The California Catholic Conference has also announced "Radiate Love: Celebrating Marriage & Family" with a year of prayer and activity in all California parishes.
As a practical way to incarnate the grace of the Eucharistic Revival into our families and communities, the bishops of California are dedicating the 2024-2025 pastoral year to helping the Catholic faithful renew and deepen our lived experience of the Sacrament of Marriage – which is modeled on the irrevocable covenantal love of God for his people expressed in the Eucharist.
Under the title “Radiate Love,” every Catholic community is invited to participate in this initiative, starting on World Marriage Day – February 11, 2024 – when couples all over the globe are called by God to invest in their relationships and let that love radiate out to the whole world, first and foremost in their own family. This soft launch of the initiative will be followed by monthly reflections, prayers, and other materials to help form the faith of Catholics of all ages, beginning in July, 2024.
As a leader in your diocese, we ask you to join with your colleagues to make these resources broadly available in every parish. Below you will find the following World Marriage Day Parish Resources.
Invoking the intercession of St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, we pray for all whose life stories include adoption. Each day includes short Scriptural passages and prayers and focuses on a different group of people who are involved in the adoption process.Participants can download the novena or sign up to receive the daily prayers via email or text message.Resources are available to promote and share the novena in your parish, school, or ministry.
Life-Giving Wounds Retreat for Adult Children of Divorce
A Retreat For Adult Children of Divorced/Separated Parents organized by the Archidiocese of San Framcisco Dealing with our parents' divorce is not easy but confronting this wound with faith can allow us to find great healing. We hope that you will become part of our supportive community and receive the many graces available through this ministry.
Sanctuary Mental Health Ministries equips the Church to support mental health and wellbeing.There are a few resources that exist outside of our resource portal: Sanctuary Songs,The Sanctuary Podcast, and Race, Mental Health, and Faith Resources
These resources are to empower anti-human trafficking advocates to "hit the ground running." Each section includes training videos and interviews with experts.
Standing up for your pro-life views can be intimidating or even downright scary. You may feel like you don’t know enough about the topic to discuss it in detail.We don’t want you to feel ill-equipped or frightened to be a voice for the preborn. These are some resources that will help you through the issues surrounding abortion and how you can express your pro-life views in winsome ways.
Red Bird Ministries is a Catholic, pro-life/pro-family grief support ministry that focuses on bereaved families who have experienced child loss of any age and circumstance, including pregnancy loss through miscarriage and stillbirth, and after birth as an infant, child, adolescent, or adult. While they operate as Catholics their ministry serves anyone who has experienced the loss of a child.