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Life, Marriage and Family

Supporting couples and families to build strong, joyful, and faith-filled relationships that reflect the love of Christ.

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Preparing for Marriage

The Catholic Church places a great importance on the Sacrament of Matrimony. To assist couples in establishing a strong foundation for their lifelong journey together, comprehensive marriage preparation is essential.

Engaged couples are encouraged to contact their local parish priest at least six months prior to their intended wedding date to begin the preparation process. This time allows for the necessary paperwork, spiritual guidance, and completion of an approved Marriage Preparation Course.

Marriage Preparation Programs

Discover approved courses and tools to help build a strong foundation for your future together.

Catholic Engaged Encounter (CEE)

A weekend retreat providing focused, uninterrupted time for couples to communicate deeply with each other about their future life together.

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SmartLoving Engaged

An online, self-paced marriage preparation course offering couples theological insights, practical relationship skills, and Catholic teaching on matrimony.

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Building the Domestic Church

Marriage is a lifelong journey of growth, love, and grace. Beyond the wedding day, the Church offers numerous resources to support, enrich, and heal marriages, helping couples to build a resilient and faith-filled "domestic church" within their homes.

Fertility Management

The Catholic church encourages all married couples to consciously and responsibly plan their families according to principles of generosity, openness to life, prudence and trust in God’s provision.

To assist you in this sacred responsibility, a number of resources are available to instruct you in Fertility Awareness Methods (FAMs). Based on the natural rhythms of a woman’s fertility cycle, these methods are completely natural, reliable, and are consistent with the vision of Catholic marriage.

SmartLoving Fertility Online Course

Based on the Sympto-Thermal method, the course incorporates scientific insights, relationship frameworks and Catholic Theology. It is included free with registration in SmartLoving Engaged. Individual coaching also available.

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Catholic Family Life

Looking for ideas and support in raising your children in the Catholic faith? Check out these resources.

CathFamily

An online database dedicated to assisting families in making the home the living heart of the church. Resources include printable handouts, craft activities, games, drama, recipes, and prayer rituals celebrating the seasonal feasts and Catholic culture.

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Support for Couples, Families, Individuals

Sometimes life throws you a curve ball; unemployment, sickness, conflict, trauma - you name it – there are any number of things that can make life hard. When you need support, we in the Catholic community want to help. Here are some of the services available.

Marriage Support

All marriages go through ups and downs. Sometimes, it can be very lonely in a marriage and you might be feeling anxious or uncertain about what you can do to get your relationship back on track. Whether your difficulties relate to communication, conflict, addictions, sickness or infidelity we encourage you to explore the resources available to you below.

SmartLoving SOS

A free information centre listing resources available to Catholic couples and spouses struggling in their marriage. This includes online courses, tele-counselling services, books, blogs and videos and features specialist services for infidelity, mid-life crises, trauma effects, addictions, and others. It is updated regularly.

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SmartLoving BreakThrough

Provides spouses in difficult marriages powerful tools to bring hope and healing to their situations through an online course and optional coaching.

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Infertility Support

Struggling with infertility, subfertility and miscarriage is a great burden for couples, especially when they so deeply desire to live out their vocation to welcome the gift of children from God. All may seem hopeless. In moments such as these, remember that despite infertility, couples can have a married life that is filled with love and meaning.