Ding, Dong, the witch is dead....

We have completed our 4 weeks of marital training and are hereby officially qualified to take on the world! Ok, that's a little flip. But we have completed 10 hours of coverage of what a Catholic marriage means. Come to think of it, on the evaluation, I should have added that a little thought should be given to covering "mixed" marriages like ours in which the Catholic teachings on marriage may not 100% fit with our lives. For example, they really pushed going to mass together. That would be lovely, it's not like I'm against the idea, but it doesn't fit a marriage where one partner is no way going to mass. Anyways, I thought the communication session had the most ecumenical appeal, and liked the actual session on NFP. But a lot of it was long stretches of listening to talks. I was laughing when I talked to Chris last night afterwards, because I realized that after the very first talk, there were no questions asked for the balance of the sessions. Everyone was afraid that we'd be there even longer. Sigh. It was funny, last week a different couple sat down at our table, and we started talking. Turns out the guy, Jeff, used to race bikes, and they were really nice. When they ended the session last night, we went into the Church, there was a blessing, they gave us our certificates of completion, and we left. So they called us up one by one and then we walked out the door. It was a bit of a bummer, as Chris and I were talking about we actually wouldn't have minded going to do something afterwards with this couple. But they were long gone before we got our certificates. Far be it for us to have arranged something prior to the very last possible moment. Oh well. The other thing that was interesting was being in a room full of engaged couples. Just not a situation that we've ever been in before, or will be in again.

So with a mixture of (mostly) exasperation and (a little)regret, we bid a fond adieu to Catholic premarital classes. On to the next adventure!
- posted by cam @ 8:31 AM