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FALL RIVER DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS

t eanc 0 VOL 29, NO. 30

FALL RIVER, MASS., FRIDAY, AUGUST 2,1985

$8 per year

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The Morins

The Right Start. By Pat

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M~Gowan

As with most things, the right start is vitally important to a solid ,marriage. , Raymond and Edna Morin of St. Anne's parish, Fall River, think :that right start is so important that they're devoting full time to making :it available to as many couples as possible. ' To them the right start is spelled Engaged Encounter, a weekend program during which couples planning marriage examine them足 selves, their relationship and the vocation of marriage. The Morins, married for 38 years, parents ofthree, grandparents of seven and parish Eucharistic ministers, have devoted much of their time for the past seven years to EE, as the program is informally called. In that time they have conducted many weekends both inside and "outside the Fall River diocese. ' Now retired, they're devoting even more time to EE, since July 1 serving as its diocesan coordinators. In their new role they work with

Father Marc H. Bergeron under the auspices ofthe Diocesan Office of Family Ministry, directed by Father Ronald A. Tosti. As e,nthusiastic about wedded life as if they'd walked down the aisle last Saturday, the Morins see' t~eir job as one of "Olrdinary people happily married who want to make sure other couples are." EE, they said, is an outgrowth of Marriage Encounter, also a weekend program, designed to "make good marriages better." Its success made organizers realize that its principles could well be applied to couples before as well as after marriage. Often, say the Morins, young people decide during an EE weekend, as they discover hitherto unrevealed aspects of each other;to postpone or cancel wedding plans. Such a weeding-out process contribute to a significantly lower percentage of divorces among EE couples. The Morilils cited a New Jersey study that followed 3,000 EE couples for five yc:ars and found Continued on page eleven


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