Domestic Church in Canada

In our own time, in a world often alien and even hostile to faith, believing families are of primary importance as centers as living, radiant faith. For this reason the Second Vatican Council, using an ancient expression, calls the family the Ecclesia Domestica.

(CCC 1656)

Domestic Church is a Vatican-recognized lay movement for Sacramentally married couples that provides Catholic Christian community and lifelong spiritual formation through small groups and retreats. 
The movement was founded in Poland in the early 1970s by Venerable Fr. Franciszek Blachnicki (pronounced Fron-SHE-shek Block-NEET-skee), with the close guidance and support of his friend and Bishop, Karol Wojtyla (the future Pope St. John Paul II). 

Today, there are more than 13,000 couples in Domestic Church in Poland, and nearly 5,000 more Domestic Church couples around the world. 

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