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    Birmingham Catholic Engaged Encounter

    Birmingham Catholic Engaged Encounter

    4.0(1 review)
    14.8 mi

    My fiance and I are an interfaith couple (I'm Catholic, he's Assembly of God). We were required to…read morego since we want a Catholic blessing for our marriage (really, it was to appease my mom). To be honest, we were ready to fight this whole experience. I mean, seriously, I went in with the worst attitude and was fully prepared to just go through the bare minimum emotions to get our certificate of completion. It actually turned out to be way more beneficial than I could ever expect. Here's the breakdown of our experience: Food: What we were served Saturday was not the same quality of what we were served Sunday. It was night and day. Saturday's eggs looked like Egg Beaters. Sunday's were delicious. Saturday's bread didn't have much flavor. Sunday morning's bread was something special you'd have like Christmas morning. Saturday was "pepperoni spaghetti." Sunday was fried chicken. You get the picture. To be fair, the retreat center was brand spanking new. Room situations: You do not share a room with your fiance (surprise to me at first, but then I'm like "duh, these are Catholics we're talking about.") I was put in a room with 2 other girls who were perfectly normal people and were really nice. One of my roommates actually had a fiance who was my fiance's roommate so we ended up eating all our meals together. We made two new friends, so that was a bonus :) Time: Be prepared to be devoted to this retreat. You get some breaks, but they're short. You will get up early and stay up late. Cost: $275-$290 depending on if you're getting married in the state or not (we're not). I hear there are scholarships available if the price is too high. Presentations: There were two presenting couples. One had been married for 30 years+. The other 10 years+. Both with lots of kids. They were very nice and welcoming. Some of the topics were more interesting than others (NFP-Natural Family Planning- turned out to be one of the most interesting for us). Every topic, of course, went back to religion and God, but they were very relevant topics, including raising a family to handling finances. Workbooks: Yes, you are given workbooks. What happens is the couples have a presentation on, say, finances. They talk about their own experience as a married couple. Then they ask the couple's to be in separate rooms and write out answers to questions in the book. This seems really tedious, and, I'm not going to lie it is intense. But my fiance and I learned a lot about each other. Overall, my fiance and I were very happy with our experience. We were able to take a break from wedding planning (which was very much needed) and just focus on us as we prepare to get married. My best piece of advice is to have a positive attitude and take the retreat seriously. That mindset definitely helped us.

    Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament

    Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament

    4.8(12 reviews)
    18.5 mi

    We came here, the destination, the REASON for our Jubilee 2025 Pilgrimage, of the USA, that my…read morehusband gave ourselves for our 51st Wedding Anniversary, was to be HERE! We made it, finally! I am jumping up and down with joy. We're privileged to complete this dream. We took the tour. We were hoping to attend mass inside the shrine, but it happened, downstairs at the Crypt Church, where Mother Angelica was buried (along with the other Poor Clare Nuns. The shrine was probably like walking in Heaven. We get to join the sisters (on tape) pray the Rosary, and we sat in the front. Attending the Mass there, would have made my trip 1,000% satisfied. So, I'm mostly reviewing of our tour of the shrine. Brother Leo, a Lifetime Brother, gave us the tour. He was also the Altar Server, of the Live ETWN Mass we were at earlier. He was so informative, and answered all the questions I've been wanting to know about the shrine, indoors and outdoors, upper and lower churches, and St. Joseph's Garden, and the surrounding acreage, who lives there, who farms there, who were buried in the crypt, etc. It was something I would come back and explore more of the other tours they have. Maybe, even come back just to attend the mass, at the shrine. That's something to think about, in our next Road Trip. I LOVE THIS PLACE! It reminds me what going to church was like in my youth. If I wasn't married, that was what I wanted to do, live in a convent and be a nun. No joke! I walked and dressed and veiled like a nun, and walked around the garden, carrying my Rosary, and did just that, with a towel pinned to my head.

    Most beautiful place to go for prayers and just a place of worship to walk around and feel the…read moreenergy. Sometimes you just need to sit at the shrine higher power.

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