Family Life
Events and Information
This area provides links to information and ideas for participating and developing this year’s theme.
Thank you for visiting, we hope you find our website useful. Please let us have your feedback, either by using the message board or by emailing us at family@vocations.org.uk.
We look forward to hearing from you, and wish you and your families every blessing in the year ahead.
Bishop’s Conference Department for Family Life
Area of the National Marriage and Family Life Project Office for the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
This office coordinates the three year project throughout the country.
The Bethany Family Institute
Information and resources for parish family ministry and training opportunities for those who would like to get more involved.
Churches and Families
An ecumenical (Churches Together) site with lot’s of practical and simple ideas for celebrating the family.
Documentation
“Not easy but full of meaning”
The report compiled from the responses to “Listening 2004: My Family, My Church”
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Pastoral Letter of the Archbishop of Birmingham, The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols on the family and the Church.
Resources and Events
The following resources have been highlighted by Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Coordinators as useful means of supporting the three year programme.
The Ministry of Welcome is a four or five session training resource for parishes. It aims to enable all parish groups to understand why welcoming visitors and strangers matters, that all parishioners need an ongoing welcome and to prompt parishes to improve their own welcome policies. It’s especially useful as a starting point - the first step for parishes on the way to becoming more welcoming, friendly and family-sensitive.
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Everybody's Welcome? Helping Your Parish to Become More Friendly for Families of All Kinds is a simple package to help parishes explore new ways to be more family friendly. Being family friendly isn't just about providing a programme for the children. It's also about meeting the needs of an elderly spinster caring for a relative at home. It's about filling a gap in your local community. It's about making sure everyone is safe, secure and comfortable in your church. It's about listening to what everyone has to say. It's about sharing a fresh vision for your church.
Whether you're a cathedral or a tiny chapel, in the inner city or the depths of the countryside, you can adapt this material to your needs.
It's especially useful for parishes who are already satisfied with their ministry of welcome and want to look deeper into the issues of becoming more family sensitive.
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Articles on Passing the Faith on
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