• Marriages Matter: An age-old institution faces new challenges

• Grade Your Marriage

• Stages of Marriage

Additional inserts will be available in the next few months on the diocesan website.

Other sources for bulletin inserts are at:

http://www.masscatholicmarriage.org/webpages/bulletininserts.html

http://www.masscatholicmarriage.org/webpages/usccbresources.html

Marriage Building Sundays are designed to honor those who are married and to promote marriage to the entire congregation throughout the year.  Parishes may send individual anniversary cards with an invitation to attend the Mass couples will be honored or place a notice  in the parish bulletin inviting couples celebrating an anniversary to attend the Mass when the couples will be honored.  A special blessing is given at this Mass (see below for an example.)  This would be repeated each month.

The following blessing may be used: