Catholic and Enjoying It!
Cincinnati, – If we want holy families, we first need strong marriages. That’s the mission behind a newly penned book titled “Your Love Story”: to provide deep and effective formation for young couples facing the world today.
Couple to Couple League, an organization dedicated to promoting healthy, lifelong marriages through NFP education, hopes to raise enough money to release the resource for use in marriage prep and for newly married couples.
“There are so many factors in our culture that work to choke out the potential for strong and healthy marriages. The Church’s teachings on marriage, family and sexuality are like the oxygen these young people need to take root and grow,” Michael Manhart, executive director of Couple to Couple League said.
But the book – a short and appealing presentation of the Catholic vision of marriage – won’t be printed without help from the community. Couple to Couple League is launching a crowdfunding campaign to make this resource a reality.
“We are asking for support from the community so that we can more adequately answer the urgent need for formation that families and marriages have today,” Manhart said.
The book, authored by Bill Turrentine, a deacon serving in the archdiocese of San Francisco, is an easy to read guide to the beauty of Christian marriage and family life meant to inspire sacrificial love in young people getting married today.
Deacon Turrentine and his wife have been working with young engaged and newly married couples for 30 years through their parish and their work with Couple to Couple League.
“There is an urgent need to reach out to young couples and show them the beauty of a marriage lived in Christ. In “Your Love Story”, I want to communicate that the Catholic teachings on marriage and sexuality are the fruit of God’s astonishing love for us,” Turrentine said.
“Your Love Story” aims to be a powerful resource for priests, deacons, and lay leaders working with engaged and married couples. It is written to inspire all those who are interested in reviving the beauty and promise of exclusive, lifelong marriage open to the blessings of having and raising children. It covers everything from the sacramental meaning of marital consent to the beauty of Natural Family Planning as a way of practicing openness and discernment.
To learn more about the “Your Love Story” project or to donate to the campaign, visit http://yourlovestory-book.com/
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