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Strengthening Marriages Through Faith & Commitment

Witness to Love provides a transformative journey for couples, guiding them through faith-based marriage preparation and ongoing support.

Couples

Through comprehensive resources and ongoing support, Witness to Love equips couples with the tools to navigate challenges and strengthen their bond for a lifetime of love in Christ.

Church Leaders

Witness to Love provides church leaders with comprehensive training and resources to cultivate thriving marriages within their communities, fostering a culture of love, faith, and commitment.

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What is Witness to Love?

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.

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What We Offer

See how Witness to Love is responding to the different needs of couples through our other initiatives and offerings!

Media Center

The Witness to Love Media Center features a diverse range of resources including articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos.

Events

WTL hosts a variety of events ranging from certification trainings for marriage formation leaders to Date Nights for couples!

Witness to Love

A Marriage Catechumenate since 2012

Inspired by the baptismal catechumenate, the marriage catechumenate seeks to offer formation and accompaniment to couples that leads to an encounter with Christ. This journey begins long before the celebration of the sacrament and continues as couples grow in their vocation. 

 

Doing Our Part

 

Our mission is to build and sustain communities of evangelizing spouses to be light in our world. We believe in building communities and not just creating content. We have taken what we've learned to promote the marriage catechumenate in our parishes, in our continent, and abroad!

Evangelization

In Our Parishes

Our Marriage Prep & Enrichment

Witness to Love is unique in that it allows couples seeking the sacrament of Marriage to choose mentors they admire to journey with them as they go through our virtues-based model and beyond. Since 2012, we've helped 500 parishes adopt the Witness to Love marriage catechumenate!

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In North America

Marriage Catechumenate Summit

Witness to Love gathered with clergy, lay leaders, and marriage champions from the U.S and Canada in 2023 and 2024 to discuss the Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life and how the marriage catechumenate could be applied in North America!

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Abroad

Vatican Presentations & Appointment

The Verrets were invited to speak at the 2021 International Forum: Where do we stand with Amoris Laetitia?, The 2022 World Meeting of Families, and were appointed as Consultants to the Vatican Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life by His Holiness Pope Francis in 2023.

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The Marriage Catechumenate Summit

 

The Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life (CPML) released in 2022 is a "pastoral tool" prepared by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life to offer practical applications for the marriage catechumanate model first proposed in Familiaris Consortio in 1981 and which has been the compass for Witness to Love since it's birth in 2012.

In 2023 and 2024, we gathered with leaders from across the continent at the Marriage Catechumenate Summit to discuss the CPML in the North American context. We're happy to share some of the key takeaways from leaders who joined the conversation in 2023!

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Julia Dezelski, Assoc. Director

Marriage and Family Life, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

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Sharon Goh, Director

Marriage & Family Office of the Archdiocese of Vancouver

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Fr. Paul Hartman, Assoc. Secretary General 

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

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The Road to Family Missionary Discipleship

Following the Synod on the Family and Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Catholics have looked to put in action the Church’s beautiful vision for marriage and family evangelization. Combining Church teaching, personal testimonies, and the Witness to Love marriage ministry experience and insight, The Road to Family Missionary Discipleship gives churches, ministries, and disciples of Jesus Christ a practical guide to form holy marriages, and accompany families for their mission to share the “joy of the Gospel.”

 

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Forever Love: A Mini-Documentary about the Marriage Catechumenate Summit

MAX Studios attended the Marriage Catechumenate Summit that took place at Circle Lake Retreat Center near Houston, Texas in June 2023. This is a mini-documentary about the summit and key takeaways for use by newlyweds, married couples and those preparing couples for marriage in the Catholic Church in North America.

 

Articles on the Marriage Catechumenate

NCR 2015

Witness to Love: Answer to a Synod’s Prayer for Marriage Formation?

By National Catholic Register, November 4, 2015

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NCR 2017

Is Marriage Catechumenate the Church’s Missing ‘Antidote’ for the Marriage Crisis?

By National Catholic Register, February, 14, 2017

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NCR 2022

Vatican’s New Document Welcomes ‘Marriage Catechumenate’

By National Catholic Register, July 26, 2022

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OSV Jan 2023 (1)

Personal accompaniment key to Vatican’s expanded vision for marriage formation

By OSV News, January 17, 2023

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As Marriage Rates Continue to Plunge, How Can the Church Get More People to the Altar?

By National Catholic Register, July 11, 2024

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Marriage formation leaders explore catechumenal models for marriage formation backed by Vatican

By OSV News, July 10, 2024

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