The Office for Marriage and Family Life provides various formational, educational, supportive, social and spiritual enrichment programs and resources for individuals, couples and families.
*SAVE THE DATE*
Annual Wedding Anniversary Mass 2025 with Bishop Koenig
St. Margaret of Scotland
February 9. 2025
1:00 PM
*Registration is open, please click on the following link to register or call the Office for Marriage and Family Life – 302-295-0657!
Celebrate National Marriage Week 2025 – The observances of National Marriage Week (Feb. 7-14) and World Marriage Day (February 9) are an opportunity to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family.
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Marriage Moments for December
Dec. 2: Advent is a season of waiting, but…it may be hard to ponder waiting when there is so much preparation to do for Christmas. Perhaps wait patiently today for your beloved to return from work or complete a job.
Dec. 9: What puts passion into your marriage? For newlyweds this may come easily. For others perhaps it’s been awhile. Often rekindling romance is a matter of doing something new together. Be creative before the year ends.
Dec. 16: What makes a marriage happy is often not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. How are you and your beloved most different?
Dec. 23: With Christmas around the corner, you may be busy and tired. Pause for a moment to remember what’s most important about Christmas – Christ, the manifestation of love, becoming present to us in human form and in each other.
Dec. 30: As one year ends and another begins, it’s natural to review and plan. Share your favorite marital moment of 2024. What’s one hope you have to enhance your love in 2025?
Parenting Pointers for December
Dec. 6: On Dec. 6, St. Nick’s day, children may get a small treat like candy in their shoe. But what about adding a note of appreciation; recognizing one of their talents.
Dec.13: Politics has put a lot of stress on the USA this year. Seek out someone you may have different political views with. Listen first. You don’t have to agree, but at least try to understand. Perhaps your child will notice your careful listening.
Dec. 20: In this season of “Peace” continue your peacemaking by making an effort to resolve a conflict you have with a family member, a neighbor, or a person with a different political view from yours. Who ____? Try it.
Dec. 27: Christmas gifts may be opened and enjoyed, but there’s probably a lot of cleaning up to do. To be fully part of the family, include your children in the cleaning up too.
Painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Prayer for Families
God, Our Father, loving and merciful, bring together and keep all families in perfect unity of love and mutual support. Instill in each member the spirit of understanding and affection for each other. Keep quarrels and bitterness far from them, and for their occasional failures instill forgiveness and peace. May the mutual love and affection of parents set a good example. Instill in children self-respect that they may respect others and grow in mature independence. May the mutual affection and respect of families be a sign of Christian, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.