Please review the resources and tools below for building and strengthening your domestic church, from resource compendiums like Growing Up Catholic and ForYourMarriage, to lay ecclesial movements that serve to evangelize and build community among families.
Cath Family
This website offers a resource library to raise children in the faith, building the home as the living heart of the church. The site offers home activities, a blog and information keyed to the different seasons.
Christian Family Movement
This is a parish-based national network that strengthens families and builds a parish into a family of families. Individuals, couples and extended families grow in discipleship through learning to live the methodology of “see,” “judge” and “act.”
For Your Marriage
This website provides a wonderful variety of content to guide and support your family at all stages, including sections on “Dating and Engaged,” “Married Life” and “Family Life and Parenting.”
Growing up Catholic
This site offers resources for parents to help them to better understand their faith, to weave it into their daily life, and share it with their child. Most of these resources are free, however some may be purchased.
Missionary Families of Christ
This private association of lay faithful focuses on renewing the family and defending life, as well as participating in the work of building the Church of the poor. It’s active in the Diocese of San Diego.
Teaching Catholic Kids
This website offers ways for parents to practice the “Corporal Works of Mommy and Daddy” to experience and encourage a more meaningful spirit of service in the home. The content is geared to the seasons of the Church.
Family Fully Alive
Presented by the Knights of Columbus, this website offers guide sheets, posters, prayer cards and suggested activities for each season to help families place God and the Catholic faith at the center of their lives.
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
This national organization presents a list of practical suggestions families can adopt to build their domestic church. It also offers links to other sites that offer ways families can strengthen their faith life at home.
Couples for Christ (CFC) Family Ministries
Couples for Christ (CFC) established its family ministries to provide a “womb-to-tomb” renewal ministry, where persons are evangelized at the youngest age and sustained as they grow through the different stages and states of life. The family ministries provide a support environment for every member of the family. A person moves from one ministry to the next, as his state of life changes. Thus, the whole life of a person while on this world is covered. CFC is active in the Diocese of San Diego.
Trinity House Community is a ministry devoted to helping families build their domestic churches at home, their “Trinity Houses”. Many resources are available, including free Heaven In Your Home workshops.
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