Worldwide Marriage Encounter

Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekends are held throughout the United States and worldwide.  This website includes information about weekends held in the Northern Virginia area for the Arlington Diocese of Virginia.
Links for other areas within the state of Virginia  –  and the surrounding areas of Maryland, Washington DC, North Carolina, and South Carolina are available by [...]

Worldwide Marriage Encounter offers a weekend experience designed to give married couples the opportunity to learn a technique of loving communication that they can use for the rest of their lives. It’s a chance to look deeply into their relationship with each other and with God. It’s a time to share their feelings, hopes and [...]

Testimonials from couples who have attended a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend

We decided to take the encounter weekend not really knowing what to expect. When we got there we were pleasently surprised. We had a good marriage, but there we just things that we were not sharing. We did not realize how much we were really [...]

Worldwide Marriage Encounter
Mission Statement

Worldwide Marriage Encounter’s Mission of renewal in the church and change in the world is to assist couples and priests to live fully intimate and responsible relationships by providing them with a Catholic ‘experience’ and ongoing community support for such a lifestyle.