If you missed the last marriage workshop, the next one begins on June 4th! Make sure you register HERE for this FREE Marriage Workshop.
While running a family business and raising 8 children, it seems like life is always “too busy” for something like a marriage retreat.
Now that we’re down to the “last few kids” at home, we thought things would start to slow down.
Wrong.
With grandbabies in the mix and now needing to travel to see adult children (who have their own busy schedules of their own—some of our kids’ lives make me tired just wondering how we ever had the energy when we were younger….), life is still as busy as ever.
Okay, so a traditional weekend-long marriage retreat is probably not happening for us during this stage of life.
Then a friend put us in touch with another friend, Sarah Bartel, a month or so ago (sometime before Advent!). She understood that prep for and management of Advent Adventure is a particularly busy time for us, so she reached out again a few weeks ago and invited us to join The Little Way of Marriage: Catholic Marriage Workshop.
This Catholic Marriage Workshop is a FREE online program for Catholic Married couples. This 4 part program runs now through January 20th (yup, it has already begun and we are JUST now starting so don’t worry about starting late).
Through 4 videos (also available in an audio format for listening while getting tasks done or driving) released throughout the month of January, Nathan and Sarah Bartel share how you can grow as a couple through prayer, acts of service, and commitment growing together as a married couple.
Each video is accompanied by a PDF download to help you dive deeper as well as access to a discussion board if you’d like to see tips or suggestions from other Catholic couples.
In the first video, the Bartels share a formula that couples can use to pray together (something that less than 10% of Christian couples report doing). The Bartels are vulnerable about their experience at about 10 years of marriage when they faced some tough life circumstances and needed a reset in their marriage. They were taught a way of praying together that they are now hoping to share with as many other Catholic couples as possible.
Wives: Sarah specifically shares what it was like to worry that her husband would not be up for learning how to pray together as a couple. She offers specific encouragement for the wives who feel like their husbands will not be interested.
Husbands: Nathan specifically shares what it was like to feel apprehensive about trying a new style of prayer that made him uncomfortable and might risk not meeting Sarah’s expectations.
The Bartels will share how to use this type of prayer (the single most profound thing they have done for their marriage) through this first video while is accompanied by a PDF printable to help you do this in your marriage.
The Bartels also share the most common thing they pray for—it is laughter in the home!
What a beautiful thing to pray for and not something that neither Kerri or I can ever recall praying for in our own home! We have been inspired to add that to our regular prayer intentions.
Might I add that since this Marriage Workshop is inspired by St. Therese, you can download our St. Therese coloring pages so your kids have something to do while you and your spouse watch this video together? You can also download the MP3 Glory Story of St. Therese to keep your kids entertained.
So, join us in this Marriage Workshop and complete the four videos to help strengthen and grow in your marriage alongside your spouse.
We may even suggest this marriage workshop to some of our busy married children!
PS If you decide to partake in this FREE workshop, could you please take a moment right now to just comment below “We’ll try it” or something like that? Thanks (and it’s still Merry Christmas)!
If you are looking for additional resources for your marriage, check out additional resources here!
Ken Davison created Glory Stories, which became a weekly radio series heard globally on the Ave Maria Satellite Radio Network and EWTN’s radio network, WEWN. In 2007, he and his wife, Kerri, founded Holy Heroes–and their children stepped in to help shortly thereafter to create the online “Adventures” for Advent, Lent, Spiritual Adoption, and Marian Consecration.
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Thank you for this resource! Looking forward to trying this!
Much appreciation for this notification. Will ask my hubby and also share with other busy married couples!
Thanks for sharing! I’d love to try this 🙂
Just watched the 1st video of the Little Way Marriage retreat 🙂 Excited for #2!
Will try it!
We’ll give it a try!
I will pass along to share with my daughter. Hopefully she and her husband will take advantage. Thank you! & Happy New Year. E
Going to try
Hoping my husband will try it with me!
Will try it
We watched Session 1 and loved it! Thank you for the recommendation as we would not have known about it otherwise.
Sounds like something I’d like to try!
We’ll try it.
Sounds great! Can’t wait to try it!
My husband isn’t as into practicing his faith as I am, but I will encourage him to do it with me and if he chooses not to, I will still try on my own.
Going to try it! Please pray for grace and openness in hearts! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I am going to try it. This year is our 18th wedding anniversary but we have come to a some very turbulent past 8 years. We have 3 children 15,13 and 11. Not sure if my husband will join in. He is Protestant by faith but not practicing. He is a bit ‘over’ this whole Catholic thing.
Thanks for sharing, we are going to try!
This is an answer to a prayer intention of mine!
Would love to try it if they offer it again later in the year- husband is gone for a month so doing it now would be a bit tricky 🙂
We will try to do the retreat! Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
Thanks for sending. It’s a refreshing idea to try in the new year.
We are going to try!
I will try it too!
Thanks for the recommendation! We’re going to do this, hopefully starting tonight.