National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers
Strengthening the Church’s Commitment to Families
A Tool Kit to Celebrate Families
FAMILY LOVE 2022
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
Grant Writing 101
Best practices getting grants – NOT limited to only CMI Fund grants
CMI Grant Presentation
Overview of the up-to $50,000 matching grants
and how they connect to the launching of the new Framework
January News Nugget
The Synod on Synodality
By now we’ve all heard about Pope Francis Synod on Synodality which started Oct. 7, 2021 and will continue to Oct. 2023. But we must not let the two-year time frame lull us into procrastination. Perhaps your diocese is actively promoting local listening sessions. Great!
If not, YOU can start the process. Check out resources from the Leadership Round Table for ideas. Since the local listening sessions will be held from now through Spring 2022 it is urgent that dioceses call people together soon so that summaries can be compiled and sent to the Vatican by the end of Summer 2022.
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