After seven years of working with engaged couples in their diocese, Mary-Rose and Ryan Verret felt called to develop a new model of Catholic marriage preparation.<\/p>\n
The result was \u201cWitness to Love,\u201d a formation program in which engaged couples choose married mentors from their parish to journey with them into faith and marriage. <\/p>\n
RYAN AND MARY-ROSE VERRET<\/strong> 10 years after founding \u201cWitness to Love,\u201d the Verrets say they are still moved by the stories they hear from couples going through the program and their mentors. <\/p>\n RYAN AND MARY-ROSE VERRET<\/strong> Parents to five children, the Verrets know firsthand the challenges of raising a family, and the value of cultivating relationships with other families to overcome them\u2014a key component of their marriage prep philosophy.<\/p>\n RYAN AND MARY-ROSE VERRET<\/strong> By putting relationships at the center of marriage preparation, the Verrets are transforming how Catholics prepare to take one of the most important steps in their lives. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 22, 2021. \u201cWitness to Love\u201d is putting personal relationships between couples at the center of Catholic marriage preparation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/M3QXhvNALi8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bftwitnesstoloveeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bftwitnesstoloveint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFounders, Witness to Love
\n\u201cThese engaged couples and the mentors they chose, they're hanging around after Mass, they're going to parish picnics, they're volunteering in the social needs of the parish. It's just really great to see that there's a relationship, and that really it's all being drawn from the Eucharist and then also being sent out from that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFounders, Witness to Love
\n\u201cStories of people who say 'I grew up with a single mom and I had no father figure, and then I chose this mentor couple at the Church where we're getting married, and that couple said to us \u201cwe are your family now, you're the son we never had. We're seeing that over and over again with couples. They need more, they need real people, real relationships, real accompaniment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFounders, Witness to Love
\n\u201cAnd so the more that newlywed couples are in relationship with other couples who are struggling but working through it, they're not going to feel that they're the only ones dealing with obstacles.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n