This February 7-14, 2021, we will celebrate National Marriage Week! This annual observance is a great prompt for everyone to reflect on the gift marriage is to our Church and our country, as well as an opportunity for couples to build up their own marriages.

This year the theme is: To Have, To Hold, To Honor. Here’s how you can take part:

• Spend a little dedicated time in prayer and reflection by participating in the seven-day at-home retreat (available in pdf in English and Spanish) focused on marriage. 

• Share our National Marriage Week Flyer, available in English and Spanish.

• Change your Facebook Cover Photo or share one of the images from the Social Media Kit (also in Spanish at PorTuMatrimonio.org) 

• Encourage your parish to celebrate World Marriage Sunday (February 14, 2021), with a Preaching Resource (also available in Spanish) for clergy or by sharing the flyer.

• Invite your parish community to pray for marriage with these Prayers of the Faithful for National Marriage Week (also available in Spanish)

• Conversation on Fatherhood and Spousal Love – Tune in on the For Your Marriage’s Facebook page Wednesday, February 10, at 2:00 EDT for a live-streamed discussion between the associate director for Clergy, Consecrated Life, and Vocations, Fr. Daniel Hanley, and the director of Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, Mr. Dominic Lombardi as they discuss their reflections on fatherhood and spousal love looking to Saint Joseph as their example.

• Pray a rosary for married couples and families with us! The rosary will be led by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, the head of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, and live-streamed on Friday, February 12, at 3:00 PM EDT on the USCCB Facebook Page.

The Faith Formation Media Library contains a wide variety of DVDs, CDs, and study programs for use in parish marriage and family ministries.