What is Domestic Church?

Domestic Church is the family branch of the Light-Life Movement, founded in Poland by Servant of God, Fr. Franciszeck Blachnicki with the guidance, support, and influence of his bishop, Karol Wojtyla (Saint Pope John Paul II).

In 2013, its members celebrated the 40 year anniversary of Domestic Church, which now has over 13,000 couple in Poland, and thousands more throught the world taking advantage of the great gift of "conjugal spirituality."

In 1973, Fr. Blachnicki combined the formation of his Light-Life Movement, originally for the youth of Poland, created to provide them with a foundation in their Catholic faith amidst the Communist threat, with the structure of Teams of Our Lady, a movement for married couple founded in France (Equip de Notre Dame), and the recently written Church document on the Catechesis of Adults (Ordo Initiationes Christianae Adultorum - RCIA) to provide the timeline and the elements necessary for married couples to truly come to grow in their knowledge and experience of Christ and His Church.

In December 2011, the leaders of Domestic Church in Poland graciously agreed to begin translating the formation materials into English and sent a couple and a priest from Poland to Lake Charles, Louisiana for an Evangelization Retreat to start the first English-speaking community in the world. There were 13 couples who began formation from that retreat, and the community in the United States has since grown to more than 250 couples. There are now couples in 12 dioceses who have attended a retreat and begun formation. There are many other couples and dioceses who plan to take advantage of this simple, beautiful gift of formation, accountability, and true, organic growth in love and faith within their Sacrament!