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• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Some Reactions
• I Love You
• Contact/Sign-up Inforamtion

FAQ. (Browse through the following FAQs or select those of particular interest from the list below.)

• So exactly what does happen on the weekend?
• Who can Attend?
• Is Marriage Encounter something new?
• How long does it last?
• How do we sign up?

So exactly what does happen on the weekend?
A team of three volunteer married couples and a priest give a number of presentations-sharing experiences from their lives. The presentations are sometimes moving, sometimes amusing, but always very personal. Their purpose is to inspire the couples attending the weekend to examine the feelings about themselves and about the marriage. Though the team sets the atmosphere, husbands and wives actually give the weekend to one another using a new communication technique learned on the weekend. The sharing takes place in the privacy of the couple's room.

Who can Attend?
Marriage Encounter is for any married couple, no matter how long they have been married, how old they are or what their religious beliefs may be. It's simply designed to make good marriages even better. You may not need a weekend, but you definitely deserve it!

Is Marriage Encounter something new?
No, Marriage Encounter was developed in Spain in the mid 1950's by Fr Gabriel Calvo and several married couples. The first encounter in America was held in 1966. Since then it has spread couple by couple, coast to coast. In cities and towns around the world, millions of couples have re-discovered romance and improved communications through their weekend.

How long does it last?
The weekend begins at 8:00 pm, Friday night and ends Sunday evening about 6:00 pm. All meals are provided except Friday night.

How do we sign up?

For more inforamtion and/or to inquire about signing up for Marriage Encounter, please e-mail:

info@hredeemer.org

Some Reactions

• "Bob and I no longer celebrate our wedding anniversary once a year. Since Marriage Encounter we celebrate our marriage every day!"

• "Mary and I have been married for 25 years and we thought we knew everything about each other. Thanks to Marriage Encounter we're really getting to know one another better."

• "Rick and I love each other very much, but we felt as if the world was slowly pushing us apart. Daily problems of money, job, and children were steadily becoming more important than our relationship. Marriage Encounter had helped to put things back into proper perspective for us. It's great!"

• "We had a good marriage. There was nothing Tom wouldn't do for me. But I wanted more than that and got it. Marriage Encounter has given us a closeness we've never before known."

• "Before Marriage Encounter, all Jim and I ever talked about were the kids, his job, the house or money. Now we talk about us."

• "When some friends suggested that Sheila and I make a Marriage Encounter we were shocked and more than a little hurt. We were very happily married and, frankly, it surprised us that they thought we needed 'marriage counseling.' When we finally told them how we felt, they laughed and said that they had suggested the Encounter because we were a happily married couple. Now, I'm glad they did. We got an awful lot out of it precisely because we brought a lot to it."

• "It was Becky's idea to go on the weekend. I went along strictly to avoid an argument. I'm sure glad we went. We really got a lot out of it."

• "Tony and I have been married for five years. During that time I've gotten ahead in my job and settled down nicely into my marriage. Marriage Encounter showed me how I can get ahead in my marriage too."

I Love You.

I Love You
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you.

I love you
Not only for what you have made of yourself
But for what you are making of me.

I love you
For the part of me that you bring out.

I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart
And passing over all the foolish weak things-
That you can't help dimly seeing there.
And Drawing out into the light
All the Beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked quite far enough to find.

I love you because you are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern, but a temple;
Out of my works, of my every day
Not a reproach, but a song.

I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed could have done
To make me feel my goodness.
You have done it
With your touch,
With your words,
With yourself.

 

Contact/Sign-up Inforamtion

For more inforamtion and/or to inquire about signing up for Marriage Encounter, please e-mail:

info@hredeemer.org