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Family Day is a national movement that encourages parents to frequently eat dinner with their kids and be involved in their children's lives. Research finds that the more often kids eat dinner with their families, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs. Family Day helps us remember to take time together, to thank God for the good gifts he provides for us. Through the reflective prayers said during grace plus the array of favorite meals served, you can continually feed your child's mind, body and soul.Celebrate Family Day on September 22, 2008 with families across the country by setting aside time to eat together as a family.
WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES Pope Benedict XVI announced the 6th World Meeting of Families will take place from January 16-18, 2009 in Mexico City. The theme is “The Family: Educator in Human and Christian Values.” This meeting, which has usually include a theological/pastoral congress, cultural celebrations, an evening prayer service and closing Mass with the Holy Father, is organized by the Pontifical Council for the Family. Interested in making a pilgrimage to Mexico? Download the brochure here! Plan a trip with us by calling 651-291-4553. 
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Poll: Americans Like the Pope 70% Want to Hear Him Speak on God in Daily Life Cardinal Alphonso Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family passed away April 19. To read more about his life, click here. Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, Archbishop of Florence, has been appointed to as the new president. According to Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro of the Rome Office of Human Life International:
"Cardinal Ennio Antonelli...has published several remarkable pastoral letters on the family. On the one that he wrote last year on family and society, he spoke in very realistic terms of the many problems that affect the family in our days in Italy. He denounced well how the individualistic mentality erodes the family and how that affects the education of children. He expressed in the strongest possible way, the tragedy of the demographic winter, that is freezing Italian society when he stated: 'It is not difficult to become aware that without births a nation dies and how without education a nation becomes decadent.' We should point out that due to the current globalization of society, the same problems that he denounced in Italy can be experienced in so many other countries of the world."
Prayer for
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Click here to read Pope Benedict XVI's address:
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Are you discerning marriage? Are you engaged? Are you married?
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