Education
Behold Your Child Marriage and Family Life Bereavement Support Group Catholic Charities Catholic Scouting Catholic Scouting CEW Adult Faith Formation Divorce and Separation Marriage and Family Life EngagedEncounter Marriage and Family
The Marriage Formation Department assists parishes with promoting the vocation of marriage, preparing engaged couples for marriage, providing marriage enrichment ministry, and caring for married couples who are struggling as well as caring for those
. This curriculum was created to implement the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) adaptation of the High School Curriculum. Parishes are not to be limited to only engaging teens in the content of the curriculum. More engagement is always
: Our goal is to support the participants on their journey to know God by helping them recognize who God is, appreciate the way God reveals Himself in their lives, and to help them to encounter the Living Word through a deeper understanding
The role of Sponsor/Mentor Couples is to provide engaged couples with a positive witness of the lived experience of marriage and help them connect with the parish community. Sponsor couples accompany engaged couples toward a deeper relationship
Sacraments as Privileged Encounters with Jesus Christ Fall of 2016, 2019, 2022
Overview: This theme will focus on helping participants understand that they can encounter Christ today in a full and real way in and through the sacraments
by breaking open the Word of God, engaging in meaningful conversation, and committing to care for one another.
We believe engaging adults in scripture, especially through lectio divina, leads to ongoing conversion and formation. There is no program
intimacy with each other and a shared deeper relationship with God. Below are resources to help engaged and married couples grow in their prayer lives together.
1. Know God calls each person to encounter Him in prayer. 2. Know that prayer is a personal dialogue and relationship with God. 3. Understand that prayer is the raising of their minds and hearts to God. 4. Know basic forms of prayer are blessing
igniting the hearts of the team members and the young people they encounter. The result has been the formation of young adults who continue to dedicate themselves to the Church’s mission of evangelization along with many vocations to the priesthood