Amoris Laetitia Family Year 2021-2022
The second of 10 videos to be released by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life is now available as part of journeying together as a Church during the year of Amoris Laetitia Family. This video focuses on how the family is the concrete reality by which we can experience God’s love. God is a communion of love between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the family is an image of that trinitarian love and makes it present in the world today. The video is accompanied by a print resource to be used as an aid to small group or family discussion.
Please find a link to additional video and print resource here:
The Vatican has also released an official prayer for the 10th World Meeting of Families scheduled for 22 to 26 June, 2022. The theme chosen for the gathering is “Family love: a vocation and a path to holiness”. Families and parishes are encouraged to pray the prayer as a way of entering the heart of the Amoris Laetitia Family Year and as a way of journeying spiritually with those preparing to gather for the event, particularly if they are not able to participate in person.
See below for the text of prayer.
Family Love: Vocation and Path to Holiness
Heavenly Father, We come before You to praise You and to thank You for the great gift of the family. We pray to You for all families consecrated by the Sacrament of Matrimony. May they rediscover each day the grace they have received and as small domestic Churches, may they know how to witness to Your presence and to the love with which Christ loves the Church. We pray to You for all families faced with difficulty and suffering caused by illness or circumstances of which only You know. Sustain them and make them aware of the path to holiness upon which You call them so that they might experience Your infinite mercy and find new ways to grow in love. We pray to You for children and young people: may they encounter You and respond joyfully to the vocation You have in mind for them; We pray for parents and grandparents: may they be aware that they are signs of the fatherhood and motherhood of God in caring for the children who, in body and spirit, You entrust to them; and for the experience of fraternity that the family can give to the world Lord, grant that each family might live their specific vocation to holiness in the Church as a call to become missionary disciples, in the service of life and peace, in communion with our priests, religious, and all vocations in the Church. Bless the World Meeting of Families. Amen!