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What is Marriage Retorno?

Marriage Retorno means turning toward God as a couple. The goal of Marriage Retorno is to provide an atmosphere, a context, in which the couple can open themselves both as individuals and as a couple to a dialogue with God through Scripture. It is a weekend prayer experience for husband and wife, facilitated by a married couple and a Catholic priest. It provides participating couples with an opportunity for a renewal of their relationship as a couple with God.

Who is it for?

Marriage Retorno is an experience intended for every married couple who wishes to deepen a sense of communion with one another and the Lord. Marriage Retorno assumes that the husband and wife desire a deeper communion with one another and are hungry to deepen their relationship with the Lord as a couple.

Marriage Retorno also serves to renew the prayer life of priests and religious.

What Marriage Retorno is not:

The weekend is not a "prayer group" experience, a Scripture study course or marriage encounter type weekend experience. Marriage Retorno does not encourage any particular apostolic endeavor nor is there any structured follow-up. Rather, it is a deepening of a couple's prayer and spirituality, designed specifically for a married couple.

What happens on a Marriage Retorno?

The weekend consists of four basic moments: a period of reconciliation as husband and wife; then three phases in which God is encountered through Scripture as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Reconciliation:

This is a period of writing and sharing between husband and wife about their marriage, the level of trust and openness in their relationship, and the barriers to deeper union with each other.

Three Phases of Listening

Through Scriptures and

Opening the Heart to God's Word:

Each phase offers the couple time for individual reflection, writing and sharing while listening as God speaks through Scripture. There is time for:

* prayer alone,

* prayer as a couple,

* and group sharing.

The phases deal with finding the will of the Father, following the example of the Son, and becoming witnesses of God's love and unity through the Holy Spirit.