National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers
Strengthening the Church’s Commitment to Families
Details Coming Soon!!
June News Nugget
Pursue Ongoing Formation
Regardless of our age or time in ministry, formation is an on-going process that deepens the minister’s relationship with God and improves his or her abilities in ministry. Each person should devise a plan that fits his or her ministerial goals. In developing a plan, individuals should take into consideration the needs of the parish (or other institution) as well as his or her individual intellectual, spiritual, human and pastoral desires. Learn more about these “Four Pillars of Ministry Formation” in the USCCB Document for guiding the development of Lay Ecclesial Ministry, Co-workers in the Vineyard. (please embed the link: https://www.usccb.org/upload/co-workers-vineyard-lay-ecclesial-ministry-2005.pdf
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.
Organizational Member Spotlight
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