On March 19, 2021, the Church celebrated the 5th anniversary of the publication of Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, on the beauty and joy of love in the family. On that same day, Pope Francis launched the year “Amoris Laetitia Family,” which concluded on June 26, 2022, during the X Meeting of Families in Rome with the Holy Father.
10-part video series going over the main teachings of Amoris Laetitia
Pope Francis announced the year of “Amoris Laetitia Family during his Angelus Message on the Feast of the Holy Family on December 27, 2020. He ended his address by invoking the Blessed Mother, “May the Virgin Mary grant that families throughout the world be increasingly fascinated by the evangelical ideal of the Holy Family, so as to become a leaven of [a] new humanity and of a genuine and universal solidarity.”
Our diocese is concluding this celebration of the Year of the Family with Catholic Family Week, September 24-Oct 2. We are to continue to live out the spirit of Amoris Laetitia. Click here for a list of events around the diocese.