Office of Marriage and Family Life

• Diocesan-Wide Calendar of Events

• Life Issues (Beginning and End)

• Links(Includes Anti-Pornography Resources)

• List of Louisiana Spiritual Directors

• foryourmarriage.org

• The Catholic Current

The Office of Marriage and Family Life assists the Bishop by conducting programs and activities which strengthen marriage and the family. The office provides education and advocacy on issues related to the sanctity of marriage and family life.

 

**Due to weather, Marriage Anniversary Mass has been postponed from February 14, 2021 to April 25, 2021**

Is the theme for 2021 National Marriage Week held February 7-14th. 
(Please click each title below for more infomration)
Prayer for Married Couples
At Home Marriage Retreat
Visit our Marriage Ministry Page for additonal virtual retreats and marriage support
 

The weekend of February 20-21, the Diocese of Lafayette will celebrate its third year of Safe Haven Weekend. This weekend is to raise awareness of the negative impacts of pornography on individuals, marriages, and families. During the first weekend of Lent, priests will preach on the harms of pornography and the healing aspect of those addicted to pornography in an appropriate way. They will also inform the congregation on how to safe guard our children from online exposure. Resources to support individuals, marriages, and families will be made available to help make each home a “Safe Haven”. Resources can be found on our Safe Haven webiste. 

Prepare/Enrich Online Assessment (Registration and Information) - a tool utilized by trained facilitator's to determine a couple's strengths and areas of growth in their relationship. 

Marriage Preparation Programs

• Foundations (One-Day Class/Remarriage In Christ)

• Engaged Encounter (Weekend)

• In-home Marriage Prep (Please contact your church parish for details on this parish-based program.  NOTE:  This program may not be available in all church parishes.)

• Witness to Love (Please contact your church parish for details on this parish-based program.  NOTE:  This program may not be available in all church parishes.)

• Online Catholic Marriage Prep (click the logo below to register)

As an ordinary part of marriage preparation, Natural Family Planning classes are offered throughout the Diocese in different methods. To find out more about the methods and available classes, please visit our NFP page. For NFP to be effective, you should complete the class before your wedding date.

Please click here for more information on Marriage Ministry including resources to enrich your marriage as well as help heal marriages.

Have you or someone you know suffered the breakdown of a marriage and family?  Please click here for resources and information approved by the Office of Marriage and Family Life Ministry (including information on our divorce recovery program based on The Catholic's Divorce Survival Guide by Rose Sweet).

 Please click here for additional information. 

Please click on the items below for additional information on annual events sponsored by the Office of Marriage and Family Life Ministry:

• 2021 Diocesan Marriage Anniversary Mass - Postponed to April 25, 2021

• Mothers' Day of Reflection