Silver and Golden Wedding Anniversary Celebrations Liturgy & Brunch
This event is scheduled each year to honor couples celebrating 25, 50, and more years of married life. One Sunday morning in the fall of each year, the Bishop invites couples to Mass and brunch to celebrate their many years of married life, and to say "thank you" for their gift of steadfast love and commitment - a sure sign of God's love for us all.
This year's Wedding Anniversary Celebration will take place on Sunday, October 10, 2010. Mass will begin at 12:30 PM at St. John the Beloved parish in Wilmington, DE, with a reception to follow. The reception is free of charge. Registration is required. You may send the following information to the Office for Family Life, 1626 N. Union Street, Wilmington, DE 19806.
Husband?s Name, Wife?s Name
Street Address
City, State, Zip Code
Email Address
Phone Number
Number of years married
Parish
Will you be attending the reception? Yes/No
Natural Family Planning (NFP)
Natural Family Planning is a method for married couples to plan their families using day-to-day observation of the naturally occurring signs and symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of a woman's menstrual cycle. NFP methods take advantage of the changes associated with ovulation, treating each cycle as unique.
A woman needs not have "regular" cycles to use NFP. Natural Family Planning helps couples understand their combined fertility and enables them to make sound and effective decisions about conceiving a child or spacing their children.
Couples using NFP to avoid pregnancy abstain from intercourse during the fertile phase of a woman's cycle. Couples who wish to become pregnant take advantage of the fertile time.
To arrange for NFP classes, contact the Office for Family Life at 302-295-0657.
Newly Wed Newsletter
This newsletter has been prepared to assist couples in the first year of married life. Newly married couples can request to receive it for the first twelve months of their married lives by mail or electronically.
Human Sexuality Program
Let's Talk is a 2 1/2 hour human sexuality program integrating Catholic moral values for 11-12 year old pre-teens and their parents. It focuses on prenatal development, puberty, and parent/child communication. Some time is spent with parents on "special topics," including pornography and the Internet, while the pre-teens tour the infant nursery at St. Francis Hospital.Programs are run in the spring and in the fall.
Let's Keep Talking is a 2 1/2 hour human sexuality program integrating Catholic moral values for 13-14 year old teens and their parents. It focuses on chaste relationships and on learning assertive skills so that decisions about sexual behavior are not made because of peer pressure, but based on personal conviction.
Contact the Office for Family Life at 302-295-0657 for more information about any of our programs.
