Marriage week to be celebrated

Proġett Impenn, that works to promote the values of marriage, will be carrying out a series of activities to mark marriage week between Monday and February 13.

The week will focus on the positive aspects of marriage at a time when couples are bombarded by the subject of divorce, Proġett Impenn chairman Rita Borg Xuereb said.

The activities will aim to encourage couples to rediscover one another and stop and think about their relationship and how then can improve it, Cana Movement director Fr Joseph Mizzi said.

Activities will include a national conference on the Family in Today’s Europe to be held at the Phoenicia ball room between 6.30 and 8.30 p.m. on Monday. On February 12 a seminar, entitled Family – Diversity, Effort or Sacrifice? Will be held for young people at Communications Centre in Birkirkara between 9 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.

The following day a Mass will be held at 9 a.m. to celebrate marriage day. Later that day, at 6.30 p.m., Archbishop Paul Cremona will meet couples who are planning to get married followed by a Mass at St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta.

Proġett Impenn was set up three years ago by the Cana Movement, Caritas Malta and the Diocesan Commission for the Family.