Study Topics

Study Topics are an essential part of Teams life.  They provide couples with a focus for the development of their spiritual life. Couples research individually during each month and then share their joint thoughts with their team at the monthly meeting. Each year the International Movement provides a study topic for members. However, it is a matter for each team whether or not they use the recommended topic or find another that is perhaps more related to their own needs.

This page provides a few suggestions and any others that individual teams have found useful can be emailed to us for inclusion.

Couple Testimonies from the annual international college. A series of  testimonies about life in the couple's country of origin, together with questions for discussion, each suitable for a single meeting.

Reflections on the Pool of Bethesda (Meditations given by the Leading Couple Maria-Carla and Carlo Volpini at the 2010 international college held in Madrid.)

The Meaning of Marriage (A single session topic from Reading 5)

Deus Caritas Est (By Cheltenham 1, looking at Pope Benedict XVI's first Encyclical)

Faithfulness and Forgiveness (Jack Dominian's talk to the International Gathering in Santiago de Compostela, September 2000, in 5 Sessions.)

The Samaritan Woman at the Well (Based on a talk given by Fr Angelo Epis at the international college held in Durham, July 2007)