• Celebrate Marriage
• Worldwide Marriage Encounter
• Retrouvaille
• 50th Anniversary Mass
• Marriage Initiative
• Marriage Initiative parish events
• World Marriage Day

Celebrate Marriage

Celebrate Marriage is an enrichment day for married couples.  Take the time you deserve to deepen your love, bring more joy into your relationship, and build a stronger marital foundation. 

"To set out on the path of the married vocation means to learn married love day by day, year by year: love according to soul and body, love that is patient, is kind, love does not insist on its own way... and does not rejoice at wrong; love that rejoices in the right, love that endures all things."  --John Paul II

• April 5, 2008 • Orange County Sacred Heart Parish, Monroe (Orange Co.)

• April 12, 2008 • St. Raymond’s Parish, Bronx

• May 17, 2008 • St. Stanislaus Parish, Pleasant Valley (Dutchess Co.)

To see a flyer for more information, please click here.

To inquire about a Celebrate Marriage Day in your area, to schedule a day in your parish, or to share the joys of your marriage by helping facilitate the program, please contact Nancy Rizzi, at (212) 371-1011, ext. 3190, or email her, at nancy.rizzi@archny.org.

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Worldwide Marriage Encounter

Our office collaborates with Worldwide Marriage Encounter.  The Marriage Encounter weekend is a positive, private experience for married couples who want to work at revitalizing their marriage, whether married in a religious or civil ceremony. The weekend is designed to enrich and deepen the joys a couple share together and is beneficial to couples of all ages and years married, from a short time to many years.

To see a flyer for more information, please click here.

Upcoming Marriage Encounter weekends:

Retrouvaille

Our office also supports the efforts of Retrouvaille (which means "rediscovery").  Retrouvaille is a weekend program with follow-ups, for couples whose marriage is in serious difficulty or trouble and in jeopardy of ending (due to past or present addiction, adultery, or other grave issues), and who want to make it work.

The program offers the chance to rediscover yourself, your spouse, and a loving relationship in your marriage.  It has a proven track record in successfully saving marriages.  It is a Catholic program open to people of all faiths.

Retrouvaille weekends are held in the New York metropolitan area, in New Jersey, on Long Island, and in Connecticut.  For more information, please visit the Retrouvaille website.

Retrouvaille weekends in northern New Jersey:

For more information, please call

Marie Ryan, Family Life Office - Diocese of Paterson, NJ, at (973) 777-8818. 

To register, please contact Pat & Roger today, at (201) 251-1031.

Retrouvaille weekends in Newark, NJ:

For more information, or to register today, please call

John & Karen Panariello, at (732) 276-7695. 

For additional information about weekends in New Jersey, please contact

Fr. Claude Lenehan, OFM - Holy Cross Friary, Bronx, NY, at (718) 378-1170.

Retrouvaille weekends on Long Island:

For more information on these weekends or to register,

please call (800) 470-2230,

or click here to email Lisa & Neil DeStefano today or here for a flyer (pdf) on upcoming the Sept. 7-9 Retrouvaille event.

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