Joyful!

Read the Advent issue of JOYFUL! Stories of Hope, Inspiration, Healing, and news on Marriage Retreats, new Leader Couple Training Course, upcoming events, and more!

On August 8, 2024, I went, alone, to an appointment for what was supposed to be “just a cyst” and left a breast cancer patient. At 32 years old, with four children ranging from two to ...

Can a marriage retreat really make a difference in one’s spousal relationship? Who will be there? I won’t know anyone. It sounds forced and cheesy. Is it worth my time? I share these honest and ...

As I assume many are familiar, Ecclesiastes reminds us that there is a time for everything. For many, the season of being newly married, working, navigating a residency program, and ...

It’s hard to describe where the affection and admiration for Pope St. John Paul begin for us. Growing up with him serving us as pope with such faithfulness, he is so deeply woven into our ...

From the Celebrate Marriage Conference in Greenwood, IN to Marriage Retreat Night in Guilford, IN to the JPII Feast Day Celebration in Winona, and Made for Greatness Retreat in Fargo, ...

Have you been thinking about a married couple group following JPII's Rule? What does that mean? What is Leader Couple training? Here are all your answers!

I'm often fascinated by the life of St. Joseph. So little is known about one of the most important figures of the New Testament. Yet, the few details of his life and faith serve as a model to all husbands. Advent, in particular, always draws ...

I wouldn’t be a wife or a mother if it weren’t for Pope John Paul II. I had sworn off marriage and motherhood as a college student, influenced as I was by university feminists who tried hard to convince themselves ...

A la WCI se le ha pedido innumerables veces que traduzca La Regla al español. Sin embargo ... The WCI has been asked countless times to have The Rule translated into Spanish. However ...

It was Christmas of 2004, and I was 5 months pregnant with our oldest and far from home. This was the fourth year of our journey to study theology in Rome, and being pregnant, we thought ...

Every year we make a special effort to celebrate our Patron Saint and author of The Rule. This year, Providence would have it that our quarterly Rodzinka Night Live* landed on St. John Paul II's Feast Day, so of course ...