WASHINGTON - Each year, National Marriage Week USA and World Marriage Day provide an opportunity for the Catholic Church to focus on and celebrate the vocation to marriage and family life. This year, National Marriage Week USA will be celebrated February 7-14, and World Marriage Day, which is commemorated on the second Sunday of February, will be celebrated on February 11.
The theme for this year’s celebration of National Marriage Week is “Love Beyond Words,” which recalls the self-sacrificing love in marriage that is rooted in the wedding promises that the couple makes in matrimony.
The following are resources for celebrating the week in your home and parish:
- At-Home Couples’ Retreat in English and Spanish
- Prayer for Married Couples (PDF)
- Check out Daily Marriage Tips for new ideas to strengthen your relationship.
- Listen to Marriage Unique for a Reason’s Made for Love Podcast, which tells the stories of real people living out the call to love.
- ForYourMarriage.org helps couples at all stages of life to understand and live God’s plan for happy, holy marriages by providing educational and spiritual resources.
- Worldwide Marriage Encounter provides numerous resources for celebrating World Marriage Day.
- National Marriage Week offers helpful ideas for building up your own marriage, recommended reading, supporting marriage in the community, and much more. There’s also a listing of marriage-building events throughout the country.
- Fortifying Couples & Families Video Series
More marriage resources curated by the Diocese of Raleigh's Marriage and Family Life ministry can be found here: