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Celebrate Marriage Days -
A day of enrichment for married couples

Attend a day that will re-energize your marriage and deepen your faith!  Put the world’s pressures on hold for a few hours and focus on the most important person in your life---your spouse!

Take quality time to enhance communication and build a stronger marital and family foundation. “Celebrate Marriage” is beneficial to couples of all ages and years married. The day ends with renewal of wedding vows.

Click here to download/print a brochure for the Celebrate Marriage events.

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.

 

"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

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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 and to register, please click here.

 

Upcoming Marriage Encounter weekends:

  • November 13-15, 2009 - Don Bosco Retreat Center, Stony Point

  • February 12-14, 2010 - Don Bosco Retreat Center, Stony Point

  • April 16-18, 2010 - Don Bosco Retreat Center, Stony Point

  • August 13-15, 2010 - Mt. Alvernia Retreat Center, Wappingers Falls

  • November 5-7, 2010 - Don Bosco Retreat Center, Stony Point

To register for a weekend: Call our Office, 212-371-1000, ext. 3190, or go to the local Marriage Encounter website and register online.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Convention
Atlantic City, NJ - June 25-27, 2010. 

A family convention with a widow/widowers track.  More info to follow.


FOR PRIESTS:
Check it out and turn on your speakers: http://www.wwmearchny.org/PRIESTCORNER.htm

Priest Registration Brochure


World Marriage Day 2010
Please click here for more information

 

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How Can You Help?
If you are interested in being a Marriage Enrichment Day presenter or interested in volunteering your time to help enrich marriages, please contact Nancy Rizzi, the Marriage Enrichment Coordinator, at Nancy.Rizzi@archny.org OR (646) 794-3190.

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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 of successfully saving marriages.  It is a Catholic-based 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.

  • 4/16/2010 - 4/18/2010 - Retrouvaille Weekend
    TROUBLED MARRIAGE??
      See www.HelpOurMarriage.com
    This weekend program will be held at the Westin Hotel, Morristown, NJ.
    For more information, or to register today, please call (732) 457-0959.

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.  Also see HelpOurMarriage.com for more info in Retrouvaille, a Catholic-based program open to all faiths.  Again, the next weekend is April 16-18, 2010, at the Westin Hotel, in Morristown, NJ.  For registration, please call (732) 457-0959.

 

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.

 

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Want to reduce your chance of divorce?

Click here for more info...

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Looking for movies to watch with your spouse?
Saturday Night At the Movies

  • Saturday March 13, 2010 - Staten Island - Holy Child Parish
    For more information contact: Nancy Rizzi at nancy.rizzi@archny.org

Click here for a handy list of Catholic movies.


Nancy A. Rizzi
Marriage Enrichment Coordinator 
nancy.rizzi@archny.org
646.794.3190

 

   

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