For hurting marriages to help them see the possibility of reconciliation and healing in their marriage relationship.
Print the weekly reading in the parish bulletin and encourage couples and families to read them together, share and pray.
Encourage couples in your parish to go out on a weekly or bimonthly date night. If money is tight, a drive to a corner coffee or ice cream shop or watching the stars together from the backyard. The important thing is spending time alone with each other, focused on the relationship.
Respect couple/family time by limiting parish ministry demands on their time. The couple needs to have time to build their intimate relationship and they need time to build relationships as a family.
Recognize couples: couple of the month, anniversaries, etc.
Homilies on marriage, real family life, Theology of the Body, Marriage Encounter
Enrichment opportunities: for newly married, coping, World Marriage Day, Supper and Substance, single parent, pre-school parents, according to age, speakers, videos.
