National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers
Strengthening the Church’s Commitment to Families
NACFLM & Catholic Marriage Initiatives
hosted a 2-part webinar series centered on grant opportunities to implement the pastoral framework! (watch below)
Click here for RFP for Catholic Marriage Initiatives Fund Grant
USCCB’s NEW Pastoral Framework for Marriage and Family
CMI Grant Presentation
Overview of the up-to $50,000 matching grants
and how they connect to the launching of the new Framework
Grant Writing 101
Best practices getting grants – NOT limited to only CMI Fund grants
2021 CONFERENCE SPONSORS
November News Nugget
The Vatican has asked Catholics around the world to enter into a conversation to prepare for the 2023 synod. The process is intended to inspire people to dream about the church we are called to be, to make people’s hopes flourish, to stimulate trust, to bind up wounds, to weave new and deeper relationships, to learn from one another, to build bridges, to enlighten minds, warm hearts, and restore strength to our hands for our common mission. What part will we, as family life ministers, play in facilitating this ambitious process?
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