Honor and Celebrate Couples' Special Anniversaries
Anniversary certificates are a wonderful way to recognize the many years couples have shared.
Recognize milestone anniversaries in your parish with a certificate signed by Bishop David Ricken (sample below).
How to Order Certificates
Individuals or couples interested in receiving a certificate should contact their parish.
Parishes,
How To Obtain a Papal Blessing Parchment
Requests for papal blessings must be submitted directly to the Papal Charities Office in Vatican City, or directly through their website:
https://www.elemosineria.va/papal-blessing-parchments/
Marital joy can be experienced even amid sorrow; it involves accepting that marriage is an inevitable mixture of enjoyment and struggles, tensions and repose, pain and relief, satisfactions and longings, annoyances and pleasures, but always on the path of friendship, which inspires married couples to care for one another.
- Pope Francis -
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