National Family & Life Week: May 11-18
Event Date: May 18, 2025
Dioceses and parishes across Canada are celebrating National Family and Life Week (NFLW) from May 11 to May 18th. The theme for this year is “Abound in hope!” – a powerful message from St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans. As we journey together as “Pilgrims of Hope” in this Jubilee Year, let us reflect on the gift of hope God gives us through our families.
Below you will find a variety of tools to be used at home, in schools and/or parishes that seeks to emphasize the joy and beauty of family and life with daily activities to help you engage more fully in the week. Family and life are intricately linked; it is in the family we first come to know love and where we learn how to love – love is what gives hope. This is a week to celebrate, to remember your own family members and others and to focus, not just during this week, but all year round, on the importance and power of family in each person’s life.
For questions or more information, contact the Family Ministry Office.
Prayer for National Family and Life Week 2025
Heavenly Father,
we place our trust in you.
You have given us the precious gift of life
and entrusted us to care for, nurture, and sustain it.
Help our families to be sanctuaries of joy and light,
where both young and old are cherished and embraced,
and where your gifts of faith, hope, and love may flourish.
May your tender loving care inspire all families to abound in hope
so that we may live out our call to holiness
as missionary disciples in the service of life and peace.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.