The Office for Family Life fosters a family perspective in Church and society that promotes ministry to, with, by, and for families in all stages. The Office supports marriage formation and pastoral care to advance the missionary discipleship of the Domestic Church in the Diocese of Orange.
California bishops’ initiative on marriage & family launches July 28!
“Radiate Love” is a statewide initiative of the California bishops to invite every Catholic to celebrate the beauty and goodness of marriage and the family. Each month from July 2024 to June 2025, the CCC will provide catechetical and liturgical resources around a different theme to help renew and deepen our Catholic faithful’s understanding and experience of sacramental marriage and the family.
Materials for the Radiate Love Initiative launch on July 28 are now available on the website of the California Catholic Conference (CCC) or RadiateLove.info.
The Diocese of Orange Office for Family Life is thrilled to offer our parishes and deaneries additional resources and opportunities in line with the Radiate Love Initiative using grant funds from the Catholic Marriage Initiative. This includes printed Radiate Love prayer cards in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Korean at no cost to the parish. Please order by July 11 at https://forms.office.com/r/csdz43bt9n
Stay tuned for more announcements on upcoming Radiate Love events!
In English and Spanish on August 17
El entrenamiento está disponible en inglés y en español.
Saturday, August 17, 2024 – 8:30 am to 3 pm
Diocese of Orange Pastoral Center
13280 Chapman Ave, Garden Grove, CA 92840
Cost is $75 per facilitator or facilitator couple (couples share) for the materials pack/manual.
Pre-registration is required. Please register by July 31.
You must attend the full training to be certified.
Questions? Contact Linda Ji in the Office for Family Life at [email protected].
Did you know?
The Diocese of Orange has a chapter of Courage International, which supports our brothers and sisters with same sex attraction. Our chapter meets monthly for spiritual guidance and fellowship. For more information, www.couragerc.org
We also have a chapter of EnCourage: Standing fully by the teaching of the Church, we are a group of faithful Catholic parents/relatives/friends who support one another and our loved ones with Same Sex Attraction (SSA) or gender dysphoria, through discussion, prayer, fellowship and sacrifice. We meet monthly in the Diocese of Orange with our chaplain in a safe, confidential setting. For more info, contact us at: [email protected]
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Getting married?
Marriage formation for engaged couples
The sacrament of marriage is not a social convention, an empty ritual or merely the outward sign of a commitment. The sacrament is a gift given for the sanctification and salvation of the spouses, since “their mutual belonging is a real representation, through the sacramental sign, of the same relationship between Christ and the Church. The married couple are therefore a permanent reminder for the Church of what took place on the cross; they are for one another and for their children witnesses of the salvation in which they share through the sacrament.”
Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia n. 72