CCCB RELEASE: NATIONAL WEEK FOR LIFE AND THE FAMILY
MAY 12-19, 2013
SUGGESTED RESOURCES AND OPTIONS
The Canadian Conference of Catholic
The theme for this year’s Week is The Family: Facing life’s challenges together with Christ. The following resources are currently available on the CCCB life and family webpage:
- Artwork for full-colour posters
- Artwork for full-colour prayer cards/bookmarks, formatted 8 ½ x 11 inches
- Artwork for full-colour prayer cards / bookmark, formatted so four copies can be printed at a time on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper
- Suggestions for promoting the Week before it begins as well as for activities during the Week
- Information on why to celebrate life and family together
- Text from the Diocese of Hamilton of an optional prayer for families
- Artwork from the Diocese of Hamilton for a series of three colour posters on families learning,living and loving in faith.
- Suggestions for liturgical celebrations to help mark the Week for Life and the Family: prayer for individual and group, a Vigil for life and family, Homily notes, Mass of the Ascension, Vigil Mass for the Solemnity of Pentecost, and a celebration of Vespers for the following Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (PDF)
- A letter to families and other information (in French only) for Quebec Family Week, 13-19 May 2013, which many
Additional resources will be posted on the CCCB life and family webpage as they become available.
Dioceses, parishes and other non-profit groups can freely download the artwork of the proposed poster and prayer card / bookmark in order to print the total number of copies needed. The dimensions of the poster can be adjusted to the size that dioceses or parishes find most practical. It is the responsibility of institutions or groups using the materials to comply with the following conditions for use of the BRADI BARTH painting of the Holy Family:
- The name "BRADI BARTH" and "© www.bradi-barth.org" must be clearly noted under the image.
- Copies of this image are not to be sold. For commercial purposes, please contact BRADI BARTH – www.bradi-barth.ogus.
- The use of this image is limited to this printing. The image may not be used directly or indirectly for any other application. Use of other versions of this image, scanned or otherwise copied, is strictly prohibited.
- The image must be reproduced in its whole, without omission or cutting. Colour and/or quality deviation, as well as overprinting on the picture, are prohibited.
The promotion and activity suggestions for the 2013 National Week for Life and the Family were prepared by the Catholic Organization for Life and Family (COLF). These suggestions can be adapted or used in whatever way is practical for local needs, or other plans and activities substituted instead.
Background information on the vision and purpose of the National Week for Life and the Family is available in a CCCB document entitled “Elements of a National Pastoral Initiative for Life and Family”.
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