Our Mission
Our Family and Life Office mission strives to help and support families in all their trials and difficulties to be come missionary disciples of Jesus Christ.
In the words of St John Paul II; “The Mission of being the primary vital cell of society has been given to the family by God himself. This mission will be accomplished in the family, by family prayer, the mutual affection, promoting active hospitality, justice and good works for the service of others, presents itself as a domestic sanctuary of the Church” because the first dwelling place for Jesus Christ was His family – The Holy Family – the Domestic Church. Because The Word became Flesh, in the womb of a woman and in the family by dwelling there.
Our Mission Statement
In the words of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (On the Christian Family);
“The family is the school of all social characteristics and virtues, on which the good of a whole people rests.”
Our Family and Life Office mission strives to help, support and accompany families in all their trials and difficulties because the good of the whole people rests on the good of the family.
Vision
Our vision is to form and strengthen families as domestic churches, where the life of Christ is lived daily, the beauty of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic tradition is embraced, and every household becomes a place of prayer, love, healing, and mission. – St John Chrysostom (Homily XX).
