A New Year’s Thought 2021

This is taken from “What the Wind Knows” by Amy Harmon

“I can’t imagine all men love their women the way I love (mine). If they did, the streets would be empty, and the fields would grow fallow. Industry would rumble to a halt and markets would tumble as men bowed at the feet of their wives, unable to need or notice anything but her. If all men loved their wives the way I love mine, we would be a useless lot. Or maybe the world would know peace. Maybe the wars would end, and the strife would cease as we centered our lives on loving and being loved.”

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Virtual Marriage Prep

During the Coronavirus Pandemic, our normal methods of delivering experiential programs (retreats, skills courses, and marriage preparation) have been replaced with online meetings. See this article from the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas about the experience of two engaged couples.
Marriage Prep Delivered Online

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Action Plan: Christmas and Advent

The holidays can be super stressful, but that doesn’t mean you can’t stay in love. Complete this worksheet as a date night, or take a little piece at a time.

http://livinginlove.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Advent-action-plan.pdf

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Archbishop Naumann – Episcopal Moderator

 

 

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas has embraced the Living in Love Programs and agreed to be the Episcopal Moderator for the Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Center. We are incredibly grateful to Archbishop Naumann for his belief in the work we are doing and willingness to provide his wisdom and insight to help guide us in our best efforts to serve the Church.

Archbishop Naumann is very familiar with the Living in Love Program Suite from its widespread implementation in his own Diocese. He has called it “One of the greatest phenomena he has ever witnessed.”

This formalizes a much needed relationship between the PMRC and the official Church. We look forward to working together to be a force for good as the Church continues to proclaim the good news of the integration of sexuality and spirituality.

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Living in Love Impact Award 2015

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During the 26 September Living in Love Leader’s Gathering held outside Philadelphia, Ron and Kathy Feher presented the Living in Love Impact Award for 2015 to Dick and Stephanie Giba of Ann Arbor, MI. The wording of the award is as follows:

“For relentless courage, noble ambition, and tireless generosity empowering couples to live in love as authentic witnesses to the Theology of the Body”

Dick and Stephanie began the entire Living in Love program suite in Michigan on faith. They recruited the first Living in Love weekend West of the Allegheny Mountains single handedly without having experienced one themselves and immediately ran the Living in Love Every Day follow up course. The next year, they recruited 55 more couples for the second weekend and have given multiple weekends a year for the past 8 years in and around their parish. They have trained hundreds of mentors and presented more Living in Love retreats than any couple other than the Fehers.

Not content to stay at Chris the King in Ann Arbor, they spread Living in Love to neighboring parishes, the neighboring diocese of Detroit, and all the way up into the thumb and the Diocese of Saginaw. When appointed to the Diocesan Marriage Task Force, their presentation of the Living in Love suite won approval and gained access to parishes in the Lansing area. Dick and Stephanie have even reached across significant cultural barriers to the Chaldean Catholic Community and young Iraqi immigrants.

In spite multiple advanced degrees, Dick and Stephanie are disarmingly humble. They are irresistibly sincere, powerfully faith-filled, wise and generous. They epitomize the call of couples to be Sacrament in the Church. We praise and thank God for them today.

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May 2015 Newsletter

The May 2015 newsletter can be accessed by clicking the image below:

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The Shepherd’s Voice – Living in Love Interview

In August 2013, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas sat down with Ron and Kathy Feher, authors of the Living in Love Retreat Workshop for married couples and Directors of the Pastoral and Matrimonial Renewal Center, to talk about their work with Living in Love. Here is their taped conversation as broadcast on the Archbishop’s weekly radio show, The Shepherd’s Voice. Select the link below to listen.

Please share this link with everyone: http://archkck.libsyn.com/living-in-love

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Father Chuck Family Eulogy

Here is the Eulogy for Father Chuck delivered at his funeral by his neice, Meghan Sweeney
Eulogy for Rev Charles A Gallagher – Meghan Sweeney

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Father Chuck Funeral Homily

Here is the Homily delivered at Father Chuck’s Funeral Mass by Fr Robert “Rosy” Rosebrough.

EULOGY for Fr Chuck – Fr Rosebrough

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Father Chuck Memorial

Here is the handout that was available at Father Chuck’s viewing and funeral. It captures a small testament of his work and biographical data. For more information contact the PMRC at pmrcusa@msn.com or call 610-640-4105

Bio Pamphlet

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