Worldwide Marriage Encounter is the world’s largest pro-marriage organization and promotes weekend experiences for couples who want to make their marriages better.
It offers married couples an opportunity to learn loving communication they can use for the rest of their lives. The weekend provides a chance to look deeply into a couple’s relationship with each other and with God.
Priests also are welcome, and a weekend can enrich their relationship with the Church and with the married couples they serve.
The emphasis of the Marriage Encounter weekend is communication between husbands and wives. The weekend provides time for couples to be together, away from the distractions of everyday life, while encouraging them to focus on communicating.
It is not a marriage clinic, group sensitivity training or a substitute for counseling. It is a unique approach to revitalizing and enriching a marriage. Worldwide Marriage Encounter teaches a communication method through presentations given by Catholic couples and a priest.
The things we learned during our Marriage Encounter weekend have helped our communication and our relationship. We learned new ways of communicating that we still use. Since our weekend, we can discuss our differences in a more loving and understanding way. We also learned about what a Catholic marriage should be.
Worldwide Marriage Encounter has had a positive effect on us and on many other local marriages. We would like to invite all married couples and priests to consider attending a weekend.
Upcoming weekends in the Columbus area are March 10-12 at Lancaster St. Mark Church (non-residential) and Sept. 8-10 at the Procter Center in London. The weekends begin at 8 p.m. Friday and run through 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, or to attend a Marriage Encounter weekend, contact Paul and Marilou Clouse at (614) 834-6880 or visit www.wwmecolumbus.org.
May God bless you and your marriage!
Steve and Patty Tennant, of Franklin Furnace, are parishioners of the Scioto Catholic consortium. They were married in 1974. The Tennants, along with Jim and Stacie Aman from Delaware, are co-leaders for Columbus Area Worldwide Marriage Encounter.