Global Apostolate

Who We Are

Family Prayer Night is a simple, "little way" for priests, parents and parish families to evangelize, to bring hearts and souls directly to Jesus: to meet Him, to spend time in His presence, to ask for assistance, to heal the wounds of sin and division, and to thank and love Him.

The Global Apostolate of Family Prayer Night Devotions serves the mission of the Catholic Church by fostering the spiritual restoration and renewal of the family, one family at a time. Through the positive influence of Family Prayer Night Devotions, families learn the importance of spending time in Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and of the inestimable rewards that come from praying together every day as family. And, with those foundational principles securely in place, families will undoubtedly find it much easier to embrace and live the fullness of Catholic moral teachings on marriage, family life and human sexuality.

For these reasons, we've developed free resources for implementing family prayer in the home, learning to respect our bodies as "temples of the Holy Spirit", and restoring faith and belief in Jesus' Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist.

Global Apostolate of Family Prayer Night Devotions is a resource center for both families and Family Prayer Night Devotions. However, it should also be noted that local Family Prayer Nights always come under the supervision and direction of the parish priest and his Bishop to whom we, as an apostolate, encourage strict obedience.

And finally, in today's morally corrupt culture, we believe that it's vitally important for families of like mind to band together to support one another in living the fullness of the Catholic Faith.

Communitas Dei Patis is just such an association of families and single people that began informally in 1991. After a decade of prayer and study together, we formalized its vision of promoting and supporting authentic Catholic family values while respecting individual member’s and family’s inalienable God-given rights to autonomy (self-governance and freedom), family identity or culture, and privacy.

So as we pilgrimage home together as one family of God the Father, we are confident and certain that our contribution to The New Evangelization will produce vibrant, faith-filled Catholic families that will lead many poor lost souls to Jesus Christ.

Our Mission

Our apostolate within the New Evangelization is to foster spiritual revival within families in the Roman Catholic Tradition.

At the parish level, we do this by providing a free booklet to lay leaders on How To Start Family Prayer Night Devotions. We also encourage individuals and families to:

Participate weekly in Family Prayer Night Devotions
Pray together as family every day
Spend an hour a week in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Learn and live the Catholic Faith with unwavering fidelity, joy of heart and absolute trust in God through and in the loving and Immaculate Heart of Mary our Mother

Our Apostolate
Why It Is So Important

In his Letter to Families, Saint Pope John Paul the Great said, “The history of mankind, the history of salvation passes by way of the family. The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love. To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good, the source of which is found in Christ, the Redeemer of Man” (#23).

And, near the end of her life, Sr. Lucia of Fatima is quoted as saying, "The final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about Marriage and the Family."

Sacred Scripture says (and we as Communitas Dei Patris agree), "Where one alone may be overcome, two together can resist. A three-ply cord is not easily broken" (Ecclesiastes 4:12).