Celebrate and reverence God's vision of human sexuality

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• Pursue a lasting love ...

  MARRIAGE
  Create hope for the future!

• - Organize a weekday afternoon lunch program for grandparents where you can give them the tools they need to speak with their grandchildren about the virtue of chastity, the vocation of marriage, and the morality of NFP methods. Feel free to invite elderly aunts and uncles as well!
   
• - Partner with the diocesan or parish youth director to explore how you can create an inter-generational event where grandparents and the elderly can share their wisdom about courting, marriage, and family with youth. Be sure to include a means for youth to speak about their hopes for their future and what challenges face them as they date and wonder about the possibility of marriage in their lives.
   
• - Offer prayer events and special Masses where grandparents and the elderly can come together to pray for their families, and especially for their adult children, family members, or friends who are struggling with infertility. NB: On this note, consider hosting a speaker who can provide current information about adoption and foster care.
   
• - Don't have grandparents in your family? Encourage parents to "spiritually adopt" an elderly family member or friend to act as a grandparent to the children in the family!
   
• - Plan a “gratitude” celebration for married couples, their children, and their parents to praise the Lord God for the blessings of family.
   

Contact Socorro to share creative programming ideas that you have offered in your parish. We are happy to post that information!