Valuing marriage
To help couples understand and live marriage as a vocation, sacrament, commitment and path to holiness.
Católicos em Ennis Community
Couples
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Pastoral Care of Couples
Families Steadfast in the Faith and in love
The Pastoral Care of Couples accompanies, welcomes and strengthens couples and families, helping them to live love, dialogue, faith, prayer and mission within of married and community life.
A pastoral care to strengthen marriage and the family
The Pastoral Care of Couples is a space of welcome, sharing, formation and spirituality For couples who wish to live their vocation to marriage with more faith, union, responsibility and love.
In a Brazilian community in Ireland, many couples and families live far away of relatives, friends and references from Brazil. Therefore, walking in community It helps to strengthen family ties, faith, and Christian commitment.
Marriage is a vocation of love. When the couple walks with God, The family becomes a sign of faith, hope, forgiveness and communion.
Pastoral Mission
Accompanying couples on the Christian walk
The Pastoral Care of Couples helps couples to grow in faith, in dialogue, in the life of prayer, in the education of children and in active participation in the community.
Strengthening Love
Promote moments of reflection, dialogue and coexistence that help the couple to renew love, respect and unity.
Praying as a family
Encourage the prayer of the couple and the family, helping the home to be a space of faith, blessing, forgiveness and God's presence.
Welcoming families
Create a welcoming environment for Brazilian families living in Ireland, strengthening friendship, support, and community life.
Offer training
To promote themes on married life, spirituality, children's education, communication, forgiveness, faith and family mission.
Walking in community
Helping couples to participate in the life of the Church, putting their gifts at the service of the community and evangelization.
Who can participate?
- 1Married couples who want to strengthen their married and spiritual life.
- 2Engaged couples who are preparing for the sacrament of matrimony.
- 3Families who wish to walk closer to the community and the Church.
- 4Couples who want to participate in meetings, formations, moments of prayer and coexistence.
- 5People called to serve other couples with welcome, listening, witness, and fraternity.
Couple walking together grows together
Life as a couple requires dialogue, patience, forgiveness, listening, prayer and commitment. The Pastoral of Couples wants to help each couple to take care of their relationship in the light of faith and Christian love.
When the couple is strengthened, the whole family is strengthened. And when the family draws closer to God, the whole community grows in faith, unity and hope.
Spirituality of the couple
The Christian couple is called to live love as a sign of God's presence. In prayer, dialogue, forgiveness, and daily care, husband and wife learn to love with more maturity, fidelity and surrender, making the home a small domestic church.
Family life
The home is also a place of evangelization
The Pastoral of Couples recalls that the family is one of the first places where faith it is transmitted, lived and witnessed through love, example and prayer.
Important attitudes
- ✓Cultivate dialogue, listening, and respect within the relationship.
- ✓Praying together is putting God at the center of family life.
- ✓Participate in Holy Mass and in the life of the community.
- ✓Seek formation to grow in love, faith and family mission.
- ✓To serve other couples with witness, welcome and fraternity.
Brazilian families in Ireland
Living in another country brings challenges to the family: adaptation, work, children's education, distance from relatives, homesickness and new responsibilities.
For this reason, the Pastoral of Couples wants to be a space of support and friendship, where couples and families can feel welcomed, strengthened and accompanied in his walk.
Love lived with God becomes mission
The Pastoral Care of Couples of the Católicos em Ennis Community exists to strengthen couples and families, helping them to live marriage, faith and the family mission with love, hope, unity and Christian commitment.