Now, I’m REALLY beginning to feel Marc and I are accomplishing wedding requirements. We’re almost through with the Church requirements, can you believe that (I know I can’t). We finally got through the pre-Cana seminar, and up until now I’m still scratching my head in confusion over it.
The main reason Marc and I have only gotten to attending this seminar just now was primary because of sleepiness. Marc’s in the night shift, and I work best in the evenings (so technically, I was in the night shift too). The seminar starts at 10am, and you really can’t blame us for doubting our bodies to stay awake an entire day without any sleep. And when I think of pre-Cana seminar, I think of religious people with Powerpoint presentations on a projector screen droning on and on about what-is and what-not’s of marriage. Blame it on my tertiary education. I went to a Jesuit-run university, so it’s really not that far out to think of religious stuff in such an academic setting.
Marc and I argued who would sleep first on the earlier parts of the seminar (yeah I know, we’re evil). One of us had to be awake, you know. Just like in a classroom… Anyway, we got there at the Parish a few minutes after 10am (we’re evil AND we’re rude, we’re going straight to hell). We filled up some forms and waited for the priest to arrive, which is kind of annoying since we worried about getting late for nothing hehehe.
When the priest did arrive, we noticed that there was only one other couple with us (so much for sleeping through the thing). Which is strange… Why would you waste electricity on setting up a projector for ONLY two couples?
Duh. Because it wouldn’t be needed. The “seminar” doesn’t even come close to being a seminar (not even “counselling” for crying out loud), it was more like… CONSULTATION. And a really quick one at that. The priest just gave us bullet points of what should have been a paragraph each. His message was simple, really:
“Sex is a gift from God to married couples. Experiment! Don’t give your partner a reason to leave you.”
Ok… And then he became more specific:
“If your wife/husband wants oral sex, give it to her/him.”
Very short, but very concise. He went STRAIGHT to the point (and I thought I was lazy hehe). But you got to admit, this priest isn’t someone you’d forget in a jiffy. You won’t forget what he SAID in a jiffy.
Now that’s what I call a “unique” pre-wedding seminar! I wouldn’t have slept through it even if I tried.
So boys and girls… Remember, when you get married… Sex is a gift from God to married people, so EXPERIMENT! 😀
Hahaha what kind of seminar was that?! And about what he said… I’d surely keep that in mind hehe! 😀
natawa ako dun sa part na going straight to the point… I wouldn’t imagine that a priest would say that..oh ok fine! they’re people din naman…pero napaka straight to the point yun wahahahaha. I know what you feel about this seminar. I’m a catholic and then my kumare went through with this too so I know how you feel.
Sex is a gift from God to married people, so EXPERIMENT! 😀
I will DEFINITELY remember that 😉
lol but sex is truly a gift from God. It is not a sin 😛 Premarital sex, that’s the sin 😛
Is it safe to assume you were amused hearing that? Haha, I’d be. 😀 😀 😀
It WAS an amusing experience. The last thing you’d expect a pre-wedding seminar to be :p
sex is a gift from God, tama.
maybe in a few more years. lol
Actually nagegets ko kung bakit sinabi yun ng pari eh.
A priest friend told us once about the most common reasons he would hear from husbands who are confessing that they cheated on their wife:
a) ayaw akong i-oral ng misis ko
b) malamig at tuyo yung misis ko
c) ‘di na nagpapaganda asawa ko kaya di na ako naaarouse sa kanya
d) yung misis ko masyadong tahimik habang nagsisiping
The list goes on and on.
Hi Gail! I dunno if you still remember me but I used to be in your blog links. It was quite a long time ago. Anyways, got here from Yuga’s recent entry about the Technorati top 100 Philippine Blogs.
Pre-wedding seminars are really important for Christian couples. you learn of new things about each other and get to know each other better, you also learn how to handle and react to certain situations, and sex is indeed an important part of marriage and which should be discussed in that type of seminar.
God bless with the wedding plans! Have a nice day! 🙂
After 21 years of marriage, I can say that these seminars guided me in our marriage. I attended a 2 day pre-cana seminar not just to fulfil the church requirements but because I wanted to learn. It is true, Sex is God’s gift to married couples. It’s a a wonderful gift and my husband and I often use it to be close to each other.
I wished it WAS a seminar 😛 We only got bullet points from the priest! He just said those things… Then left.
Noemi: Two days? Now, that’s a seminar. Ours took only two MINUTES 😛
Jaypee: I’ll add you again. I lost the links from the old WP install.
Jon: That’s true. I also heard that from our theology class… Siguro it would have been better if I just attended another theo class 😛
Aaron: I said… FOR MARRIED COUPLES 😛 Hehehehe