Saturday, January 2, 2010

H: How holy are we, anyway? Part 3

I noticed that I forgot to update what happened when we met again with the matrimony coordinator, Karla! Oops.
But first things first, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRACY!!!

We met with her this past Monday (though we almost didn't since her printer wasn't functioning- she made it happen, though). We got the results of our FOCCUS test, which in an of itself is pretty interesting. The answers are broken up into different categories (personality, finances, etc.) and shows all the results with everyone's answer, including the church's, and our three answers (consisting of either A= agree D = disagree or U = uncertain) would be at the left with the question following it. For example:
M F C
D D D I am sometimes afraid of my future spouse.
(M = male, F= female, C= church.)

For most of them, we were all in agreement. (Incidentally, Josh and I had 100% compatibility for the personality section and apparently that doesn't happen a lot. Yay us!)
For those that we were not in agreement on, the test set the question aside as a topic of discussion, which I thought was pretty cool.
Once Karla explained how that worked, she gave us a homework assignment; take the test home, and write in what you had decided on for the topics to be discussed. For example, if you feel that your spouse is messier than you'd like, you discuss it and then write in what you've determined i.e.: "so-and-so will be making a conscious effort to pick up more", or "so-and-so will leave a list for so-and-so to take care of during the day" or "so-and-so can handle the mess", etc. Whatever is decided. Once we're done with that (there's no rush), we'll take it back to Karla and she'll put it in our church file. Where it will stay. Forever. And ever. <-- How she said it to us.
She said that she knew it sounded weird, but the Church keeps a file in case, God forbid, our marriage should fail and we should seek an annulment. Yikes.
While we were there, was also got the chance to talk to her, just in general about who we are as people. I got lesson in how Canon law works and how laws are made, and I discovered that the sacrament that Josh will be receiving is a sacrament (little "s") not Sacrament (big "S") which is fine. Also, the position of the church is no longer that those who commit suicide go to hell, and the ban on birth control is more of a preference by a previous Pope than a mandate. All in all, it was another pleasant visit with Karla, and up next is to do our Pre-Cana counseling and get Josh's baptismal certificate from the church in Georgia where he was baptized.
To be honest, I find it all pretty interesting!

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