Married Life Resources

For Your Marriage

For Your Marriage helps couples at all stages of life to understand and live God’s plan for happy, holy marriages by providing educational and spiritual resources.

The website was launched in 2007 as part of the National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage, an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to communicate the meaning and value of married life for the Church and for society.

Marriage Encouragement and Resources

The MEM Library

Nativity’s Marriage Enrichment Ministry has a small library of books available for couples to borrow.  See our list of books!

If you have any Christian or Catholic marriage or relationship books you would like to donate, it would be greatly appreciated!  Books can be dropped off at the Nativity parish front desk.  Do you also have a book that you recommend?  Let us know at: marriage@nativityburke.org

MEM Books

Building a Eucharistic Marriage

Authored by Catholic Marriage Therapist, Greg Schutte, MSW, LISW-S, Building a Eucharistic Marriage is a 7-part online video series that connects 7 areas for therapeutically strengthening your marriage with 7 areas of deepening your relationship with Christ through the Eucharist.

Couples can purchase the program to watch at home and use code USCCB4Marriage for a 20% discount on their products. Contact the MEM office for further resources. You can even subscribe to his Tuesday Marriage Tips sent directly to your email.

United in Love – United in Christ

United will explore God’s plan and promise for spouses. The content will turn to the Church’s rich teaching on love and marriage and draw on personal stories from couples striving to build their lives in Christ. It creatively offers opportunities to reflect, learn, grow, communicate, and experience a deepening in faith. United provides practical steps in building upon what Saint John Paul II taught to be the “Infallible” and “Indispensable” way to a truly united and faithful love!

Contact the MEM office for their resources. Every two weeks their blog is updated. Follow the Faith and Marriage page for their podcasts, videos, shows, and social media.

BELOVED: Finding Happiness in Marriage

Beloved is a video-based enrichment program by the Augustine Institute that explores the true meaning of the Sacrament of Marriage. In six sessions, you’ll discover the deepest spiritual, emotional, and practical realities of what your marriage can and should be. Through an exploration of Scripture, Tradition, and Church teaching, God’s plan for your marriage will come alive. You’ll see firsthand the wonder, mystery, and joy behind that first “I do”—whether you said it last year or many years ago. Beloved sessions are presented on Formed at no cost, everything you need to experience the full power of Beloved for marriage enrichment from the comfort of your home.

Messy Family Project

Alicia and Mike Hernon with the Messy Family Project, have a mission to empower couples, parents, and grandparents to embrace their sacred calling of being a mom or a dad. They want to inspire you with the gorgeous God-given vista of Catholic marriage and family life. But they are not just here to point out the view: we’re here to show you the path, point out the footholds, and equip you for the journey. On their site, you will find videos, podcasts, blogs, worksheets and other downloads that will help you spark ideas and conversations with your spouse so you can be the family you are called to be. You can also follow them on YouTubeInstagram, and Facebook.

Trinity House

Living out your Catholic faith in a joyful and well-run home shouldn’t be such a struggle! So, the Trinity House Community inspires families to make home a taste of heaven for the renewal of faith and culture.

How does a family make home a taste of heaven? For starters, the family is a communion of persons just like the Holy Trinity, so it’s already very close to entering into divine life! Heaven is living with God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit— and with his saints, especially our Blessed Mother Mary. To live with God, the family must follow His one-another-centered way of life, which Our Lord Jesus makes possible. By cultivating a life of communion, of putting one another first, the family home becomes a taste of heaven! Making home a taste of heaven starts with receiving God’s life of communion in the Eucharist at Sunday Mass. The Trinity House Way brings that communion with God that we receive in the sacraments into all the levels of a Trinity House: Faith Life, Person and relationships, Household Economy, Family Culture, and Hospitality and service.

Follow their weekly Heaven in Your Home Letters sent directly to your email each week, Consecrate your Family to the Holy Family, watch the Heaven in Your Home Workshop, and visit their Trinity House Cafe in Leesburg. Follow them on FacebookInstagramTwitter, and YouTube.

Unique for a Reason

Marriage: Unique for a Reason is an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and offers resources to assist with the education and catechesis of Catholics on why marriage is unique and why it should be promoted and protected as the union of one man and one woman. Each of the videos in this initiative, with its companion written material, is intended to be used by a priest, deacon, catechist, or teacher.

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Natural Family Planning

Learn about Natural Family Planning (NFP) methods that are safe, effective, science-based and will help build the bond between a married couple.

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Pregnancy Loss and Infertility

Resources and support for those who are grieving and need healing after a miscarriage.

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