National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers

Strengthening the Church’s Commitment to Families

December News Nugget

History Tidbit from NACFLM Legacy and Foundations by Maureen Wood, Father Don Conroy, and Dr. David Thomas

Call to Action

A national listening project highlighted the need for marriage & family ministry

In 1976, as part of the Bicentennial celebration of the founding of the United States, the bishops of the Catholic Church initiated a national listening process named “the Call to Action.”
More than 800,000 participated in parish and diocesan gatherings, culminating in a national meeting in Detroit.
Toward the end of 1976, under the leadership of Father Donald Conroy and the support of Marriage and Family Living magazine, the twelve locally elected regional representatives of family ministry gathered at the University of Chicago to discuss future directions for marriage and family ministry in the United States and to begin consultation on the direction that should be taken by the bishops’ commission soon to be convened.

2019 NACFLM Conference

Denver, Colorado

The Future Starts With The Family

July 28-30, 2019

Join us for an annual gathering of
Catholic family life ministers from
across the country.

Ministry with Family Training

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Resources From Our Organizational Members

Our Organizational Members provide NACFLM members, other family life parish ministers, and clergy with resources they can use in their local communities to strengthen marriages and families.

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WE ARE FAMILY

Family Prayer

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Lord God, we thank you for the gift of family. We acknowledge that our image and name as family come from you.

We believe that within our family lies a home-made holiness. We affirm that it is this household of faith that we experience Your presence. Your forgiveness, and Your love.

We are family. We give thanks to You, for the many joys and blessings that have come to us through our family.

As family, we sometimes feel pain.l And so we offer to You our disappointments, frustrations, and hurts. Help us to forgive those members of our family, including ourselves, who have caused pain.

We pray for the strength to be a light within our family. May we open our hearts, our eyes and ears and carry our light to those in need.

God, Creator of the earth and all its people, help us to be mindful that, as members of one global family, we are equal in Your eyes. Help us to continue to appreciate the diversity of persons in our homes and in our world. As members equal in human dignity, may we build a better world and proclaim our willingness to be the holy people you call us to be.

Amen