Marriage Date Night August 9, 2019

Deepening and rekindling your love and friendship with each other!

                 How to Be Married and Stay Engaged

It takes three types of intimacy for a marriage to flourish. Happily, these are also the basis of our Catholic Christian marriage vows. In down to earth and sometimes humorous ways, Dr. Jim Healy will show how to live these vows more fully and completely.

James Healy, Ph.D

Jim Healy has spoken on marriage in over 90 dioceses across the United States and beyond. His marriage materials, including How to Be Married and Stay Engaged, Living Together and Christian Commitment, Spirituality and Religion in Your Marriage, and Making Happiness a Habit: Four Steps to a More Joyful Marriage, are widely used.

Dr. Healy has contributed chapters to a number of books on family ministry, and has written for such magazines as Family Perspectives, Catholic World, Liguorian, Marriage, and Deacon Digest. He has also written online for the United States Council of Catholic Bishops website, For Your Marriage, for the First Day and For Ever electronic newsletter for the newly married, and for Franciscan Media’s Everyday Catholic.

Since 1989, Dr. Healy has been the director of the Office of Family Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Joliet, Illinois. He received his M.A. in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois in 1985.

Dr. Healy has served as an advisor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Marriage and the Family. He was honored with the 2000 Family Ministry Award by the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers. He and his wife Madonna have four adult children.