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Marriage and Family Life How did we manage to live through the pandemic, meet 400 plus couples online for Marriage preparation and remain cheerful? Facing the reality of not meeting in venues for our Marriage Preparation courses throughout the Diocese, we contacted the diocesan IT team in March 2020 and asked them what the possibilities were to deliver Marriage Preparation and Building a Better Marriage (BABM) marriage enrichment courses online. The patient and inspirational Aaron Dennis set up MS Teams for us so that we could at least have our initial team meeting. Despite all couples intending to get married in the Catholic Church having to attend a Marriage Preparation course, the opportunity is so much more to us as a team. This faith encounter is crucial to form the expectations of what the future could hold for these individual domestic churches. The very experience of meeting other couples who are going through the same process gives encouragement – nourishing all who come at wherever they may be in their journey of faith to those who have little or no faith at all. Overcoming our own hesitancy to ‘perform’ online – and we fully acknowledge the grace of the Holy Spirit – the MFL teams in each of the 3 Pastoral Areas re-worked the kernel of our message for marriage and then ran our Marriage Preparation (which included married couples as well as priest / deacon copresenters and newly recruited lay presenters) and BABM courses online. We missed not meeting the couples face to face but we have realised by experiencing the online course that we can develop our future courses by running hybrid courses which will save both the team and couples costs. In our team meetings we discussed strategies for post Marriage Preparation course evangelisation and were encouraged to attend the online courses we would publicise to the couples. Of note in particular was the online Lenten 2020 retreat at Walsingham led by Mgr John Armitage, the online SycamOre videos made by Fr Stephen Wang, the online Alpha course led by Stephen Walsh and the team at Holy Innocents, Orpington. We attended the online SycamOre course run by Deacon Neil Philipson and the team at St Thomas of Canterbury, Sevenoaks. Viewing Bishop Barron’s various talks, resources from our own diocesan Agency for Evangelisation including talks from Archbishop John Wilson and reading Sherry Weddell’s ‘Forming Intentional Disciples’ and ‘Walking with God’ – A journey through the Bible by Gray and Cavins which accompanied the online course presented by Mauro Iannicelli, all inspired us to envisage an ongoing evangelisation experience for couples. These resources fuelled our spiritual lives so that in the short encounter with those hoping to get married in the Catholic Church we were able to rejoice and celebrate that the Lord has worked marvels and holy is his name. Unlike Marriage Preparation we could not easily continue the care of the bereaved during lock down other than give support where needed to those working in the parishes. At least one group used an online outreach whilst others continued via the telephone to support those bereaved within the parishes. At diocesan level we had the Archbishop’s permission to extend the Bereavement Ministry and are currently expanding the training team to reach out further into the Diocese. This is being accomplished by an online course plus a faceto-face meeting as we ease out of lockdown. The ministry will be led by our new dynamic couple Deacon Javier and Susan Elderfield. We look forward, with confidence, to developing our ministries further in 2021. 14
IMPACT REPORT “ A family that discovers and experiences both the joy of having a gift and of being a gift of the church and society can become a light in the darkness of the world”. Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia AL.66 Fr Graham Preston, Episcopal Vicar for Marriage and Family Life (2020) 15
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