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We are excited that Domestic Church has made its way to the Diocese of Rochester. Dave and Kate Dawson led the first evangelization retreat May 10-13,2018 at the Notre Dame Retreat Center in Canandaigua, New York. It was such a blessing to walk with these couples as the Lord strengthens their marriage and family. Please pray for them, as new circles are formed and getting started.

During the last weekend in January, Blaine and Denise Wyninger (Lake Charles coordinators) led an Evangelization Retreat in Southeast New York for 11 couples and one priest from that area and from Southwest Connecticut! It was an amazing group, and we are so excited that they are ready to receive all that God has in store for their marriages and families through Domestic Church!

After a retreat in October of 2017, Domestic Church is exploding in Oklahoma, especially thanks to the efforts of Alex and Sarah Schimpf! God provides! Check out this article in the Sooner Catholic!

Erin Franco continues to provide such great articles on the journey of faith, marriage, and family, in her Humble Handmaid blog, and she recently shared some of the very practical ways that she was able to win the battle of making time for daily individual prayer in this article. Thanks, again, Erin!

Thanks to Kathleen Naab, who's in one of the Domestic Church circles in Houston, Domestic Church has an article on Zenit.org, the well-known international Catholic news site! She did a phenomenal job presenting it--check it out.

Please take a few moments to read Erin Franco's blog post.

Our summer family retreat this year saw 37 families and two priests from Poland enjoying eight grace-filled days in beautiful St. Agustine, FL. The video is long, but if you're wondering about the in's and out's of how something like this works, there's plenty of details here to satiate your curiosity, and the images are beautiful!

Please take a moment to read Erin Franco's beautiful and moving testimony, "How Domestic Church Changed My Marriage," written on her fantastic, nationally recognized blog, Humble Handmaid.

It's easy to get excited when somebody talks about love as "self-gift." We all want to give ourselves, holding nothing back for the one we love. The desire to heroically lay our lives down for another is written into every cell in our bodies...

“I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with you.” (Psalm 32:8-9)

We wasted a lot of time worrying about this one. The drive up with all the kids, being in the mountains with all the kids, trying to truly take advantage of the incredibly beautiful Domestic Church Oasis retreat materials with all the kids, the long drive back with all the kids...

We are so grateful for a wonderful experience this past weekend with five couples from St. Theresa in Carlyss! They were willing to come all the way out to Beaumont to see what God had in store for their marriages, and He was faithful and His presence felt! We also h...

Monthly couple dialogue--what's the big deal? We dialogue all the time, how hard can this be? Is it even necessary? These were questions we had before we really stepped into our first scheduled dialogue night. Then, like everything else that's important to mar...

When we first started praying together as a family, it felt much more like an effort to nail Jell-o to the wall than any kind of communal spiritual experience. The kids were completely unable to sit still, and it being the end of the day (right before bedtime), our pa...

We've all heard that "the couple who prays together, stays together," and it sounds like such an easy fix to such a huge problem. You pray together with your spouse, you don't get divorced. Done deal. And, it's actually true. It's been studied that couples who pray tog...

We had the incredible gift of starting a retreat on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and she made her intercession felt from the get-go, leading 14 couples to choose to allow her Son to lead them on a new path toward holiness together through Domestic Church (for 9...

I was sitting in Adoration yesterday, having just read the next chapter in Revelation, the book I'm currently working through, and I realized that deep down, I've got this assumption that any digging for a deeper or more personal meaning would leave me disappointed. No...

David speaks with Timothy Putnam of the Diocese of Tulsa, and Dino Durando of the Diocese of Kansas City about Domestic Church. They ask some great questions, and it looks like they are interested in starting it in their dioceses. It would certainly be in good hands!

You know, I used to think I wasn't all that bad at individual prayer, until I was held accountable to doing it every day. I used to think that God and I were pretty close, that we had a good relationship and were capable of some really great conversation, until I reali...