ST. JUDE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY    PAGE NINE   JANUARY 30, 2000

In celebration of "World Marriage Day", the local Marriage Encounter community will host a "Marriage in the New Millennium" seminar for all Married Couples on Saturday, February 12^th, at St. John Vianney Catholic Community in Hacienda Heights from 12:00 noon till 4:00 p.m.

If you are looking to enrich your marriage, to find ways to communicate better, to revitalize the romance, or to just plain cope, this is the place to be and the seminar for you.

Refreshments will be served and baby-sitting will be available at no cost.

Advanced registration is recommended.   Please call Bill and Phyllis Luehrmann at 818 - 830 - 2766.

His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, has asked us to celebrate World Marriage Day on Sunday, February 13^th.     On this day our world, our community, our parish, are all asked to stand-up for marriage.    Our world and our media have given-up any belief in the sanctity of marriage.     "Love them and leave them!"     "Sex for pleasure without any commitment or responsibility!"    "Children are not needed!"    "Don't let children or family get in the way of advancing your career or cramping your ability to get ahead!"     All these ideas seem to be some of the current trends of our world and media that are so openly proposed and acted upon, as if God does not exist!

World Marriage Day will give our parish community an occasion to stand-up for the sanctity of marriage.    It will also give us an opportunity to honor all husbands and wives, to uphold the sacredness of Matrimony, and to provide an occasion for all couples present at each Mass to renew their marriage vows in the presence of the entire Gathered Assembly.

Someone once said "Marriages may be made in heaven, but they sure take a lot of work on earth!"    Without attention and care, marriages wither.   Couples slowly and quietly drift apart or are being torn apart by terrible words and actions.     Many are married in name only, or just stay together "for the sake of the kids."    If this sounds like your marriage, RETROUVAILLE can help.    The program is designed to provide the communication tools needed to put suffering, troubled marriages back with scheduled follow-up talks.   

For confidential information or to register, please call 800 - 470 - 2230 as soon as possible to begin the registration process.

DEANERY  FOUR (4)  NEWS

Natural Family Planning (NFP) Classes will start on Tuesday, February 8^th, at 7:00 p.m. at St. Mary Magdalen Chapel, 2532 E. Ventura Blvd. in Camarillo in Room # 8.

For more information please call Mary Ann or Leslie at 805 - 650 - 4878.     Pre-Registration is required.

The next Theology Update Series at St. John's Seminary is on Wednesday, February 9th.    Rev. Richard Albarano, will present insights into Liturgy.
     
While these classes are open to all who wish to attend, it should be remembered that these classes are taken by seminarians, thus a certain intermediate level of expertise is needed to attend these sessions.    These sessions are specially intended for all involved in ministry, and for all who wish to know and appreciate better their Catholic Faith.

Each series is a self-contained unit.    Sessions are presented in an interactive format that will include lecture, dialogue, and time for questions.

All parishes are asked to celebrate World Marriage Day and honor all married couples on this day.    Here at St. Jude's, we will salute all couples married in the Church that day, and we will ask them all to renew their wedding vows.     Please try to attend Mass on that Sunday as a family.