National Marriage Week 2025 takes place from 7-14 February and offers an opportunity for us to support and promote marriage and family life.
You may wish to pray a novena for national marriage week click here
Bishop Bosco MacDonald, lead bishop for marriage and family life has written a message for the week click here
A simple prayer of thanksgiving for the vocation to marriage:
Lord, we pray in thanksgiving for the vocation to marriage
and for each couple that you join together to make a family.
We ask that every marriage brings each couple closer to you and to holiness.
We pray for those who are struggling in their marriage,
that they can make it through this tough time
and find hope and consolation in You.
We pray that this Jubilee year can be a year of hope for marriages,
with your gentle guiding hand through each
action, decision, discussion and event.
We make this prayer through Christ, your Son, our Lord.
Amen.
