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"We priests will roll up our sleeves," said Father Morehead. "We're leaning back into this, to form a deeper partnership with lay faithful in the preparation for the sacrament." Father Morehead added that the Entrust retreat takes a "theologically robust approach." He also outlined the Entrust retreat's presentations and emphasis. "Our talks begin first with a pre- sentation of the Gospel, the kerygma. Most marriage prep retreats don't," he said. "They don't presume to be evan- gelical and to want to draw people to the full expression of the Catholic Christian faith." The second presentation is about how to enculturate the Catholic faith into home life, with a sacramental worldview. The third presentation focuses on marriage as a sacrament and how it should be lived from the beginning of marriage on the wedding day and throughout the married cou- ple's lives. A fourth presentation addresses "the authentic good of sexuality but with a robustly, scientifically informed presentation." It also dis- cusses temptations against marital chastity and the goods of marital chastity, Father Morehead explained. "We are trying to invite a couple to invite Jesus into their marriage and we do that through living authenti- cally our own vocation, and allowing that to excite this couple to live fully and authentically their own voca- tion," Father Ciucci said. "Then it becomes symbiotic. It becomes mutu- ally life-giving." Engaged couples should learn to walk alongside their priest, he said, because a priest will be there on their wedding day, when they want their child baptized, and when they want to go to the Sacrament of Recon- ciliation. If they go to church every Sunday, which Church teaching requires, they'll see a priest there too. "But having those regularized sac- ramental touchpoints is not the same as knowing a priest, inviting him over, becoming friends with him and We are trying to invite a couple to invite Jesus into their marriage and we do that through living authentically our own vocation, and allowing that to excite this couple to live fully and authentically their own vocation. Then it becomes symbiotic. It becomes mutually life-giving." FATHER CIUCCI allowing him to know you and your marriage more deeply and person- ally," Father Ciucci said. "When a couple is preparing for marriage, they start to hear things that the Church has been proclaim- ing all the while, but they hear them afresh and anew," he added. "Marriage is such a personal sacrament. What we're trying to do is use this privi- leged time well, because we have their attention." The next Entrust retreat is sched- uled for Nov. 10-11 at Most Precious Blood Parish, with a cost of $200 per couple. It fulfills the Archdiocese of Denver's marriage preparation requirement. Interested couples may sign up through the Evangelization and Family Ministries section of the archdiocese's website. 40 FEB-MAR 2024 | DENVER CATHOLIC Wedding at Holy Ghost Parish, Denver, CO. Photo by Olivia Britt Photography.