Marriage and Family Life News

This summer  FAMILIAS, the Association for Catholic Diocesan Marriage & Family Life Ministry in England & Wales, will be hosting three regional ' Restored Lives' divorce recovery training workshops for parish teams across England and Wale...Read more

Welcome to 'Where Two Are Gathered", a 7 day audio retreat for couples made in collaboration with the Diocese of Westminster in celebration of Marriage Week 2019 (13th - 19th May). PRAY-AS-YOU-GO REREAT FOR MARRIAGE WEEK One session will be ...Read more

This year's Marriage Week theme is 'Recipe for a Healthy Marriage'. The ingredients for that recipe are: Kindness; Friendship; Commitment; Forgiveness; Intimacy; Tolerant communication. It works on two levels, to get couples thinking abou...Read more

A model for Marriage Enrichment - Teams of Our Lady This November the GB Province of Teams of Our Lady (TOL) are celebrating the 60 To mark their Jubilee Year, Marriage and Family Life Westminster have, on behalf of Bishop Nicholas Hudson,...Read more

Lent is a gift to prepare us to celebrate Easter worthily. It is a time in which we can reflect more deeply on our spiritual and temporal life. In daily life we tend to make things more complex than they need be, rather than to place simplicity at...Read more

St Valentine's Token Book from the World Meeting of Families 2018.  Following Pope Francis' calls to celebrate St. Valentine's Day in a more meaningful way, the World Meeting of Families 2018 iinvited couples to think beyond the traditiona...Read more

February is sometimes viewed as a time of extended gloom and despondency as winter begins to strengthen its grip. In the natural world the familiar beauty of the landscape and the garden has departed and all seems stark. When we remind ourselves t...Read more

Advent is a time of joy and expectation. Those two words are reminders of what should always be at the core of our marriages and family life: joy in simply being together and in realising the expectation that, as we grow together as a couple and a...Read more

The creation of an Alliance of Catholic Marriage Organisations is a timely reminder that we are at our best when we work in collaboration with one another. In adopting a mutually beneficial approach to nurturing and supporting marriage, each of th...Read more

The beautiful Advent Tradition, Bambinelli Sunday, was instituted by Saint Pope John Paul II during his Papacy. The tradition follows that on the Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday) children and adults bring their Baby Jesus figures from th...Read more

Jesuit Media Initiatives and the Diocese of Westminster Marriage and Family Life team have joined forces to produce a series of imaginative contemplations to help families journey alongside the Holy Family in prayer this Advent. The series of s...Read more

We would like to draw to your attention this new partnership, which was launched to a gathering of the Bishops of England and Wales and their Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Coordinators and members of the organisations themselves at the recent ...Read more

Founded on the Catholic Church's vision for marriage and family life, and sensitive to the complex reality of family today, the Companion aims to support parishes, schools and chaplaincies in their interface with families, identifying take-o­ff...Read more

The theme for the World Meeting of Families in Ireland in August was The Gospel of the Family: The sessions have been written by Pia Matthews - wife, mother, theologian, Bishop John Sherrington and Bishop John Wilson. Forward by Fr Chr.....Read more