CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ENGAGEMENT!
It is our privilege to help you prepare for your life together in this wonderful sacrament, and we are prepared to do just that. The focus of marriage preparation is not centered primarily on planning the wedding. Its focus is on preparing to live out a lifelong union of love with the Lord.
Whether you are planning a wedding at Prince of Peace, or planning a wedding elsewhere, we are happy to work with you to complete your Marriage Preparation requirements. The Diocese of Dallas has a minimum preparation time of at least six months prior to your planned wedding date but planning a year or more out is also common.
Your first step is to fill out the wedding inquiry form! We’ll get in touch with you and provide you with a little more info and go over any questions that you have. After that we’ll schedule an in-person meeting to officially start preparation!
Michael Muldowney
Associate Director of Evangelization
mmuldowney@popplano.org
PREPARATION RESOURCES
The Prepare and Enrich Marriage Inventory is designed to equip marriage champions, couples, and families with evidence-based skills and insights to foster healthy relationships.
Witness to Love is a virtues-based, Catechumenate model of marriage renewal and preparation that integrates modern principles of psychology and the virtues to help couples facilitate an authentic dialogue about their relationship.
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING
Natural Family Planning (NFP) is the general title for the scientific, natural and moral methods of family planning that can help married couples either achieve or postpone pregnancies.
We have a few contacts for you to consider using for your NFP preparation. NFP methods are based on the observation of the naturally occurring signs and symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of a woman's menstrual cycle. No drugs, devices, or surgical procedures are used to avoid pregnancy.
Since the methods of NFP respect the love-giving (unitive) and life-giving (procreative) nature of the conjugal act, they support God's design for married love!
