What is the pre-Cana program like?
It is a one-day meeting with married couples giving presentations on various aspects of married life followed by discussions both with a couple and then in a group setting. 6. What is meant by an annulment of a marriage? A marriage annulment declares that there was something present that prevented a sacramental marriage from taking place. It does not deny the civil marriage. It is a declaration by the Church that a given marriage was not valid at the time the parties attempted to contract it, meaning that the parties were not genuinely married by it and so are or were free to contract a subsequent marriage. An annulment is a declaration that there never was, in actuality, a marriage whereas a divorce is the dissolving of a marriage that really existed.