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Engaged Encounter Part II: Three to Get Married?

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The first Catholic Engaged Encounter (CEE) weekend was given in Detroit in 1974 with the aide of the Marriage Encounter Resource Community. In 1975 CEE became a self-sustaining National Ministry. CEE has had astonishing growth throughout our country and also throughout the world. CEE is now taking place in more than 30 countries around the world. It has become the rpeferred Marriage Preparation Program for the Catholic Church, and today many other Christian denominations also offer Engaged Encounter programs. Engaged Encounter teams are all volunteers.

Earlier this month, my fiance and I attended a Catholic Engaged Encounter weekend. I've already written about the site and the Masses. This part is about the content.

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Requiescat In Pace

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Charles Sceiford
September 7, 1916 – September 23, 2004

Saints of God, come to his aid!
Come to meet him, angels of the Lord!

May Christ, who called you, take you to himself;
may angels lead you to Abraham’s
side.

Give him eternal rest, O Lord,
and may Your light shine
on him for ever.

Receive his soul and present him to God the Most High.

All-powerful and merciful God,
we commend to You, Charles, Your servant.
In Your mercy and love,
blot out all the sins he has committed through human
weakness.
In this world he has died: let him live with You for ever.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord.
And let perpetual light shine upon him.

May he rest in peace.

May his soul and the souls of all the faithful
departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

We ask this
through Christ our Lord.

AMEN

Naderless November

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I’ve long known that I would not being giving my vote to a Democrat or a Republican. I’m too fed up with the two party system, and the candidates haven’t done or said anything to change my mind. I had planned on voting for Ralph Nader, since he seemed to be the strongest third party candidate. Well, this Electoral Vote Predictor article informed me that Nader failed to get onto the ballot in PA. Bummer. I guess it’ll be Mike Peroutka, then.

Prayer Requests

My extended family is in need of intense prayer for private intentions. Suffice
to say that no life is physically in danger, but bad decisions have led to unpleasant
consequences.

A friend of the family also needs prayers. He used to go to the church I grew up
going to. He was my Lutheran conformation sponsor. He has prostate cancer and will
soon be receiving radiation treatments five days a week for the next five weeks.

Prayer Request

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Frequent readers are familiar with Jerry Nora. Well, he and his new bride need some
prayers. Before I tell you why, here’s some background information to this story.

A little over a year ago, Jerry bought a house in a decent neighborhood surrounded
by not-so-decent neighborhoods. He put a lot of blood sweat and tears into that
house. He, with the help of slave labor his friends, he replaced the shingles
on his very steep roof. He brought plumbers in to fix two very nasty sewage problems.
As one of the people who cleaned up the back-flow, I can assure it was not a fun
experience. To fix the problem, much of the basement floor had to be ripped up and
dig into. It was not cheap and not fun for those who dwelt in the house (trust me).
The second repair job required turning the front yard into the Grand Canyon. That,
too, was expensive and stressful. Later, he and Krystia washed over a decade of
tobacco tar from, added coats of primer to, and painted the walls of several rooms
in the house. When I visited about a month after I moved out, I hardly recognized
the place. They had a nice house, lived in what they thought to be a safe neighborhood,
and were newlyweds. Life was good.

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