World Marriage Day

World Marriage Day is an outgrowth of Worldwide Marriage Encounter, an apostolate aimed at helping couples make good marriages even better. World Marriage Day began in 1983 and is celebrated every second Sunday of February in dioceses across the country. In 1993, his Holiness, Pope John Paul II, imparted his Apostolic Blessings on World Marriage Day. The purpose of World Marriage Day is to highlight the beauty of marriage and to honor husbands and wives for their faithfulness and sacrifices.

National Marriage Week USA, launched in 2010, is part of an international event seeking to mobilize individuals, organizations, and businesses in a common purpose to strengthen marriage in communities and influence the culture. The Secretariat on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offers a full set of resources to bishops, priests, deacons, married couples, and lay men and women to help celebrate and live the great gift of married life.

There are no diocesan-sponsored World Marriage Day activities or events planned for 2023, however, a complete set of parish resources and married couple resources are available on our diocesan web pages.
www.dioceseoftrenton.org/world-marriage-day
www.dioceseoftrenton.org/world-marriage-day-for-parishes
www.dioceseoftrenton.org/world-marriage-day-for-couples
Parishes are encouraged to honor married couples in various ways during Saturday and Sunday liturgies on February 11 and 12, 2023. We encourage parishes to consider the entire month of February to be a month for marriage.