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Office of Family
Life
George
Rigazzi, Director
Susan
Lepak, Associate Director
Lisa
Carrasco, Coordinator of Hispanic Family Ministry
Cristy
Welch, Programs Assistant
(405)
721-8944*7501 NW Expressway, Oklahoma City
Mailing address is
P.O. Box 23180, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73123
Programs Offered
Use the links below to find out more information on any of the
following programs:
Pre-Cana w Convalidación w Engagement
Encounter Weekend wFirst
Years and Forever
Parish
Sponsor Couple Training w Marriage
Encounter w To Seal & Strengthen Love
Parenting Class
w Stepping
Into Marriage with Children w Natural
Family Planning
Retrouvaille
w Divorced and Separated Support Groups
Beginning
Experience w Bereavement Ministry
w Rainbows
w Miscarriage Support Group
From
Grief to Grace wRachel's
Vineyard Retreats w Project Rachel w Project
Gabriel
Sacred Heart Apostolate w Teams
of Our Lady
JUNE
7 Oklahoma Catholic Family
Conference at Bishop McGuinness High School, with National Speakers; Teen &
Children's Programs; Catholic Vendors; Eucharistic Adoration and Mass
celebrated by Archbishop Eusebius Beltran.
Survey
of Medical Research Associations and Foundations
PRO-LIFE APOLOGETICS 101
Prolife Outreach Information
http://www.nccbuscc.org/
Pre-Cana
A day for couples preparing for the
Sacrament of Marriage. A specially prepared volunteer team of
married couples and a priest, share their experiences and information with
the intention of enabling engaged couples to be more aware of the
privileges and responsibilities of marriage.
Jan 12, 2008
March 15, 2008
June 21, 2008
Aug 23,
2008
Oct 1, 2008
Pre-Cana in Spanish
March
8, 2008
July 12, 2008
November 8, 2008
Convalidación
A Spanish-language marriage preparation program for couples
that are married civilly or thru common law and want to have their marriage
blessed by the Church. This program gives a couple an opportunity to learn how
to live their marriage as a sacrament in today’s society. The couples reflect
on various topics and the demands they face in marriage. The program helps them
to focus on how to foster a Christian family life.
January
19, 2008
May 10, 2008
Sept 13, 2008
Engagement Encounter
Weekend
The program for the weekend is
presented by a team of married couples and a priest. The team
couples share their own personal journey of marriage in relation to
selected topics. After each presentation, the engaged couples are
given questions that are related to the topic of the presentation.
The couples then share their responses with one another.
February 15-16, 2008
May 9-10, 2008
Nov 14-15, 2008
Resources
for Young Married Couples
You
can receive a monthly e-newsletter, from the Archdiocese of Chicago
office of family ministries, designed specially for young married
couples called First Years and Forever. The newsletter is
a available in English, Spanish and Polish. Check out a sample
newsletter or click here to Subscribe.
Parish Sponsor Couple
Training
The Office of Family Life offers sessions to benefit couples who will serve as mentors
to the engaged in their parish. Videos are also available.
Call the Office to make an appointment.
Training
will be held in the parish.
Marriage Encounter
Marriage Encounter is a process
designed to give you and your spouse a special opportunity to examine your
life together and your strengths and your limitations, your attitudes
toward each other and toward your family, your hurts and your fears, your
desires and ambitions, your disappointments and your joys, your successes
and frustrations.
World Wide
January
18-20, 2008
June 6-8, 2008
Oct 24-26,
2008
Marriage Encounter in Spanish
February
29-Mar 2, 2008
June 13-15, 2008
October 3-5, 2008
To Seal & Strengthen Love
A program based on Dr. Gary
Chapman’s Five Love Languages designed to help married couples
communicate more deeply and effectively.
Parenting Class
A training session will be offered to instruct the
participants on how to implement a program in their parish
Stepping Into Marriage with
Children
Too often we assume that second
marriages need little to no preparation, but 60% of second marriages end
in divorce. This seems to be due, in part, to unanticipated problems
and miscommunications. The issues highlighted in this program
are: communication, Step-family structures, former spouses,
conflict, sexuality, and spirituality.
April 19, 2008
Nov 8, 2008
Natural Family Planning
Introductory /
Informational Sessions and courses on NFP are offered each month at the Office
of Family Life and throughout the Archdiocese. Learn more about “A Way of Life,
A Way of Love”, by calling (405) 721-8944 or email oknfp@yahoo.com for the schedule or to make
an appointment. NFP is 98/99 % effective in family planning for most couples
when taught by a qualified instructor. It is scientific and compatible with the
teaching of the Catholic Church. It is easy to learn. Classes are available in
the Ovulation Method, Marquette Model, and Sympto-Thermal methods. Choose the
method that is best for you.
Natural Family Planning in
Spanish
Given by Certified
Instructors, videos also available. Introductory Session held in Parish
Couple to Couple League Natural Family Planning
http://www.ccli.org/
Billings Natural Family Planning
www.usa-boma.org
Retrouvaille
Retrovaille is
for couples with troubled marriages including separated and divorced couples
that want to try again to make their marriage work. All names are kept in
strictest confidence. Retrouvaille begins with a weekend. Six Follow-up
sessions are required following the weekend.
