Enjoy reading the latest updates from the Wojtyla Community & Institute!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW BOOK: The Rule: St. John Paul II’s Rule for a Joy-Filled Marriage of Divine Love

Wojtyła Institute Press is excited to announce its inaugural book: The Rule: St. John Paul II’s Rule for a Joy-Filled Marriage of Divine Love. In this book, Theresa and Peter Martin offer us the first English translation of Cardinal Wojtyła’s Rule as well as two other texts. They have brilliantly taken the concise, six-point “Rule for Married Couple Groups” written by St. John Paul II and expounded upon it, using St. John Paul II's own words, to explain his key to deepening conjugal spirituality and finding lasting joy!

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We are an Easter people! and alleluia is our song!

4/25/22 – We have celebrated Easter - our Savior's glorious Resurrection! Concluding the octave with Divine Mercy Sunday, what a wonderful season we have only begun! This is the culmination of the great desire of God to bring us back to Himself - in an eternal Marriage Banquet of the Lamb! So, what a great moment to recap on what we have learned about Conjugal Spirituality this Lent! And what it means for us now.

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The Beauty of the Ordinary

Feb. 3, 2021 - As the Church continues in ordinary time, it can feel - well, 'just ordinary.' Sometimes our married lives can feel ordinary and that might cause us to feel down or defeated, feeling like maybe we should be doing something more - more extraordinary? ...

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Our dear Cardinal needs our Prayers!

Aug. 17, 2021 - Hello, friends! In case you have not heard, Cardinal Raymond Burke, a holy, kind man and great shepherd of the Catholic Church, is in the hospital fighting Covid-19. The situation is serious. His Eminence is a longtime friend of our founders, Peter & Theresa Martin, and their family. He also supports the work and mission of the WCI!

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For Immediate Release

Apr. 30, 2021 (Winona, MN) - The Wojtyla Community & Institute, Inc. (WCI) Board of Directors has named Theresa Martin as the first Executive Director of the WCI. Theresa received ...

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Happy Feast of the Annunciation!

Mar. 25, 2021 - Ahhhh ... the Feast of the Annunciation! The moment when God entered into the human struggle and inserted His very Self into our history, what LOVE God has for us! "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have ...

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Merry Christmas!

Dec 27, 2020 - We wish you the happiest Christmas! One of our founding texts was written on the Feast of the Nativity and so Christmas is so precious to our community. It is through Jesus Christ, the second Person of the most Holy Trinity, becoming man that our salvation was made possible...

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Blessed Advent!

Dec 1, 2020 - As the Church restarts her liturgical year, we embrace the love with which Advent brings us. The Advent and Christmas seasons are so dear to us in the Wojtyła Community & Institute, because one of our founding documents ...

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Be not afraid!

Nov 19, 2020 - In these unprecedented times, we continue to put our hope, our trust, our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ! He called us to this vision during a pandemic and He will guide us through ...

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The Feast Day of St. John Paul II is a JOYous celebration for the WCI

Oct 22, 2020 - As St. John Paul II is the patron Saint of the Wojtyła Community & Institute, HAPPY FEAST DAY!!! We continue to move forward with our pioneer Married Couple Group, following The Rule ...

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Great News for the Wojtyła Community & Institute!

Sept 15, 2020 - We are so excited to share with you that the WCI is now an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization! There was so much paperwork that went into ...

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Stepping out of the boat

Aug 24, 2020 - The Wojtyła Community & Institute, Inc. was launched on the 52nd anniversary of Humanae Vitae, July 25, 2020. The WCI follows The Rule for married couple groups written by St. John Paul II when he was Cardinal Karol Wojtyła. The Rule was written in response to the promulgation of Humanae Vitae and ...

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