Adult Enrichment

Celebrate Marriage
Learn to love one another in a more special way by sharing a Marriage Encounter weekend with your spouse.
The weekend experience is aimed at revitalizing Christian Marriage by helping married couples communicate more intimately with one another to deepen and enrich their relationship.
The encounter weekend teaches a communication technique which permits each couple to explore important areas of their relationship in a spirit of love and understanding. It helps to keep the focus on each other despite the daily pressures of the world.
Share a worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend and strengthen those priorities. Upcoming dates:   July 19-21, August 16-18, September 13-15, October 11-13. For information or reservations call David & Michele Muzilla (630) 577-0778.

IS YOUR MARRIAGE TEARING YOU APART
If your marriage has become troubled or stressed, unloving or uncaring, or if your relationship has grown cold or distant, if you are thinking of separation or divorce, or if you are already separated or divorced, but you want to try again – then RETROUVAILLE is the program that can help you. For more information, call 1-800-470-2230. You may call anonymously. Please be assured that all names are kept in the strictest confidence. No group discussions. Hope is only a phone call away!  Call for  dates.

BEGINNING EXPERIENCE is a weekend program designed to help divorced, separated and widowed people make a new beginning in life.  A trained team of volunteers who have themselves experienced the pain of separation, divorce, or death of a spouse conducts the weekend.    For information and to register call Gert at 847-549-6270 or the Center for Family Ministry at 815-838-5334.

“COPING WITH GRIEF” (A Ten Week General Grief Group For Adults)
Cost: None
Place: Elmhurst Memorial Hospital The Bates Conference Room
Facilitator: Chaplain Don Dahlheimer, M.Div., LCSW, Manager of Pastoral Care LMFT
For: Any adult who has experienced the death of someone they have loved
For more information call: 630/833-1400, extension 47058.

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)
During this year of Jubilee, we have been invited to seek a deeper level of personal conversion in our own lives. At the same time we recall our obligations to be signs of hope and gentle invitation to our brothers and sisters seeking a deeper relationship with God through the Catholic Church. Each of us needs to discern with the light and fire of the Holy Spirit how we are to share our faith. Our faith inevitably grows and deepens when we do share it. Contact Sister Peg (860-1120) for further information.