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Meet Your Mentoring Couple
We’re Tony & Charisse Rubio—We’d be honored to walk with you during this special season of your life
When we were engaged, we dreamed of a wedding that would place Christ at the very center. Our vows were exchanged during our parish’s Sunday Mass, surrounded not only by our families and friends, but also by the community we worshipped with each week. Later that day, we welcomed guests into our home for a joyful open-house reception... complete with music, children’s laughter, and the fellowship of faith-filled friends. It was a simple, grace-filled day that remains the happiest of our lives.
That experience continues to shape our ministry today. For nearly a decade, we have accompanied individuals, couples, and families through the blessings and challenges of life. Together we founded Our Domestic Church, a ministry rooted in prayer, Ignatian spirituality, and the lived wisdom of the Catholic faith.
As your mentor couple, we don’t pretend to have all the answers... but we will listen, encourage, and share both the joys and the lessons we’ve learned in marriage. Our hope is to help you grow closer to Christ and to one another as you prepare for a lifetime of love.
Ready to begin your journey with a mentor couple?
Walking Toward Marriage: The Church’s Vision
Marriage preparation is not just a step before the wedding, but part of a lifelong journey of faith. The Church invites couples to see this journey in three beautiful phases that help you grow into your vocation of married love:
- Growing in Faith Before Engagement (Remote Preparation)
Marriage preparation begins long before you are engaged. This early phase is about deepening your faith, learning to form healthy and life-giving relationships, and discovering your vocation as a beloved son or daughter of God. Every prayer, retreat, and act of service helps to lay the foundation for your future vocation — whether to marriage, religious, or a generous single life.
- Learning and Discernment During Engagement (Proximate Preparation)
Engagement is much more than planning a wedding. It's a time of preparing your hearts for a sacrament. In this phase, couples are invited to grow in prayer, communication, and mutual understanding. With the help of mentors, retreats, and parish formation, you learn what it means to give yourself fully in marriage. You begin to see marriage as a covenant of self-giving love and a mission to be a living witness of Christ’s love for His Church.
- Spiritual Readiness Before the Wedding (Immediate Preparation)
The final weeks before the wedding can be busy and full of details, but the Church invites couples to pause and make space for grace. Intentional times of prayer together and the Sacrament of Reconciliation help you prepare for your wedding liturgy and enter into marriage with peace, joy, and Christ at the very center of your life together.
Each phase is a grace-filled opportunity to draw closer to Christ and to one another. We are here to walk with you in this sacred journey and help you build a strong, lasting foundation for your marriage.
Read more about the three phases of marriage preparation in our blog post.