Catholic Family Life Association
Strengthening the Church’s Commitment to Families
Catholic Marriage Initiative Grant Opportunities
CFLA has created a subsidiary Federation for Hispanic Family Life Ministry – Federación para la Pastoral Familiar Hispana (FPFH) to address the growing need for Family Life Ministry with Hispanics.
Join CFLA and join the Federation – your ministries will benefit!
For more information about the Federation for Hispanic Family Life Ministry (Federación para la Pastoral Familiar Hispana), please email us at cflahispanicfederation@gmail.com or call (202) 455-0880
Video Experiences from the World Meeting of Families
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHrwjGpyGS8…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_68o8khyTk&list=PLpPo2yhTnfavFTr-rSC6fk7kkNXANXra6&index=1
September News Nugget
Pandemic lessons
After several years of the Covid pandemic, what have we learned? Sure, many of our programs have morphed into online venues. Facing life & death more directly has deepened spirituality for some. Other Catholics have taken long, maybe permanent, vacations from “Church.” Seek out those who have left and find out why. Rebuild relationships. Jesus did not work in a vacuum. He invited others to journey with him. It’s all about community seeking God together.
Our Organizational Members
Our Organizational Members provide CFLA 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
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