One of the action plans submitted to teach marriage as a venue to holiness was establishing a children's ministry to the newly married. First grade takes couples at their first anniversary. Second grade takes couples who've been married two years, and so on. Other plans included focusing on marriage as a vocation during a school's annual vocation week and studying the spouses of great historical figures. Students explore the themes through a variety of mediums, including readings, reflection, listening to audio cassettes, viewing videos, observing paintings and icons and through silent prayer.
Silence is a consistent component of the class format.
Fifteen minutes before the end of the class, he sets aside another 15 minutes for silent prayer. Nuzzi says he built in the silent prayer to help students focus at the beginning of the class, to revisit their experiences of the class, to concentrate on important insights and observations while they are still fresh and to exercise humility by allowing God to speak to them both before and after they attempt to speak of God. Some of the outcomes Nuzzi says he hopes students will take with them are understanding leadership as a manifestation of spiritual purpose, being able to talk about the relationship between a private, inner prayer life and a public life of service and being able to differentiate relationship-building from efficient management, or affective collegiality from effective collegiality. If we don't have the affective, we'll never be effective leaders. Our faith says we are all equal.