About Families of Nazareth

We would like to extend an invitation to you to join us as we seek to encounter an more deeply experience God’s unconditional Love through Christ’s presence in the events of our daily lives.

What is the Families of Nazareth Movement?

FNM is a world-wide Movement of lay people, religious and priests seeking God’s Merciful Love and responding to Pope John Paul II’s call to the New Evangelization. Founded in 1985 in Poland, it now has members in countries on every continent. The FNM exists within a diocesan structure and our activities occur mainly within the local parishes.

What is our Mission?

To become aware of the truth about ourselves, so we can learn the truth about God. To come to trust and believe in God’s Merciful Love, we experience this through Communion of Life with Christ through Mary.

This spirituality shows all of us, regardless of our vocation in life, a way to respond to the call to holiness. Every way to holiness must be in imitation of Jesus Christ. Inspired by the Gospel, we try to imitate Jesus, who lived thirty years of his earthly life being educated by His Mother & St. Joseph as part of the Holy Family in Nazareth. As we travel this path, we learn to listen to the voice of God, as He speaks to us in many ways and in every day events. We are encouraged to adopt the attitude of the tax collector in the Bible so that we can receive the grace to see ourselves as God sees us. By teaching us to see every situation through the eyes of faith, this spirituality offers solutions for life’s problems. Along the way, we see that faith becomes a way of life. Rooted in the Catholic Church Tradition, this Spirituality draws much from the teachings of St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Thérése of the Child Jesus. This spirituality is straight-forward, it is deep and it is unique for our times.

What are the activities of the FNM in Dallas?

1. FNM groups meet for one hour weekly in St. Mark the Evangelist and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton for prayer, reading of spiritual materials, and faith sharing. Lay animators facilitate these meetings.

2. Conferences, Mass and faith sharing are held several times each year in these parishes by FNM priest.

3. Retreats for development of spiritual life are held several times a year and are led by FNM priests and lay animators. Day Retreats for Advent and Lent are regional, and summer retreats are national.

When and Where do we meet?

Group 1 : Every Tuesday at 9:30am in St. Mark The Evangelist, East Wing Rm# 1, Plano, TX
Group 2 : Every Wednesday at 9:30am in St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Room 112, SFFC, Plano, TX
Group 3 : Every Wednesday at 7:00pm in St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Room 112, SFFC, Plano, TX

"The presence of Christ in the Word of God will overwhelm your interior life and your prayer. Listening intently to the Word of God will cause you to meditate on words, which shall be engraved deeply into your heart." ~ The Gift of Faith by Father Tadeusz Dajczer