Resources from the Archdiocese

At-Home Parent/Child Confirmation Retreat 

With the postponed celebration of the sacrament of Confirmation, you may want to keep students engaged in sacramental preparation with a family based retreat. This retreat can be sent to families in its entirety, or using specific lessons. Linked here is the resource in English and linked here in Spanish. This information was also shared with DREs earlier today.  Sara Blauvelt ( [email protected]) is happy to discuss potential ways to use this resource. 

 

Marriage Preparation Resources Update

In order to help couples with their preparation for the Sacrament of Marriage, the Office for Family Life is offering online marriage preparation sessions this May. Sessions consist of four two-hour sessions. 

Because the in-person classes previously scheduled (and full) were cancelled due to the stay at home directives, those couples were transitioned to the online classes and at this point the online English language courses are full. Please inform us if you know of a need for additional online English classes and we will schedule more sessions.

The Spanish language cohorts have availability and the class information is listed below:

Cohort 1

Session 1: Wednesday, May 6: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Session 2: Friday, May 8: 7:00pm-9:00pm        

Session 3: Wednesday, May 13: 7:00pm-9:00 pm

Session 4: Friday, May 15: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Cohort 2

Session 1: Wednesday, May 20: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Session 2: Friday, May 22: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Session 3: Wednesday, May 27: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Session 4: Friday, May 29: 7:00pm-9:00pm

For couples getting married in the Fall, we plan to offer in person sessions, if permitted. A full list of the ADW in-person sessions can be found here. We also recommend the multilingual online program linked here. For more information or questions, please visit visiblesign.org or contact Carla Ferrando-Bowling, Director, Office of Family Life, at [email protected] or at 301-853-4546.

 

Archdiocese Website

The archdiocesan website in response to the coronavirus is updated regularly with information, in English and Spanish, adw.org/coronavirus, which includes a link to find a listing of live stream Masses and prayers available at adw.org/live-streamed-masses-and-prayers/The Catholic Standard and the Spanish-language El Pregonero newspapers are currently available online at cathstan.org and elpreg.org.