The Married Love Project began in 2002, when the Virgin entrusted it to a couple from Malaga: José
Luis and Magüi, while they were praying in Fatima. After starting a few small catechism groups, the
retreats began in 2016. Since then, it has been spreading rapidly throughout Spain and other parts
of the world. It is a diocesan method for marriages and families whose foundation is to know in
depth the greatness of the sacrament of marriage and, following the catechesis of Saint John Paul II, to implement these teachings in daily life.

Knowing the mission, the vocation to which we have been called.
The Married Love Project is a method for marriages that began in the diocese of Malaga and that is
spreading to many dioceses throughout Spain, parts of Europe, and South America, with the
supervision of the respective parish priests, the delegates of family pastoral care, and the bishops of
each diocese.

To strengthen our formation, some of us have completed the Master’s in Family Pastoral Care
from the John Paul II Institute. Some of us also work in the Family Pastoral Care of our diocese.

“THE THREE PILLARS” OF PROYECTO AMOR CONYUGAL

     1. Formation
     2. Prayer
     3. Love (Life)

• Formation (“understanding” marriage): learning from Revelation. More than 2000 years of
  revelation about marriage, from God through his Spirit, gathered in the Magisterium of the
  Church. It is not an ideology; it is a compendium of Truth.
• Praying together and receving the Sacraments (“with the help of Christ”): loving each other with the Love of Christ. The more He enters into us, the more His love will act and not mine.
• And loving (“living” the sacrament): the daily practice of surrender to nourish our Sacrament
  of Matrimony. You cannot love if there is no commitment, if there is no effort, and if there is
  no suffering.
  
  TESTIMONY OF MAGÜI AND JOSE LUIS
  
   FRUITS THAT WE ASK OF GODDrawing closer to God by doing his will, with Christ and in imitation of Christ, which brings about spiritual growth and perfects our communion. (CIC 1661 “The sacrament of Matrimony signifies the union of Christ with the Church. It gives spouses the grace to love each other with the love with which Christ loved his Church; the grace of the sacrament thus perfects the human love of the spouses, reaffirms their indissoluble unity, and sanctifies them on the path of eternal life.”)
  
• Living a foretaste of the Kingdom of God in this world: Communion, joy, peace, fullness… (CCC 1642 “…In the joys of their love and of their family life, he gives them, already here, a foretaste of the marriage supper of the Lamb…”)
• Being a light for our children (“See how they love one another”) Family as a school of love.
  (“You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden.” Mt 5:14) (“The
  family is the first and fundamental school of sociability; as a community of love, it finds in the gift of self the law that governs it and makes it grow. The gift of self, which inspires the
  mutual love of spouses, is set as a model and standard for the gift of self that must exist in
  relationships…” F.C. 37 JPII)
• Being salt of the earth for other marriages and families (“You are the salt of the earth. If
  salt loses its taste, how can it be made salty again? It is good only to be thrown away and
  trampled underfoot.” Mt 5:13)
• Being present to one another’s needs (Especially among the members of the group (“For
  this Man did not come to be served, but to serve” Mk 10:45)