By City News Service
Feb 14, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Archbishop Jose H. Gomez will offer a blessing to married couples during the World Marriage Day Mass he will celebrate in English at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels at 10 a.m. today.
A Mass in Spanish will be celebrated at noon by Rev. Brian Nunes.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, there will be limited in-person attendance at the cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. The Masses will be streamed on facebook.com/lacatholics and facebook.com/olacathedral/.
In prior years, the Cathedral has invited couples celebrating important anniversary milestones (50, 30, 25 years of matrimony) and their families to the special Mass. During the Mass, the couples have renewed their vows and received a commemorative certificate for their testimony of love.
Feb. 9, 2021 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON This year, World Marriage Day, observed annually on the second Sunday of February, will be celebrated Feb. 14, which also is the feast of St. Valentine and which since the eighth century has been a celebration of love and affection. In the United States, National Marriage Week leads up to World Marriage Day and this year s theme for the weeklong observance, which began Feb. 7, is To Have, To Hold, To Honor. The theme was chosen to highlight how married couples live and renew their wedding promises daily in the building up of the domestic church in their homes, particularly as many couples and families have spent more time at home together this year, said a news release from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
U.S. Bishops Celebrate Week in Defense of Man-Woman Marriage
6 Feb 2021
The U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) has announced the kickoff of National Marriage Week Sunday in “defense of marriage as a lifelong union of one man and one woman.”
“Each year, National Marriage Week USA and World Marriage Day provide an opportunity for the Catholic Church to focus on building a culture of life and love that begins with supporting and promoting marriage and the family,” the USCCB website states.
“This year, National Marriage Week USA will be celebrated February 7-14 and World Marriage Day which is commemorated on the second Sunday of February will be celebrated on Sunday, February 14,” the statement adds.