Women's Groups

We encourage all Catholic Women to consider joining or starting a local women’s group.  There are 2 main networks of Women’s Groups in the Archdiocese of Boston: (a) WINGS – Women in God’s Spirit; and (b) M.O.M.S. – Ministry of Mothers Sharing.

Please see the links above to find out more information.

Why Have a Women's Faith Enrichment Group in your Parish?

• Need to Grow in Faith. Today's Catholic woman who is committed to her faith, has a deep need to grow in and share that faith with others. This is clearly evidenced by the large number of Catholic women presently attending non-Catholic church groups for spiritual study and fellowship.
• Need for Community. Women of all ages, including, women who choose to stay home and be a full-time wife and mother, women who are retired, women whose children have left the home, women working part-time, widowed women, divorced women and single women, require more nurturing from their church than they receive from Sunday mass attendance and involvement in parish organizations.
• Need for Friendship Rooted in Christ. It is important that a group be available on a weekly basis where women can receive additional spiritual and emotional encouragement; a place where women are invited to bond together with other women in friendship, be supported in her vocation as woman, wife and mother and allow her to support her interest in Christ as well.
• Need for Catholic Education. A weekly prayer and study group can encourage a woman to see the value of her life as Christ intended and to know that His support is available to her in the form of her Christian sisters. In this setting, she can be encouraged to grow in her relationship with God through the group, the study of God's Word, her prayer life and her sharing with others. In attending such a group, she will hopefully come to understand the power of God's love within this small Christian community and will be strengthened to share that love with her family, her church, her neighbor and the world in which she lives. This group should not just be another activity to be involved in, but a special time spent in growing and learning those things which will make her life more meaningful.

Courtesy: The original authors of this material, who are also the founding members of WINGS, are the women of St. Martins Catholic Church in Yorba Linda, CA. They intended for this program to be shared with anyone interested in starting a faith enrichment group. We wish to thank them for their vision of such a faith enriching group, their hard work in putting the WINGS program together and most of all, for their faith in God and the guiding hand of His Holy Spirit.