In the Diocese of Owensboro, we don’t want to just prepare you for your wedding day. We want to prepare you for a life-long marriage that continues to grow, mature, and get better as the years go by. We believe marriage should be fun and enjoyable as much as it is challenging.
We don’t just want to give you packets of information and hoops to jump through for marriage preparation. We want to lay out a clear vision of God’s plan for your marriage and teach you skills to keep a good marriage healthy. Our goal in the Office of Marriage & Family Life is not only to help you have a great start to your marriage, but even more importantly to offer resources and support for the rest of your married lives together.
What we’re offering in our marriage ministry is a balance of vision, skills, and support that starts in marriage prep and continues into enrichment through things like Grace Marriage, retreats for married couples, and other support ministries for when issues arise. This begins with marriage preparation, which is why you’re here.
Congratulations on your engagement!
After you have met with your priest and done the premarital inventory, you have two options for marriage preparation: PreCana, or meeting with sponsor couples in your parish.
PreCana
PreCana is a hybrid program in the Diocese of Owensboro. The online portion is self-paced, interactive, and can be done at your convenience. The cost is $170. Register by clicking the gray button below. (See additional instructions below)
The In-person portion will be a half-day, in-person retreat on a Saturday which is scheduled four times a year. To check available dates and register, click the blue button below.
Registration Instructions for Unveiled Online Course
To register for Unveiled: PreCana Diocese of Owensboro, follow the register now button seen above.
Click “add to cart” on the Unveiled: Precana Diocese of Owensboro course.
Click on the shopping cart icon and then click “checkout”.
Fill in your information to place your order for the course.
Once your registration has been completed, you’ll get a confirmation email from admin@mycatholictech.
You’ll then be able to click “dashboard” and your course should be ready to use.
Look for the Unveiled: PreCana Diocese of Owensboro icon in your dashboard to begin your course.
Sponsor Couple Program
The Sponsor Couple Program is a great option for couples who prefer meeting face-to-face with a couple in their parish in a relaxed, informal setting. Each session covers topics related to marriage in the context of the Catholic Faith.
Sponsor couples are selected by the parish and trained by the Office of Marriage & Family Life to serve as a model of Christian marriage to the engaged couple of love in action. Choosing this option has the added benefit of connecting the newly married couple with another couple in the parish who can help them feel welcomed by the parish community.
Contact your parish priest to see if your parish offers sponsor couples.
Remarriage
ReMarriage is a marriage preparation program for couples preparing for marriage after one or both persons have experienced a declaration of invalidity or death of a former spouse. ReMarriage couples will be using the same Unveiled Online Course as the PreCana couples use, except we add a few topics that are related to second marriages. The cost of the online course is $170. At this time remarriage couples only need to participate in the online course
Call or Email Danny to get started on the process.
270-683-1545 or danny.may@pastoral.org