National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers

Strengthening the Church’s Commitment to Families

July News Nugget

The work of family life in the Catholic Church in this country is being challenged by the dire plight of families on our Southern border. As a group of people who are pledged to uphold God’s vision of mercy and the dignity of families, we need to ask ourselves some hard questions.

What are we doing to help those we work with see these families as “domestic churches?”

What have we learned from being family life ministers that can aid and support them?

How can we challenge our legislators to see the dignity of these families?

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

July 28-30, 2019

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