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John Kippley and his wife Sheila performed a remarkable service for the Church in the founding of the Couple to Couple League (ccli.org) in Cincinnati, OH back in 1971. They spent the next 33 years helping hundreds of thousands of people across the world live their faith and deepen their marital relationships. Such was their teaching that, in time, incorporated Pope John Paul II's new theological perspective, called the Theology of the Body, which provides a distinctive unsullied approach to understanding our human bodies as a reflection of our dignity as persons made in the image and likeness of God. It also furnishes a structure for assessing why certain conduct violates that dignity, while others are indisputable gifts of self and love.
With faith and family as the focus of their lives, they "went out into the deep" navigating many unchartered waters that were intersecting with Christian Marriage, Christian Discipleship, the Nature of Christian Marriage, the Essence of Marital Love, Human Sexuality, Communication, Catholic teaching, morality, artificial birth control, and much more. One of the resultant legacies that must be credited to them was the dawn and developmental work in the Natural Family Planning movement and in Ecological Breastfeeding. It's here in a nutshell!
This book represents a small summary of their work, spanning across the many years and these many topics, making this an excellent resource for couples preparing for marriage. It can and many should supplement any Marriage Preparation Program or can act as the bare minimum acceptable for such preparation. Without undue burdening, the first nine chapters can be read and studied privately by couples, three chapters at a time, and later discussed with a local parish priest or preparation team. In doing so, it definitely provides a Catholic understanding of Christian Marriage and what couples are asking of the Church in approaching it to be married.
The book also contains appendices that contain the Rite or Marriage in such a way that the Readings, Prayers, and other options pertaining to marriage can be reviewed and chosen appropriately for Marriage within Mass (Nuptial), outside of Mass (Ceremony), and of differing faiths. Forms are supplied for these selections, which once filled, can be submitted to the celebrant as a final part of the preparation.
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