National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers
Strengthening the Church’s Commitment to Families
HISPANIC FEDERATION
NACFLM 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 NACFLM 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 hispanicfederationnacflm@gmail.com.
NACFLM & Catholic Marriage Initiatives
2nd round of Grants from CMI
NACFLM & Catholic Marriage Initiatives
hosted a 2-part webinar series centered on grant opportunities to implement the pastoral framework!
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
USCCB’s NEW Pastoral Framework for Marriage and Family
May News Nugget
Traditionally, the month of May highlights various devotions to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Over the past few decades, society’s understanding of the womanhood has broadened beyond childcare, homemaking, and working behind the scenes to include leadership and strength. These are qualities that Mary must have also had to stand by Jesus during times of crisis and pain. Let us hold up both gentleness and courage as we minister to both women and men in today’s world.
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