Meetings show couples how to pray together

Published: 2004-06-07

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (CNS) -- Jim Fisher was frustrated. A long drive home from work in the pouring rain had only done more to frazzle his nerves on a Friday evening in September 2002. But as he walked in the door, his wife, Mary, reminded him that it was the night the couple would attend a prayer meeting at St. Lucy Church in St. Clair Shores -- on the other side of town. "So we get back in the car," Mary Fisher recalled. "It's raining. It's awful. We're not sure where we're going. And he's in a bad mood because I'm making him go." Jim Fisher -- who soured at the thought of church functions -- protested. His wife won. But neither knew that the evening would change their lives. That night, the Fishers, for the first time in their eight-year marriage, would begin to learn to pray together. The Fishers are one of more than 100 couples touched by the Archdiocese of Detroit's Couple Prayer Series -- a program conducted by Deacon Bob Ovies, director of the archdiocesan family life office. Since it began in 2000, the six-week series has been conducted across the archdiocese and demand for it has grown.

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