Holy Cross Family Ministries is an international catholic apostolate under the congregation of Holy Cross whose core mission is to educate families about the power promise and practise of family prayer especially the Family Rosary It was after he had suffered an acute tuberculosis disease a year before he got ordained. While in hospital and with all efforts to cure his illness seemingly failing, t
he doctors offered him two options to risk a surgery, which presented him a small ability to survive, or Try Prayer with hope that it might work for him because of his deep spiritual and prayer life! In the wake of his despair, he had but one choice to make as a believer: Try Prayer! In this choice, he made a promise to his beloved mother Mary that, "If you mother heal me from my illness, i will make sure that your name is praised throughout all the world". And indeed, miraculously Patrick Peyton CSC got healed and ordained in 1941 at NotreDame. Because he had a great inspiration for prayer from his own family, where they met together every night to pray the Rosary in turns, he came to believe that indeed, "The Family that Prays together, Stays together!" and that "The powerful tool is in our hands!" This is but the Rosary. He believed that if families always gave only fifteen minutes to pray together, there will be a lot of peace and love in every home. To promote this belief, Patrick Peyton CSC always distributed rosaries to every person and people he met. Convinced priests, bishops and family units about his passion through Rosary Crusades. Through them he founded Family Rosary which is the original name of Holy Cross Family Ministries. In 1947, he founded the Family theatre Productions in HollyWood. This was channel to reach out to the modern and contemporary family. As our MISSION, We are a family of Catholic Ministries that inspires, promotes and fosters the spiritual well-being of families throughout the world. Our world is the small christian communities, the parish centers, parishes, deaneries and dioceses and archdioceses of the Catholic Church! As a family of Catholic Ministries, Our VISION is to Strive to be a respected and reliable catalyst for inspiration, support and dynamic content on family life through a focus on spirituality and prayer especially the Rosary! we believe that the Rosary is the powerful tool in our hands to promote the true spirit of family prayer. We inspire, We support, We create dynamic content towards better sense of prayer and spirituality among families. Today Holy Cross Family Ministries, is filled with passion to help many families to pray together, to pray better, to pray more in 17 countries in the world. This is for two reasons: Patrick Peyton CSC visited Kenya in 1955 i.e. Nairobi and Mau Mau. It is a great honor for us indeed, Secondly, Holy Cross Family Ministries is only found in places where the congregation of Holy Cross is located. This is because all our programs, activities and services are sponsored by the congregration of Holy Cross.
