How about Advanced Preparation for Marriage?

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LOL! Whoever puts a clause like that in their will is CLEARLY not Catholic!!!
 
CilladeRoma said:
Pretty sure there is no “marriage class” anymore in Catholic high school.

I had trouble at my parish last year just teaching the Catholic teaching of marriage and sexual morality to high school Confirmation candidates because the parents were in an uproar over the topic.

Far too many people don’t understand what the Church actually teaches and sadly many just don’t care.
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That’s very sad to hear. We discuss and teach the same topics for our high school confirmation candidates too (it’s a two-year confirmation program) but we never have gotten any protests from the parents about it. Many of the parents are in fact very grateful that we actually cover those topics in depth. It’s make their job of parenting teens a whole lot easier.
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
Some are and some aren’t. I personally wasn’t interested in getting married at age 18. My 19-year-old boyfriend, on the other hand, was in a huge rush to get married and in fact did get married (to someone else) by the time he was 21, and by the time he was 30 had three kids.
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A friend of mine when I was a young man died in a terrible accident at age 19, and he was engaged to be married in 8 weeks. The young lady he was engaged to was 18, met someone else at the funeral, and got married on time.
 
As a parent, we talked about Catholic marriage often. The first marriage class for children is the marriage of their parents, their extended family, the friends around the family. You talk about it, you live it, and no Catholic should grow up and say “I never knew the Church taught X about marriage” because their parents, godparents, etc have taught them well.
 
In an ideal world, yeah. In today’s world, not so much.
In today’s world, Catholic students argue with their teachers about SSM.
 
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I’ve been saying for years that if the prospective bride and groom have the time to pick out the perfect dress, tuxedo, caterer, DJ, etc then they should be able to find at least one hour per week to receive sound Catholic instruction on marriage and the family.

I feel like Cassandra in the Iliad…
 
Their parents, teachers, youth ministers, these are the places where such a debate needs to take place. “Because I said so” is good for the 7 year old, but, questioning beliefs is part of maturing.

I hope that the teachers, parents, godparents, youth ministers have done the research themselves and are able to listen to the arguments and seek the truth together with the teens.

Again, if all of the Catholic adults have talked about marriage since that child was able to understand spoken language, it prepares the child for these mature questions.

When kids have been taught all of their lives the prevalent idea that marriage is simply a public expression of commitment in a romantic relationship, is it any wonder that they believe that same sex marriage is a beautiful thing?
 
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