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AUGUST 1, 2024 **MEDIA ADVISORY** Cardinal Burke encourages married couples at retreat ​LA CROSSE, WI - Friday evening, July 26, over 85 married couples made their way to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin to attend the first ever married couples retreat there: “Two Souls United in Christ.” By the invitation of His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, the retreat was organized and led by the Wojtyła Community & Institute, a non-profit organization founded by Peter & Theresa Martin to propagate The Rule for Married Couple Groups written by St. John Paul II in 1969. The married couples were encouraged

05/13/2024 - The summer issue of JOYFUL! is ready to read! JOYFUL! is the Wojtyła Community & Institute's quarterly communique. With articles, insights, personal stories, as well as news about the details of upcoming events and retreats ...

12/19/2023 - The Advent issue of JOYFUL! is ready to read! JOYFUL! is the Wojtyła Community & Institute's quarterly communique. With articles, insights, personal stories, as well as news about the details of upcoming events and retreats ...

10/10/2023 - The Wojtyła Community & Institute launches a quarterly communique: JOYFUL! With articles, insights, personal stories, as well as news about the details of upcoming events and retreats ...

09/01/2023 - The Wojtyła Community & Institute is excited to share that EWTN has invited Peter and Theresa Martin down to be on the "At Home with Jim and Joy" show!

8/23/2023 - WASHINGTON, D.C. The Pontifical John Paul II Insitute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America recently featured Peter Martin as their featured alumnus in an alumni email newsletter. The email included Peter's story ...

Mike and Alicia Hernon, from the Messy Family Project podcast, sit down with Peter and Theresa Martin interviewing them about St. John Paul II's Rule in this lively and entertaining exchange! watch here ...

Check out the latest PRESS on The Rule! OUR SUNDAY VISITOR: "JPII’s astonishing ‘rule’ for married couples available for the first time in English" by Katie Yoder March 20, 2023. WORD ON FIRE: "St. John Paul II’s Rule for a Joy-Filled Marriage" by Edyta McNichol APRIL 24, 2023. EPIC PEW: "Could Your Marriage Change The World? John Paul II Thinks So" by Laura Ricketts APRIL 19, 2023.

Wojtyła Institute Press is excited to announce its inaugural book: The Rule: St. John Paul II’s Rule for a Joy-Filled Marriage of Divine Love. In this book, Theresa and Peter Martin offer us the first English translation of Cardinal Wojtyła’s Rule as well as two other texts. They have brilliantly taken the concise, six-point “Rule for Married Couple Groups” written by St. John Paul II and expounded upon it, using St. John Paul II's own words, to explain his key to deepening conjugal spirituality and finding lasting joy!

4/25/22 – We have celebrated Easter - our Savior's glorious Resurrection! Concluding the octave with Divine Mercy Sunday, what a wonderful season we have only begun! This is the culmination of the great desire of God to bring us back to Himself - in an eternal Marriage Banquet of the Lamb! So, what a great moment to recap on what we have learned about Conjugal Spirituality this Lent! And what it means for us now.

Feb. 3, 2021 - As the Church continues in ordinary time, it can feel - well, 'just ordinary.' Sometimes our married lives can feel ordinary and that might cause us to feel down or defeated, feeling like maybe we should be doing something more - more extraordinary? ...

Aug. 17, 2021 - Hello, friends! In case you have not heard, Cardinal Raymond Burke, a holy, kind man and great shepherd of the Catholic Church, is in the hospital fighting Covid-19. The situation is serious. His Eminence is a longtime friend of our founders, Peter & Theresa Martin, and their family. He also supports the work and mission of the WCI!