{"id":16943,"date":"2026-01-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marija.si\/preparation-for-christian-marriage-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:02:48","slug":"preparation-for-christian-marriage-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/announcement\/preparation-for-christian-marriage-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation for Christian Marriage 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"display:flex; flex-direction:column\">\n      Preparation for the sacrament of marriage, for married and family life, is of extraordinary importance for both the spouses and the community. <\/p>\n<p>The Church wants to help the couple to have a happy, strong, and rich marriage. &#8220;For love is strong as death, passionate love as fierce as the grave!&#8221; (Song of Solomon 8:6).<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis, in the apostolic exhortation to families &#8220;The Joy of Love,&#8221; regarding marriage preparation, states: &#8220;Both immediate preparation and ongoing accompaniment must lead to the clarity that the engaged couple does not see marriage as the end of a journey, but accepts it as a calling that moves them forward, with a firm and realistic determination to face all trials and difficult moments together. Both pre-marital and marital pastoral care must primarily be a spiritual shepherding of connection, providing points that help love to mature, but also to overcome difficult periods&#8221; (AL, 211).<\/p>\n<p>Info: Janez \u0160imenc, parish priest in Kranjska Gora<br \/>\njanez.simenc@rkc.si; 041 698 508<br \/>\nRegistration: www.zupnija-kranjska-gora.rkc.si<br \/>\nWhere: Brezje 72, Franciscan monastery (hall above the sacristy)<br \/>\nDates: (2nd, 3rd, and 4th Sunday of the month from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM)<br \/>\nFebruary, May, June, October<\/p>\n<p>More information, a brief content description, and e-registration form:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/zupnija-kranjska-gora.rkc.si\/index.php\/content\/display\/652\/te-aj-priprave-na-zakon\/20<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparation for the sacrament of marriage, for married and family life, is of extraordinary importance for both the spouses and the community. The Church wants to help the couple to have a happy, strong, and rich marriage. &#8220;For love is strong as death, passionate love as fierce as the grave!&#8221; (Song of Solomon 8:6). Pope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gallery":"[natural-gallery id=\"null\"]","dateEnd":"31. 12.","displayOrder":7,"videosArray":[],"audiosArray":[],"othersArray":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17488,"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions\/17488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marija.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}