About Us

The home of Holy Cross Family Ministries Uganda (Headquarters) in Nsambya Kampala,Uganda.

Our History

Holy Cross Family Ministries is a worldwide campaign that eventually became a Roman Catholic movement founded by Reverend Father Patrick Peyton, CSC.

The endeavor came to be as a personal mission to undertake the promotion of the praying of the family Rosary by families as a means to bind families together.

The inspiration to start a campaign came from Father Peyton’s patron, the Blessed Virgin Mary whom he credits as the one who interceded before God and her son Jesus Christ his miraculous recovery from tuberculosis in 1941.

Fr. Peyton was well-known as ”The Rosary Priest”,came in East Africa in 1955 and encouraged families to pray together forwarding his slogan that

”The family That Prays Together Stays Together and A World At Prayer Is A World At Peace.

Our Mission

We inspire, promote and foster the prayer life and spiritual well-being of families throughout the world. Faithful to Mary, Mother of GOD, HCFM encourages family prayer especially the Rosary.

Our Vision

We 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.

Aims and objectives 

• To create awareness of the values of family prayer (Rosary), family and marriage.
• To strive to bring reality the motto ’’The family that prays together stays together’’ and ‘’Try Prayer it works’’ in the lives of people.
• To promote devotion of the Blessed Virgin Mary in every home by daily family prayer of the rosary.
• To encourage training of teams, groups and individuals about the value of prayers in families, marriage, faith and the importance Mother Mary in the families.
• To use the social media (Facebook, Twitter and U tube) to communicate and to evangelize.

Key Activities

Valentine’s Day Special in February(Married couples and those that yearn for Holy Matrimony)

Try Prayer! It works! Contest in June(Secondary Schools)

Children’s Rosary Rally in October(Primary Schools)

Family Prayer Day in November(Entire Family)

Other Activities

• We conduct retreats, workshops and seminars to schools and higher institutions of learning, Parishes, Married Couples, and Youth Apostolate etc.
• Formation Programs for on-going Married couples, Students, youth leaders and teachers.
• We also carry out career guidance to Students.
• We offer counselling to Youth and Pre-marital and Marital.
• We distribute free Rosaries in all out-reaches and here at the offices.
• Prayer Ministry  by our Peyton Prayer Guilds.
• Home Visits (every Wednesday), we reach-out to families to share the life experience, and the spiritual well-being.
• Radio Programs
• Workshops on Natural Family Planning for married couples.
• Conflict Resolutions
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