About the deck
Where these questions came from.
They came out of conversations with parish staff, mentor couples, clergy, and the people who run marriage preparation. The same questions kept surfacing, usually quietly, usually after the formal part of the meeting had ended.
Who they are for
The deck speaks to ministry, not to couples. If you plan the gatherings, teach the sessions, sign the paperwork, or sit with couples in your living room, the questions are written to you.
Couples benefit from what happens after the conversation. That is the order these cards assume.
How a card is built
The question
One question, on the front of the card. Nothing else competing with it.
Our take
A short, direct answer to what the question is really getting at.
Explore further
The longer thinking, for when the question turns out to matter to you.
What a ministry can do
Two or three things small enough to actually happen.
Two discussion questions
One about where you are now. One about where you could go.
The ten themes
30 cards across ten themes, two to four cards each.
- After the Wedding
- IRL & Community
- Knowing Your Couples
- Husbands & Wives
- NFP in Married Life
- Participation
- Ministry Capacity
- Strong Marriages
- Parish Connection
- Bigger Questions
Printed deck, permanent home
The physical cards carry a code that brings you to that card's page here, where the full take, the actions, and the related cards live. Nothing is held back for the printed version and nothing is held back behind an email form.
Marriage Every Day™ is an affiliated ministry of The Marriage Group® and works alongside Advanced Ministries to serve couples across Christian traditions, Catholic couples among them.
For ministry leaders
Wondering how this connects to what you already do?
Marriage Every Day works alongside parishes and ministries rather than replacing what they have built. If the questions in this deck are the ones you keep running into, we would like to hear about your situation.