Christian and Christine Meert                      Phone: 719.471.9702

Mission Statement:

The Office of Marriage and Family Life assists pastors in their service to the "domestic Church" by offering a host of educational programs, events, services and resources designed to promote an authentic Catholic vision of marriage, human sexuality and family life. These include (but are not limited to):

• Marriage preparation programs
• Marriage enrichment programs
• Natural Family Planning services

"Christian and Christine Meert have dedicated their lives to preparing couples to live a happy and holy marriage. I am grateful that God called them to minister in our diocese." - Bishop Michael J. Sheridan

Christian and Christine Meert were married in France July 2, 1977. They have five daughters, six grand-daughters, and three grand-sons.

In 1990 they experienced a deep conversion and their family joined the Catholic Community of the Beatitudes in France leaving everything behind: job, family, friends, house etc. In 1999, Archbishop Charles Chaput in the Archdiocese of Denver invited the Community to start a house of prayer in Denver. Christian and Christine were in charge of this new house until the summer of 2003 until the community, recognizing their talent in preparing couples for the sacrament of marriage, gave them the opportunity and time to focus more on their calling to help engaged couples. They founded a non-profit organization Catholic Marriage Prep, Inc. which is dedicated to the building of strong Catholic marriages.

In July of 2005, Bishop Michael Sheridan re-opened the Office of Marriage and Family Life in the Diocese of Colorado Springs and hired Christian and Christine's organization to run it.