National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers
Strengthening the Church’s Commitment to Families
NACFLM & Catholic Marriage Initiatives
will host a 2-part webinar series centered on grant opportunities to implement the pastoral framework!
(watch or register below)
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 – October 28, 2021 at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT
Best practices getting grants
– NOT limited to only the grants from the CMI Fund
2021 CONFERENCE SPONSORS
October News Nugget
The new Pastoral Framework for Marriage and Family Ministry highlights four Areas of Formation that are identified in the US Bishops’ Resource for Guiding Development of Lay Ecclesial Ministry, Coworkers in the Vineyard. In what area of formation do you want to seek updating?
- Human: Human qualities critical to form wholesome relationships and necessary to be apt instruments of God’s love and compassion
- Spiritual: A spirituality and practice of prayer that root them in God’s Trinitarian life, grounding and animating all they do in ministry
- Intellectual: Adequate knowledge in theological and pastoral studies, along with the intellectual skill to use it among the people and cultures of our country
- Pastoral: The practical pastoral abilities called for in their particular ministry
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