Through spiritual formation and teaching the Church's ministers seek to help couples who are preparing for marriage to accomplish certain fundamental goals:

• Discovering God's gift of faith
• Renewing one's prayer and sacramental practice
• Learning mature love through chastity
• Entering into a dialogue that results in true and honest knowlege of one another and each others' qualities
• Coming to know the essential elements of married love with a particular
• Focus on the ends of marriage: the mutual good of the spouses and procreation, and education of children
• Growing in freedom so that the exchange of vows can be a truly free act of love