Saint George's Family Ministry provides a ministry of welcome, family resources, education, and support and helps to build a partnership between the church of the home - the domestic church - and the parish community.

Ruth Viens
Family MInistry Coordinator
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"The ordinary lives of ordinary families are filled with the extraordinary. The sacred is just around the corner. It is in family intimacy, first of all in our families and in our friendships, that God is present and active."

(Mitch and Kathy Finley)

Advent Sharing List

Remember My Birthday

About Advent

About Christmas

Advent Prayers

DIY Advent Calendar

Priceless Gifts to Give For Free

Praying Advent & Celebrating Christmas

Parents and Parenting

Reach Out and Touch Parents

Naming Grace
in the Domestic Church

A Family Perspective (USCCB)

Forty Ways to Foster Prayer
in Your Home

Strong Catholic Family Faith

Family Good, Sacred and Holy!!

The Beatitudes for Parents

Look for this year's Advent Prayer Boxes Sunday, November 25 on the Resource Table at the rear of the church hall. A four inch white flat box (needs to be assembled) with black and white graphics to color on each side with a prayer for each of the four weeks of Advent. The box is easily assembled, put a jingle bell inside available at many stores in many sizes and colors at this time of year. Put a sticky bow or other Christmas decoration on the top. Place the box somewhere in your home to remind you to read that week's Advent prayer each of the four weeks of Advent as we wait for the birth of the Christ child on Christmas day!! For any additional information or help with this contact Ruth Viens, Family Ministry Coordinator at ruthviens@charter.net.

A family pespective is an attempt to put into practice what Pope John Paul II wrote in his 1981 Apostolic Exhortation On the Family (Familiaris Consortio): "No plan for organized pastoral work at any level must ever fail to take into consideration the pastoral area of the family" (n.70). A family perspective is a way of "taking into consideration" the family in a very comprehensive way. To bring a family perspective to ministry does not necessarily mean adding new programs, personnel or structures. Rather it suggests that what exists is examined with a view toward making it more sensitive to the complex reality of family life and ultimately, toward placing families at the center of the Church's life and mission.

GRANDPARENT PRAYER GROUP, 
Third Friday of each month, 11:00 am in the Conference Room in the church hall, from September through May. Join us as we pray for the safety and well-being of our grandchildren and those of the parish. Prayers include those to Saint Ann and Saint Joachim, grandparents of Jesus, along with the Rosary. All are welcome. For more information send an email here. 

FAMILY PRAYER NIGHT every Thursday at 6:30 PM in the church.  We gather and pray for all families. We invite you to join us as we share the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Contact Sue Ovian (sueovian@yahoo.com / 508-735-8703) or Bill McSherra (508-831-0188) for more information. Though Family Prayer Night is not specifically part of St. George's Family Ministry everyone is welcome to join them in prayer each Thursday night.