Teresa Tomeo and Deacon Dominick Pastore
Catholic Speakers on Marriage
Teresa and Deacon Dom are available for both in person and online-virtual events (Zoom, Skype, etc.) as well as hybrid gatherings.
If your parish, diocese, or ministry is planning a program for married or engaged couples, inviting Teresa Tomeo and her husband Deacon Dominick Pastore to speak at your event will inspire, inform, and uplift your audience. Whether you’re focusing on marriage preparation, marriage renewal, or just organizing a faith-based date night for Catholic and other Christian couples, including diaconate couples, your group will greatly benefit from Teresa and Deacon Dom’s talks that focus on opening hearts and minds to God’s plan for marriage.
Teresa and Deacon Dom have been married for nearly 40 years. They have been leading marriage retreats and pilgrimages since their journey home to the Catholic Church nearly 30 years ago. They offer a variety of faith-filled, yet down-to-earth presentations applicable to a variety of formats, such as day-long and weekend conferences, evening presentations, as well as parish missions-all built around the challenges of marriage and family life. Their honesty and transparency sprinkled with humor about their own struggles will grab the attention as well as the emotions of those gathered as they hear the miracles God has performed in their lives. Attendees will also walk away with practical steps to grow in faith, joy, and love with God at the center of their relationship.
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Cor 13:13
Presentations
- Love Changes Everything: A Marriage Testimony
- Because of You I Know God: The Power of Personal Witness in Marriage
- Intimate Graces: The Works of Mercy and Your Marriage
- For Better, For Worse, and Back: The Road to Emmaus—A Marriage Metaphor
- The Media and Your Marriage: Knowing How the Media Work So They Don’t Work on You and Your Spouse
- Remembering to Remember: How Looking Back Helps Us Move Forward with Hope and Joy
Suggested Audiences and Presentations
For Married Couples:
“Intimate Graces”
“For Better, For Worse, and Back”
“Love Changes Everything”
“Because of You I Know God”
For Troubled Marriages:
“Love Changes Everything”
“For Better, For Worse, and Back”
“The Media & Your Marriage”
“Intimate Graces”
“Because of You I Know God”
For Engaged Couples:
“Love Changes Everything”
“Intimate Graces”
“The Media & Your Marriage”
For Deacon Couples:
“Remembering to Remember”
“Intimate Graces”
“The Media & Your Marriage”
Presentation Summaries
“Love Changes Everything: A Marriage Testimony”
Teresa and Deacon Dom share their personal marriage journey of hope and healing.
This presentation includes:
- Teresa and Dominick’s marriage testimony
- Key ingredients for a joy-filled marriage
- Guidance for overcoming and learning from marriage difficulties
- Practical steps for growing together in faith and love
“Because of You I Know God: The Power of Personal Witness in Marriage”
Teresa and Deacon Dom share stories of faithful spouses whose witness changed not only their marriage, but other influenced others as well.
This presentation includes:
- An overview of Teresa and Deacon Dom’s testimony
- Surprising testimonies of other well-known couples, who were brought back into the fold by their spouse
- Guidelines on witnessing within a marriage
- Personal reflection questions for couples
“Intimate Graces: The Works of Mercy in Your Marriage”
Based on their popular book, Intimate Graces: How Practicing the Works of Mercy Brings out the Best in Marriage, Teresa and Deacon Dom examine the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy and their unique connection to married life.
This presentation includes:
- Teresa and Dominick’s marriage testimony as seen through the Works of Mercy
- An in depth look at the Works of Mercy in Scripture and Church teaching
- Guidance for better understanding their spouse through the Works of Mercy
- Questions for personal couple reflection
“For Better or Worse and Back: The Road to Emmaus—A Marriage Metaphor”
Using the Gospel account of the Road to Emmaus, Teresa and Deacon Dom take couples on their path of discovery; how they realized, that despite the many bumps in their marriage journey, Jesus was walking with them every step of the way.
This presentation includes:
- Teresa and Dominick’s marriage journey
- Guidance in discovering God’s presence in your marriage, in good times and in bad
- An explanation of the marriage triangle: You, your spouse, and God
- Questions for personal couple reflection
“The Media and Your Marriage: Knowing How the Media Work, So They Don’t Work on You and Your Spouse”
In this presentation, media expert Teresa Tomeo shares how media messages impacted her marriage, and how to prevent this from happening in your relationship.
This presentation includes:
- A brief overview of Teresa’s journey from secular anchor to media evangelist
- Powerful research on how the media influence marriage and family life
- Guidance from Scripture and Church teaching on media management
- Practical steps on media discernment and usage
- Helpful resources related to media awareness
“Remembering to Remember: How Looking Back Helps Us Move Forward with Hope and Joy”
In this presentation, Teresa and Dominick help couples remember their love story and rekindle the romance.
This presentation includes:
- A brief overview and Teresa and Dominick’s marriage testimony
- Scripture and Church teaching on the importance of remembering what God has done in our lives
- Inspiring stories of married saints
- Guidance on how God helps couples recapture and rekindle the romance
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Intimate Graces Book
Intimate Graces: How Practicing the Works of Mercy Brings out the Best in Marriage
Intimate Graces invites couples to reciprocate the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy to strengthen their marriage.
Bestselling author and Catholic media personality Teresa Tomeo and her husband, Dominick Pastore, invite couples to enrich their marriages by practicing the fourteen Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy. Through their own story and that of other married couples, Tomeo and Pastore demonstrate how reciprocating the Works of Mercy brings out the best in a marriage.
The Catholic Church encourages believers to perform Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, tangible actions that show charity toward others. In Intimate Graces they demonstrate how applying the fourteen traditional virtues of Catholic spirituality can foster deeper intimacy in any marriage. The couple uses personal stories and reflections, as well as the experiences of other Catholic couples, to show how a husband and wife can become, in a real way, a haven of compassion and virtue for each other.
Tomeo and Pastore each write in their own voice and include reflection questions, practical suggestions, and a prayer at the end of each chapter.
CLICK HERE to Purchase Intimate Graces: How Practicing the Works of Mercy Brings out the Best in Marriage
Resources
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