Divorced and Separated Support Groups
This workshop is designed to help
new leaders, those wanting to become leaders and those who lead support groups
that need revitalizing. While some time the participants will enjoy personal
enrichment and spiritual renewal, this workshops main aim is to teach leaders
what it means to be a ministry leader for the divorced and separated. Through discussions, small group interaction and
activities the participants will first learn the grieving process, then how to
start a support group, and many other projects.
Beginning Experience
This is a ministry to help cope with
the traumatic experiences of losing a loved one through separation,
divorce, or death. Beginning Experience is carried out by a trained
team of volunteers done at special weekend gatherings which encourage
participants to share their need and deal with the natural process of
grief and loneliness.
Feb 28-Mar 2, 2008
July 18-20, 2008
Oct 17-19, 2008
Bereavement Ministry
This
year's Bereavement Ministry training will be offered by The Samaritan
Ministry. This all-day workshop will focus on providing organized,
caring ministry for the sick, the homebound, and their caregivers,
along with the families both at the time of death and for the bereaved.
Practical elements of the training will include how to start-up
this ministry within a parish, how it can compliment and work with
other parish ministries (especially Stephen Ministry and those who
are hospice volunteers), and how to recruit and train volunteers.
Samaritan Ministry training: February 9, 2008
Rainbows
A weekly support group program for
children, adolescents, and adults who are grieving a death, divorce, or
painful transition in their family
Miscarriage Support Group
This program is for women and men. Based on
materials from Elizabeth Ministry, this 12-week support group meets on the last
Saturday of the month from 1-2:30 p.m. Registration required.
Grief to Grace
A
healng retreat for victims of sexual
abuse.
A new retreat created by Theresa and Kevin Burke of Rachel's Vineyard is
being offered by the Office of Family Life. "From Grief to Grace - Reclaiming
the Gift of Sexuality" is a spiritual journey for anyone who has suffered
degradation or violation through sexual abuse, rape, incest, or other forms of
traumatic violation in childhood, adolescence, or as an adult. This program was
created to end the isolation and secrets of abuse within a retreat process that
is fully centered upon the person and presence of Jesus Christ,. The Living
scriptures, together with journaling, group activities, and discussions offer a
very effective healing process grounded in Jesus Christ, the Word of God, and
the Eucharist. It is a pilgrimage to discover the love, tenderness, belonging,
safety, joy, and peace that are often missing from the stories of abuse
victims.
June 19-22, 2008
August 14-17, 2008
Rachel's Vineyard Retreats for
Healing after Abortion
Experience the
healing love of Jesus Christ on a Rachel’s Vineyard weekend retreat. The
retreat offers an opportunity to deeply enter into the grieving process and
identify the ways your abortion may have affected you. Discussions, spiritual
exercises, prayer and reflection are combined with the Sacrament of
Reconciliation, a Memorial Service honoring your child and a Mass of
Resurrection. Participation is strictly confidential and offers a beautiful
opportunity to experience God’s love, forgiveness and tender compassion.
Both men and women are invited to experience this
therapy for the soul. The program is an apostolate of the Catholic Church, but
those from other faith backgrounds are welcome to attend. Pre registration is
required. Cost is $75 for materials, lodging and meals. Financial assistance is
available. Space is limited.
Weekend retreat
July 11-13, 2008
October 31-Nov.2, 2008
Project Rachel is Available
With one to one meetings with a lay minister, priest and /
or licensed counselor, work through the spiritual, emotional and psychological.
After effects of abortion.
Rachel Support Group
This support group meets prior to attending a Rachel’s
Vineyard Retreat.
Rachel Aftercare
Group meetings for those who have already attended a
Rachel’s’ Vineyard Retreat or Project Rachel.
http://www.rachelsvineyard.org/
Project Gabriel
Help Moms choose life! PROJECT GABRIEL is an apostolate of the Catholic Church that reaches
out to Moms experiencing a crisis pregnancy. It is a mentoring program that
offers support through prayer, friendship and referrals for medical and
material needs. Project Gabriel is a grass roots, hands-on approach, an
opportunity to make the corporal and spiritual works of mercy come to life.
Please consider becoming a Gabriel Angel or a member of the Gabriel Auxiliary.
Trainings are held at the Catholic Pastoral Center. Project Gabriel is:
Pastoral: the
church responding by meeting a mother's needs that range from spiritual to
material;
Educational: the church proclaiming the value
and dignity of all life, especially unborn life, through the witness and
actions of its members;
Evangelical: the church loving
and caring for those possibly outside the faith community so that they may
be brought to Christ.
Sacred Heart Apostolate
This one hundred year old
apostolate is geared toward the fostering of putting Christ at the center of
the family and prayer as a family. Mass for the Sacred Heart
Apostolate is the First Friday of every month at 7 p.m., beginning with
Adoration and confessions and 5:30 pm., in the Chapel at the Catholic Pastoral
Center.
Teams
of Our Lady
An international movement
of married couples that seeks growth in the spiritual life of the couple and
the family through a program of prayer and study. Growth on communication is
another goal by developing intimacy by way of shared prayer and regular in
depth talks.
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