Dear Bridal Couple:

Congratulations on your engagement!  Our Holy Trinity Parish family rejoices with you as you prepare for this life-long covenant of love.  This time now before your wedding day provides an opportunity to Prepare for Married Life.  It also provides an opportunity to reflect on your sacramental marriage as a beautiful living witness of God’s love for us. These months will be filled with the many details of planning a prayer-filled wedding celebration. The Marriage Preparation process here in our faith community is designed to assist you in both of these dimensions.

At the initial visit, various components of the Marriage Preparation journey will be  discussed. These include reviewing the FOCCUS communication tool, participating in our parish marriage preparation program, as well as completing the pre-nuptial papers needed by the church before your wedding celebration. Thank you for taking the responsibility to initiate the scheduling of various visits with those who are assisting in this process and for making participation in Marriage Preparation an important priority in your busy lives.

Our Marriage Preparation Booklet is designed to assist you in planning for your wedding celebration. Please read it carefully and completely. Here at Holy Trinity, we have many beautiful and prayerful wedding liturgies; always keeping in mind that God is the central figure in the Catholic wedding.  Our Director of Music and our Marriage Preparation Coordinator generously share their time and gifts with you in this preparation. We have tried to address all of your questions within this booklet; however, you may have questions that we didn’t anticipate. For these please call Dcn. Steve and Marilyn Lemons, our Marriage Preparation Coordinators, at (913) 895-0608. They will try to answer any questions you may have regarding your preparation and wedding.

Often times couples get so caught up in the marriage preparation for a wedding that they lose sight of the sacredness of the occasion and the impact it can have on friends and families. It is a communal experience which goes far beyond the bride and groom. My prayer for you during these months of preparation is that you may come to an ever deeper appreciation of your marriage vocation and celebrate on your wedding day this call to be living sacraments of God’s love. Together may you follow the way of love as Christ loved you. (Ephesians 5:2)

Sincerely,

Rev. Mike Koller, Pastor