Welcome to Family Life Ministry, at the service of all people who want to grow together in love, love being 'the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being' Blessed John Paul II. For the newsletter
http://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/flm/docs/January 2012.pdf
Who is FLM for?
~COUPLES, PARENTS and GRANDPARENTS: relationship education, family spirituality.
~PARISHES: training of Marriage Preparation Presenters and Parenting Facilitators
~SCHOOLS: training of Parenting Facilitators
~VOCATIONS: Marriage and Family Life as a call to live love
~EVANGELISATION: Parents are the 'first heralds of the Gospel'
~JUSTICE and PEACE: Family Life as a place of witness
~HOME~SCHOOL~PARISH in all the above & collaboratively
‘What you do in your family life is very close to the heart of the Church and therefore to the heart of Christ’ (Bishop Arthur Roche)
Who to contact for
MARRIAGE PREPARATION: your parish priest.
FERTILITY/NFP: Dr Evleen Mann 07866235947 e.mann@dhfltd.com
PARENTING: check this site/your parish/school
FAMILY SPIRITUALITY: check this site/your parish/school
Family is 'a sacred and sanctifying place' (Pope Benedict XVI) but it is not always an easy or a safe place so for
URGENT HELP Call 999
Child/grandchild at risk? www.catholic-care.org.uk
Domestic Abuse? www.cedar.uk.net
Marriage in crisis? www.marriagecare.org.uk
Need a parish or priest? www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk
Online safety www.getsafeonline.org/nqcontent.cfm?a_name=beginners_1
FLM Leeds is a Member of FAMILIAS www.familias-ew.org.uk
The Association for Catholic Diocesan Marriage and Family Life Ministry within England and Wales