Safe Haven Sunday
February 12, 2023
Contact
Sr. John Mary Sullivan, FSE
sjmsullivan@rcav.org
604-683-0281 ext. 50221
Safe Haven Sunday Resources
Safe Haven Sunday is a weekend set aside by the Archdiocese of Vancouver and parishes to directly address the harms of sexualized content and pornography in an appropriate way. Within the context of the Mass, parishes are able to provide teaching and resources that will support and protect individuals, marriages and families in making all homes a safe haven.
It is inspired by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ formal statement Create in Me a Clean Heart: A Pastoral Response to Pornography, where they explain, “The use of pornography by anyone in the home deprives the home of its role as a safe haven and has a negative effect throughout a family’s life and across generations.”
Equipping the Family – Safeguarding Children
Safe Haven Sunday is celebrating its first year of raising awareness throughout the Archdiocese of Vancouver regarding the negative impact of pornography on individuals, marriages, families and society.
What is Safe Haven Sunday?
An introduction by Covenant Eyes
Safe Haven Sunday Prayer
Loving Father, thank you for the gift of marriage and family life.
We entrust to you our home and ask you to make it a safe haven for all who live and enter these walls. May our home truly be a holy place for both young and old to be formed in the truth regarding life love, sex, and marriage. May each of our members be protected from and guided in seeking to avoid pornography, while embracing the freedom and purity of life in Christ.
We ask you to send forth your Spirit to heal, bless, renew, and consecrate this home of ours as a safe haven with your son Jesus Christ at the center of our lives, today, tomorrow, and always.
We ask this through the intercession of the Holy Family of Nazareth, Saints Joachim and Ann, the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Amen.
Confident: Helping Parents Navigate Online Exposure is a step-by-step conversation guide that includes:
- Information about the prevalence of pornography use today
- A four-step process for discussing pornography with a child or teen
- Scripts for conversing with a child about pornography in the light of biblical sexuality
- Information about porn use versus porn addiction
- A plan for protecting your home and devices
The icon depicting Saints Joachim and Anne (Parents of Mary, the Mother of God) embracing inside the Holy House was written by iconographer Reverend Father Thomas J. Loya, Tabor Life Institute. Printed with Permission.
Parish & School Resources
Resource
Confident: Helping Parents Navigate
Online Exposure
