From Marriage Preparation to Natural Family Planning and Sexuality, resources for a healthy and holy relationship.
In light of the circumstances surrounding the coronavirus, the Archdiocesan Marriage Preparation Conference for May 2, 2020, and the Catholic Engaged Encounter Weekend Retreat for May 1-3, 2020 have been canceled. All participants have been notified and our team is working with all of the couples to provide a plan to fulfill this marriage preparation requirement.
Meetings to plan the wedding liturgy, meetings with the pastor/pastoral staff, and meetings to review the FOCCUS and other pre-marital inventories should still take place virtually, if possible.
We realize this is a heart-breaking time for so many engaged couples whose wedding plans have been significantly altered. We will pray for the peace of all the couples and those walking with them in their preparation.
The Office for Marriage and Family Life exists to build up the Body of Christ in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee by providing an authentic, Catholic vision of Sacramental Marriage as an icon of the love between Christ and His Bride, the Church. This office provides resources for Marriage preparation and support, Natural Family Planning, praying together as a family, Courage and Encourage contacts, pornagraphy help and more.
Timeline, resources, and registration for engaged retreats for couples preparing for marriage.
Premarital Inventory (Facilitating Open Couple Communication, Understanding and Study)
Information on marriage blessings and annulments coming soon!
Worldwide Marriage Encounter's mission of renewal is to assist couples to live fully intimate and responsible relationships.
Retrouvaille is a peer ministry, a ministry of hope for hurting marriages. The team couples, by sharing their own lives, give other couples hope.
For over 100 years, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee has hosted a Jubilee Celebration for couples celebrating 25, 50+ and 60+ years of marriage.
The Office for Marriage and Family Life promotes Natural Family Planning as a highly effective, marriage enriching, spiritually enlightening, and moral means of understanding fertility.
At Catholic Charities, we’ve been helping to create Forever Families since 1920. Our adoption staff serves the ten counties of the Milwaukee Archdiocese (and eleven counties of the Diocese of Madison, on a case-by-case basis).
A pregnant woman, facing difficulties, is best served by committed individuals who will embrace her as part of a wider loving community, and this is what makes Parish ministry so effective and beautiful.
Information on several organizations dedicated to supporting and educating Catholic women.
Life's Connections offers several services for women and families suffering the loss of child through miscarriage. Burials, mentors, miscarriage delivery aids and other resources are available.
It’s normal to grieve a pregnancy loss, including the loss of a child by abortion. It can form a hole in one’s heart, a hole so deep that sometimes it seems nothing can fill the emptiness. You are not alone.
Programs, support groups and resources for those who are grieving.
Provides resources and support for those persons who are separated and divorced.
Resources and support for those struggling with pornography use and addiction.
Resources and support for those with same sex attraction, and their families.
Mary Mueller Director of Marriage and Family Life 414-758-2222 muellerm@archmil.org
Emily Burds Associate Director 414-758-2213 burdse@archmil.org
Tori Franke Program and Events Coordinator, NFP Consultant 414-758-2241 pohlt@archmil.org
Merridith Frediani Administrative Assistant 414-758-2201 fredianim@archmil.org
3501 South Lake Drive PO Box 070912 Milwaukee, WI 53207-0912