In his landmark document on family life, Pope John Paul II stated that, “The sacrament of marriage gives to the educational role the dignity and vocation of being really and truly a ‘ministry’ of the Church at the service of the building up of her members.  So great and splendid is the educational ministry of Christian parents that Saint Thomas has no hesitation in comparing it with the ministry of priests: ‘Some only propagate and guard spiritual life by a spiritual ministry: this is the role of the sacrament of Orders; others do this for both corporal and spiritual life, and this is brought about by the sacrament of marriage, by which a man and a woman join in order to beget offspring and bring them up to worship God.’”  The Catechetical Institute views parenting as the critical catechetical role in the Church.  The workshops offered in this track are not intended to result in any certification, but instead aim at a far more fundamental end:  forming adults who know how to live a missionary life in marriage – judging nothing in life as greater than the work of parenting towards sainthood, and striving for spousal sanctity.  To foster this, a great variety of pragmatic and imaginative workshops is offered by the Catechetical Institute as electives in every track, and collected together in this track to help families in our challenging modern culture to see God’s plan for the domestic church and the school of holiness as the decisive element in bringing about a culture of life.  This track's content is funded with a generous grant by the Our Sunday Visitor Institute.