Marriage Encounter modifies weekend format to accommodate couples

Published: 2005-09-02

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (CNS) -- Worldwide Marriage Encounter, which offers weekend programs to help couples revitalize their marriages, is now also offering its program in weekday sessions to accommodate couples who find it difficult to get away for a weekend. The modified sessions, called Worldwide Marriage Encounter Experience, provide the couples an opportunity to benefit from about 13 talks by married couples and clergy in a nonresidential setting. Oblate Father Joseph DiMauro, a Marriage Encounter presenter and coordinator of teacher certification and education in the social sciences department at DeSales University in Center Valley, said the Worldwide Marriage Encounter national office permitted the program to be divided over the course of three or four days after a growing number of couples found it difficult to leave jobs, children and other tasks behind for a full weekend normally conducted at local hotels or retreat centers.

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