Water Made Wine – book of marriage preparation

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How can we welcome couples marrying in our local Christian church? How can we offer them marriage preparation which is relevent| realistic and readily recieved? Water Made Wine encourages volunteers to form themselves into a parish marriage team. It recognises that they need skills for themselves and a programme to offer engaged couples| and it outlines training which will give them both. Extensively tested by counsellors| this training has enpowered ordinary parish volunteers to start meeting all types of couples before they marry. Water Made Wine is enlivened by the voices of these parish volunteers| whose reactions in training are extensively quoted and whose ministry to those about to marry is a positive and hopeful response by the Christian churches to the fragility of marriage today. Margaret Grimer is External Services Officer with the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council| where she has a special interest in furthering the scheme for training parish marriage teams to work with couples getting married. She has contributed to Religious Education and Young Adults (ed. Donal O’Leary; St Paul Publications 1983) and is co-author of Life Choices (Geoffrey Chapman 1985).