Marriage Preperation Course - Episode III Return of the... Priest
Back into the church again today for another edition of marriage preparation. This week, as you can guess by the title, Fr. Michael was back. Today's subject was communication. Fortunately this is something that Yolanda and I are good at. Fr. Michael was in great form this week and even told a joke! Here it is... Q. What is the punishment for the crime of bigamy? A. Two Mother-in-Laws!Hmmm...got to go! I'll finish this post tomorrow.
OK...I'm back I got busy there for a few days and just remembered I'd not finished this episode. Anyway, yeah, Communication… Fr. M handed out these photocopies of questions in different categories, like finance, religion, socialising…and we had to circle a,b,c, or d to say to what degree we had considered certain things. This exercise was boring as hell! Then we moved on to get more photocopies of hypothetical situations and we had to say what we would do in these situations… “Pat and Brenda were married and Pat had recently turned to beating Brenda after he had a few pints. The priest told Brenda to leave if she wasn’t confident that she could get him into counselling. Did the priest do the right thing? What would you do?”
“John and Mary were married for half a million years and had six hundred kids. John had finally turned to drink. Mary said she was leaving if he didn’t go to counselling. He agreed to go and it fixed all their problems and they lived happily ever after. Would you go to counselling?” Ok so I exaggerated the stories a little but not much I promise you. Note the strong influence of the daemon drink? I really felt it was very patronising this week, and there was so little preparation put into it. I’m getting a bit sick of it now. After this weeks’ scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to talk about I think it’s going to be pretty awful next time. I mean come on, the church has been going for 2000 years, and surely they’ve had time to think about this?
I entered into this course wondering what a guy who has no experience in marriage himself was going to tell us that didn’t already know after living with each quite happily for six years. Now I know…Nothing.
Still, it’s got to be done or there’s no wedding!
OK...I'm back I got busy there for a few days and just remembered I'd not finished this episode. Anyway, yeah, Communication… Fr. M handed out these photocopies of questions in different categories, like finance, religion, socialising…and we had to circle a,b,c, or d to say to what degree we had considered certain things. This exercise was boring as hell! Then we moved on to get more photocopies of hypothetical situations and we had to say what we would do in these situations… “Pat and Brenda were married and Pat had recently turned to beating Brenda after he had a few pints. The priest told Brenda to leave if she wasn’t confident that she could get him into counselling. Did the priest do the right thing? What would you do?”
“John and Mary were married for half a million years and had six hundred kids. John had finally turned to drink. Mary said she was leaving if he didn’t go to counselling. He agreed to go and it fixed all their problems and they lived happily ever after. Would you go to counselling?” Ok so I exaggerated the stories a little but not much I promise you. Note the strong influence of the daemon drink? I really felt it was very patronising this week, and there was so little preparation put into it. I’m getting a bit sick of it now. After this weeks’ scraping the bottom of the barrel for things to talk about I think it’s going to be pretty awful next time. I mean come on, the church has been going for 2000 years, and surely they’ve had time to think about this?
I entered into this course wondering what a guy who has no experience in marriage himself was going to tell us that didn’t already know after living with each quite happily for six years. Now I know…Nothing.
Still, it’s got to be done or there’s no wedding!
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