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Advent Donate – Support Couples
Disadvantaged Couples Program Support couples in disadvantaged communities with your donation dollar, your networks and your prayers this Advent Season! It could be the strain of holiday season expenses, or couples spending greater lengths of time together, but at this…
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#3 Your Family of Origin
Our family of origin is the most influential formation because our early childhood experiences created the foundation through which all other experiences were interpreted. We like to think that we are independent thinkers and our own person. The truth is, we are products of our upbringing and experiences. Guest: Would you be willing to join…
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The Family is Holy Ground
October 7 marks the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. How might this feast be relevant to marriage and family life? In 1571, a vast Ottoman navy was poised to invade Europe. The Christian forces had already suffered numerous defeats as the Ottomans expanded across the Mediterranean. Putting his support behind a coalition of…
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SLMK Sample Topic
SmartLoving Marriage Kit Sample Topic | Mission: Marriage PRAYER Heavenly Father, we praise you and thank you for blessing us with each other. You call us to Love, to be your messenger of unconditional, unrelenting love and encouragement to each other. Forgive us for the times we have failed to do this for each other. Grant…
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MK Leaders Formation Feedback
Feedback – Leader Formation Course 2022 Now that you have graduated from the Marriage Kit Leader’s formation course we would like you to prayerfully consider the next steps in enriching marriages in your community. Watch the video message below: Your Feedback is so important to us!
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Donate – Support Couples
Disadvantaged Communities Program Support couples in disadvantaged communities with your donation dollar, your networks and your prayers! FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP Support Disadvantaged Communities We know that Australia, USA, UK and NZ are lucky countries and for most…
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Deep Impact Conversations
“How was your day?” It’s one of the most common questions couples ask each other and either leads to a dead-end response like, “fine” or “busy” (which usually means “I don’t want to talk about it”), or a long-winded description of meetings, frustrations, errands and other ‘busy’ stuff. It’s what we call a ‘data transfer’…
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#1 Marriage as a Mission
What does it mean to make ‘marriage our mission’? With our guest, Philipa Caulfield, we break it down and explore how we’ve done it and why we need it. Guest: Philipa Caulfield, with her husband Luke, are SmartLoving super-sponsors. They’ve been accompanying engaged couples for over ten years and have featured in some of the…
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Conversations
Welcome to SmartLoving Conversations A place to discuss all things Catholic marriage Married life is messy! Hosted by Francine Pirola and Laura Cain, our live conversations seek to go deeper into the mystery – and the messy reality – of living Catholic marriage. With our guests, we explore love, marriage, family and living our Catholic…
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The Eleventh Commandment
When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, he added a postscript for parents: passing on the faith makes parents the first – and most important – educators. Over a period of 24 years, our five children attended Catholic education across six schools. These schools included the local parish school, two private schools, and three regional…
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