Please join us for an evening where will discuss ways to cope with your grief and loss during the holiday season. Thursday, November 7, at 7p.m., at St Elizabeth Seton, 4001 Stoneridge Drive, Pleasanton.
World Mental Health Day is Oct. 10. Learn more about how the Catholic Church and Catholics are comforting the afflicted, including those impacted by mental health issues.
Click through the link to access bilingual (English/Spanish) parish resources (bulletins, flocknotes, Mass intentions, etc.) for the California Catholic Conference's Radiate Love campaign. Let's promote marriage and authentic family life together!
The Bishops of California have been working with the California Catholic Conference staff and our own diocesan staff to launch RADIATE LOVE, an initiative to promote marriage and family life to support our people and curb the divorce and plummeting birth rates in California. It will begin July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025, and include a summit to see how clergy and marriage and family life ministry leaders can further this initiative. Details and resources through the link.
On March 26, 2024 the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that has the potential to make a major impact in the widespread accessibility of chemical abortion (abortion pills). Chemical abortions are now the most common form of abortion in the United States. Details through the link.
The death of a loved one is unlike any other loss. Although there is no right or wrong path, these are stepping stones that are part of each grief journey, and we will explore them in this eight-week series workshop. Details through the link.
The observances of National Marriage Week (Feb. 7-14) and World Marriage Day (Sunday, Feb. 11) are an opportunity to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family. Check out our resources through the link.
Teen STAR is a sexuality and affectivity educational program that accompanies children, adolescents, and young adults, appropriate to their physical and psychosocial stages of development. Teen STAR addresses all aspects of the human person. Teen STAR Instructor Training Sessions are aimed at adults who want to learn to talk about sexuality with their children, high school students, or members of youth and young adult groups. In-person training in Archdiocese of SF in the spring of 2024. Contact Ed Hopfner/[email protected]. More information through the link.
Join us at Church of the Good Shepherd. Come and learn more about Teams of Our Lady, an international lay association that enriches the lives of Catholic couples through growth in love and holiness. Register and more information through the link.
The death of a loved one is unlike any other loss. Although there is no right or wrong path, these are stepping stones that are part of each grief journey, and we will explore them in this eight-week series of workshops. This will be held at St. Elizabeth Seton Church, 4001 Stoneridge Drive, Pleasanton on Thursday evenings at 7pm beginning April 13 ending June 1. Additional details through the link.
The observances of National Marriage Week (Feb. 7-14) and World Marriage Day (Sunday, Feb. 12) are an opportunity to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family. This year's theme, "Marriage...one flesh, given and received" highlights the one-flesh union of husband and wife that is willed by God. Resources available through the link.
The Office of Marriage and Family Life shares its 2023 Marriage Preparation course dates for first time marriages, convalidation/remarriage, and Platicas (en Español). Registration for 2023 courses will open soon.
Share the events of Celebrate Catholic Family Life with the whole family. Download the Family Participation Passport & attend an event in each category. Submit your Family Passport for the closing drawing on October 7, 2022 (submit by Oct. 5) for an opportunity to win fun prizes. Submission details and passports in English and Spanish through the link.
Discover the possibilities of a marriage lived as God intends it. Read about upcoming 2022 dates for events in both English and Spanish through the link.
The Second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly is July 24, 2022. Through the link you will find pastoral resources from the Dicastery for Laity Family and Life.
The California Catholic Conference of Bishops profoundly welcomes the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobb’s v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which has affirmed our dearly held belief that life is precious, valuable, and should be protected, and that states have a compelling interest to protect the unborn and limit abortion. This has been our prayer, the Church’s prayer, for the last 50 years. Full statement through the link.
The California bishops have proposed a different vision for California – one where women, children, and families are welcomed, supported, and accompanied by the Catholic community. Recording of our webinar conversation available through the link.
La filtración del borrador del dictamen de la Corte Suprema en el caso Dobbs provocó que el gobernador y los líderes legislativos de California anunciaran su intención de crear una enmienda constitucional en California para proteger el derecho al aborto. Esto destruirá vidas, familias y limitará significativamente la capacidad de la Iglesia Católica en California para proteger a los no nacidos. Este es el momento para que la Iglesia y sus 12 millones de católicos intervengan en sus comunidades, se opongan activa y públicamente a esta enmienda y cumplan con nuestra responsabilidad bautismal de proteger la vida en cada etapa y en cada oportunidad.