Covenant Love, A Retreat

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Covenant Love, A Retreat

• Through talks, sharing, reflection, prayer,
  couples deepen their understanding of marriage
  their commitment to all it requires.

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Covenant Love objectives

• Primary objective
• See marriage as a sacred covenant
• ordained by God

• Secondary objectives
• Sacramental weekend
• Retreat
• Prayerful reflection
• Sacraments
• Quiet practical reflections
• Dialogue

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How we do it? 6 talks

• Reflections on the theology of the body
• the meaning of the body soul in words, thoughts,
  actions

• Beginning with first chapter of Genesis
• Marriage . . .
• . . . as primordial sacrament
• . . . corrupted by sin
• . . . resurrected in the person of Jesus

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6 Covenant Love Sessions

• The Blessed Trinity
• A Covenant Relationship
• The Human Person
• Gods expression of Himself
• Covenant Love

• Two Become One
• Your Partnership with God
• Spirituality of marriage
• Light to an unbelieving world

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Couples Manual

• Summary of the themes
• Note taking section
• Ideas to talk to fiance about
• Notes
• Journal
• Group discussion
• Personal reflections
• Exercises for integration and dialogue

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Survey Results of Covenant Love

• 55 of the participants in the retreat state that
  the experience deepened their faith.
• 33 signed up for NFP classes
• 97 placed a higher value on the retreat than
  what they expected

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Covenant Love, A Retreat

• DiVietri Bozza clearly understand marriage as
  a vocation, a communion of persons open to the
  gift of life who are called to cooperate with
  God.  
• Peter F. Ryan, S.J.
• Associate Professor of Moral Theology, Mount St.
  Mary's Seminary ,Emmitsburg, MD