Helping You Thrive in Your Family Ministry
The Catholic Family Life Association (CFLA) offers support and professional enrichment to those who minister to families. Our goal is to foster a family perspective and advocate for family in the Church and society.
Formerly known as the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers (NACFLM), we recently changed our name to the Catholic Family Life Association to reflect our expanding outreach to families, individuals and dioceses. Our core mission remains the same: to serve family life ministers.
Whether you work with spouses, engaged couples, singles, grandparents, or families in crisis, you’ll get the resources you need to help families live out their God-given vocation to love.
Become a member today to access our entire collection of family ministry resources.
WE ARE FAMILY
Family Prayer
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