Marriage & Family
Welcome! The Church welcomes you with great joy as you grow in the understanding of married life and live as a family. How an engaged couple, a married couple or a family lives their faith in the world impacts the life of the Church. The Office of Family Life works to help couples and families grow in relationship with God, empowering families at all stages to embrace faith at home and to build up the Church itself.
We achieve our mission by:
- Collaborating with parishes to support and strengthen the family, the basic unit of society and the church.
- Offering resources and guidelines to couples who desire to receive the Sacrament of Marriage as well as training mentor couples to accompany the engaged and civilly married as they prepare for and begin to live the vocation of marriage.
- Empowering parishes to foster strong marriages through marriage enrichment opportunities.
- Nurturing families as they build their own domestic church by being agents of evangelization through their daily lives at home.
- Offering pastoral support and resources for families who are hurting through grief, divorce or separation, domestic violence or other family challenges.
Please contact the Office of Family Life for more information.