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Council for Marriage & the Family
PO Box 146
383 Albert Street
East Melbourne Victoria 3002
Phone: 03 9287 5579
Fax: 03 9926 5617
Email: cmf@melbourne.catholic.org.au

Latest News:

[Advent Card available for download]

World Meeting of Families 2006

The 5th World Meeting of Families was recently held in Valencia, Spain. Click here to read Pope Benedict XVI's homily at the closing Mass.

As part of the lead up to the World Meeting of Families, the CMF and the Family Office in Sydney produced a series of articles on the meeting's theme: "Transmission of Faith through the Family". To view the articles, simply click on the links below:

1.The Family, first and principle transmitter of the faith.

2. The Trinity: A community of Life and Love

3. “The Person of Jesus Christ – the centre and synthesis of our faith”

4.The Holy Spirit and the Church

5. The sacraments, special moments for the transmission of the faith

6. The Commandments of God's Law

7.Sunday, a day to receive the ‘Lord of lords’ with all its reality and power.

8. Popular Piety

6. The Virgin Mary

“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16).

Click here to link to read Pope Benedict's New Encyclical Deus Caritas Est-God is Love

Coming Events:

Deanery Talks- An Introduction to Theology of the Body.

If you would like to hear an introductory talk on the Theology of the Body in your Parish please contact the Office for Marriage and the Family on: 9287 5579