Commission on Family Life (COF)

VISION – MISSION

The Family and Life apostolate is geared towards the total development of the Catholic family to become a domestic Church, sharing the church’s life and mission of preaching and living the good news of salvation.

OBJECTIVES

1.   To be able to rekindle the faith of the domestic church.
2.   To be able to empower families of their mission to become evangelizers towards the basic ecclesial communities.
3.   To be able to develop the knowledge and skills of the family life workers in reaching out to other families.

COF has 5 pastoral priorities:

Pre-Cana
Post-Cana
Migrant Program
Elderly
Parish Spiritual Companion (PSC_Counseling)

Pre-Baptismal Orientation is included as additional priority in the parish. Monthly meetings on above priorities are held every third Thursday at the Vicariate Level, and every fourth Sunday at the parish level.

Liturgy of the Hours (iBreviary)

THE JUBILEE PRAYER

Father in heaven,

May the faith you have given us in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom.

May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.

May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth, when, with the powers of Evil vanquished, your glory will shine eternally.

May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope, a yearning for the treasures of heaven.

May that same grace spread the joy and peace of our Redeemer throughout the earth.

To you, our God, eternally blessed, be glory and praise forever. Amen.

Source: The Catholic Link