The Family Life Office provides formation opportunities for priests and parish pre-Cana teams. Our staff can assist pre-Cana teams in assessing their program needs and provide a half-day Formation Workshop for clergy and team members. This Workshop includes a discussion of the mission and purpose of marriage preparation, an introduction to the theology and sacramentality of marriage, and recommendations for resources to use with engaged couples. The Family Life Office staff will also assist priests, deacons and lay people in initiating marriage preparation programs in parishes. We can make recommendations for identifying couples and individuals to participate on the pre-Cana team, assist as needed in program development, and provide a Formation Workshop for the new team.

For those priests and teams utilizing the FOCCUS Inventory, the Family Life Office can also provide a FOCCUS Inventory Facilitator's Workshop. This workshop introduces clergy, as well as individuals and couples identified by the pastor, to the FOCCUS Inventory: proctoring the Inventory, scoring and generating a report, and its use with engaged couples as a tool to facilitate communication between the future spouses.

For more information, or to schedule a Formation Workshop or FOCCUS Inventory Facilitator's Workshop, please contact:

Ann M. Hanincik, M.T.S.
Phone: 215-587-5639
ahaninci@adphila.org

Resources for Parish Marriage Preparation

Please feel free to copy and use these hand outs and brochures in marriage preparation, or for distribution in the parish.

An Approach to Preparing Engaged couples for the Sacrament of Marriage: Encounter, Communion, and Mission
This is the vision that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has for our marriage preparation programs, including some concepts which we suggest for incorporation into parish models of marriage preparation.

Communicating Means Listening (English Version)

Communicating Means Listening (Spanish Version)

10 Principles for Good Communication (English Version)

10 Principles for Good Communication (Spanish Version)

Disagreements: Resolution and Reconciliation

Natural Family Planning – FAQ

Natural Family Planning Resources and Support Brochure

NFP Class Schedule Insert for NFP Brochures

Pre-Cana Class Certificates for Parishes

Bi-Fold Flyer on Resources for Engaged Couples

Other Recommended Publishers’ Resources

List of General Resources (Books, Websites, Brochures) the Family Life Office Recommends

Links to Articles and Documents on Marriage and Family