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.
2nd Annual Suicide Remembrance Mass
Saturday, September 16 at 10am
St. John Neumann Parish, Irvine
All who have lost a loved one to suicide are invited to this special Mass.
El sábado 4 de Noviembre del 2023
St. Mary’s Fullerton
Ofrecemos un retiro espiritual de un día para padres que han sufrido la muerte de un hijo de cualquier edad, por cualquier causa, sin importar cuánto tiempo ha pasado. Perder un hijo en cualquier circunstancia es muy difícil. El enfoque en la espiritualidad del proceso de duelo puede ayudar enormemente. Del mismo modo que consoló a sus discípulos afligidos en el camino a Emaús, Jesús nos consuela y nos consolamos mutuamente en este Ministerio muy especial. Únase a otros padres en duelo y nuestro Equipo de Retiros en un lugar cálido y acogedor para pensar, hablar, sentir y rezar.
Se requiere que se inscriba antes del retiro.
Renewing marriage formation toward a catechumenal model
The Diocese of Orange is a CMI Fund grant recipient!
We are thrilled to be approved for a grant from the Catholic Marriage Initiatives Fund in support of our implementation of key aspects of the USCCB pastoral framework on marriage and family ministry Called to the Joy of Love.
The projects proposed in our grant application primarily focus on strengthening marriage formation in our Diocese with particular attention to the guidelines delineated in Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life by the Vatican Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life in 2022.
Over the next 4 years, we will work on the following ministry areas from the USCCB pastoral framework:
- Preparing Young Adults for Marriage: Proximate Marriage Preparation
- Preparing Engaged Couples for Marriage: Immediate Marriage Preparation
- Accompanying Married Couples in the First Few Years
- Ongoing Marriage Enrichment
- Accompanying Couples who are Separated or Divorced
Parishes interested in partnering with us to implement the catechumenate model of marriage preparation should complete and submit our online inquiry form.
For more information, contact us at [email protected].
Support Changes Everything
Pregnant? Need Help?
Local help is available: pregnancy clinics and centers, shelters and food distribution, mental health support, and resources for maternal and perinatal health.
Hope and Healing After Abortion
The Church understands and cares
Hope and Healing After Abortion is a sensitive, private, confidential experience of accompaniment. Our volunteers aim to provide a caring, compassionate, and non-judgmental presence for anyone who is suffering from the affects of abortion and who is seeking reconciliation with God and their faith community.
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
Marriage
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Formation
Pastoral
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