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)

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

• How do your children speak about those who are different from them?
• Bring out old family photos and remember your special events.
• Feast of St. Blase on February 3. Pray for good health.
• God, open my eyes that I may see.
• Talk about ways to put your love into action.
• Make hearts and place them on all the mirrors in your home.
• Faith is strengthened when it is given to others.
• Encourage someone you know to stop smoking.
• VALENTINE'S DAY February 14th. Let the whole world know that God loves them!
• What is today's Gospel telling you?
• If you were invisible what would you do?
• If God has called you to a task, He'll equip you for it.

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.

 

One of the greatest gifts we can give our families is to stop
rushing down the fast lane and start doing what matters most.