Dear BLVED Trailer

Welcome to Dear BLVED!

The Dear BLVED podcast is a place to dive deep into relationships, femininity, and the stages leading up to marriage. Conversations rooted in the truth and doing our part in carrying on the work of John Paul II.

In this trailer episode get to know me, your host, Laura Jean, founder of The BLVED Collective, and learn about the ways that I am serving you.

I fell in love with theology from a young age. There is something about the truth that convicts and piques your interest. I was introduced to John Paul II and his teaching on Theology of the Body and loved that theology has so much to say on the human person and our experience here on this earth. With this hunger to learn everything I could about these topics I studied Theology in college and went on to study marriage and family Theology in graduate school at the International Theological Institute.

It was in grad school that I was struck with profound gratitude, not only for the things I was learning but because I was learning them as a young single woman. I knew that being formed in this way as a single person would impact every relationship I had moving forward and that is an incredible gift. I started thinking of ways that I can use my education to form young people in a similar way in the stages before marriage - and thats how I started The BLVED Collective.

The BLVED Collective exists to form young Catholic’s in the truth. I bring together Theology, philosophy, and practicality in this formation which makes it unique and approachable. In order to do this I enlisted some help of some great saints who have done their own work much better than I ever can imagine I might in this field. The patron saints of The BLVED Collective are John Paul II, Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin, and Edith Stein.

There is a lot of confusion in todays world about what is true and what is not. Sifting through the lies and devious plans of the devil is not an easy task, nor one that we can handle alone. It is something that we need Christ and our communities to come up around us and help us in our journey towards the truth.

The battle is not just a battle for marriages, other vocations are also effected. But what is crazy is that the preparations for other vocations is much longer than the preparation for marriage. Most people will get married, it is the natural vocation after all. However on average a young man will have 4-6 years of formation before he is ordained a priest and a young woman has about 4-8 years of formation before becoming a religious sister. This time of formation serves them well for their vocations and the duties that it entails. However marriage is not given the same formation period. On average the Church requires 6 weeks of formation for a couple before they can be married. That is simply not enough.

Preparation for marriage should be something that happens from day 1. And it does as John Paul II notes in familiars consortio. But he also mentions different kinds of marriage preparation, some more intentional than others. This intentional formation is what I am doing to help this preparation deficiency in the Church today. I have created Made BLVED which is a proximate marriage preparation program designed with single and dating young people in mind. To give them a similar formation to what I was able to receive as a single person studying Theology in graduate school. This 12 week program is both intellectual and practical formation for the young person who would like to be married one day.

In addition to Made BLVED which is the bread and butter here at The BLVED Collective, I also offer life formation coaching for young women and mentorship programs. Check out my website at www.theblvedcollective.com to learn more and to download some freebies to help you on your journey towards truth.

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