme "Pursuing a Lasting Love"
Ideas on how to encourage your couples to invest in their relationship.
Intentional Couple's Micro-Course (FREE)
St Valentine's Day Handout (FREE)
Support for Spouses in Troubled Marriages
Give them a FREE Gift: The Intentional Couple Micro-Course
What is it?
The Intentional Couple Micro-Course is a short one hour course which will give your couples a taster of a longer marriage enrichment course called the Marriage Kit.
It is free for any married couple.
The experience includes videos and activities for the couple to complete together, topics include:
Why marriage?
For better or worse.
The power of prayer.
Ideas to Promote
Copy and paste the below text into your parish bulletin and website:
Words for your Website or Bulletin:
It is always good to be reminded to invest in your marriage. A strong marriage overflows with love and compassion to your family and beyond. The marriage apostolate, SmartLoving has created “The Intentional Couple” micro-course as a free gift for all married couples, visit: www.smartloving.org/gift
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Print these brochures and put them at the back of the Church for Marriage Week
Print here.
FREE Resource: Keeping Romance Alive - St Valentine's Day Handout
In this handout couples will reflect on how to keep the romance alive:
They will learn to stay in touch with mystery of the other and the handout gives three simple habits to help their romance grow and endure.
- Hear the Mystery - Share with each other a cherished hope you have for your future.
- See the Mystery - Make time to watch each other at work or play
- Speak the Mystery - Express your wonder and gratitude for all that the other is in your life.
They will also learn facts about St Valentine and why he is the patron saint of engaged couples and happy marriages.
Print out this handout to give to your couples.
Marriage Kit - Use coupon code: MarriageWeek25 (for 50% off)
SmartLoving Marriage Kit is an online course of 5 lessons which teaches couples how to communicate and resolve conflict whilst giving practical tools like “Daily Appreciation” rituals. Designed for a secular audience, yet consistent with Catholic teaching, the course is well suited for couples in mixed-faith or low-faith marriages as well as for practicing Catholic couples. Available as an online course, it is available any time from the convenience and safety of home. Visit: www.smartloving.org/marriage-kit
A Leaders Pack is available for those who want to host the marriage Kit as a group experience.
Support for Spouses in Troubled Marriages
Catholics in troubled marriages are often reluctant to draw parish attention to their situation so having information readily available on parish and diocesan websites is a practical way to provide support.
SmartLoving BreakThrough is a online course for spouses in distressed marriages. It is designed for individual spouses and does not contain couple activities, making it an excellent option for those with a spouse who is unwilling to participate in couple’s counselling.
A Leaders Resource is available for those who wish to facilitate a group experience, or who wish to integrate the online course with their couples/spouses in counselling.