Enjoy reading the latest updates from the Wojtyla Community & Institute!

Read the Inspiring Advent issue of JOYFUL!

12/19/2023 - The Advent issue of JOYFUL! is ready to read! JOYFUL! is the Wojtyła Community & Institute's quarterly communique. With articles, insights, personal stories, as well as news about the details of upcoming events and retreats ...

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The Wojtyła Community & Institute Introduces JOYFUL!

10/10/2023 - The Wojtyła Community & Institute launches a quarterly communique: JOYFUL! With articles, insights, personal stories, as well as news about the details of upcoming events and retreats ...

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EWTN invites Peter & Theresa to Alabama for Interview.

09/01/2023 - The Wojtyła Community & Institute is excited to share that EWTN has invited Peter and Theresa Martin down to be on the "At Home with Jim and Joy" show!

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Pontifical John Paul II Institute recognizes Peter Martin as featured alumnus. Praises work on The Rule and with WCI.

8/23/2023 - WASHINGTON, D.C. The Pontifical John Paul II Insitute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America recently featured Peter Martin as their featured alumnus in an alumni email newsletter. The email included Peter's story ...

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FANTASTIC INTERVIEW. Watch Now! Peter & Theresa Martin on the Messy Family Project Podcast!

Mike and Alicia Hernon, from the Messy Family Project podcast, sit down with Peter and Theresa Martin interviewing them about St. John Paul II's Rule in this lively and entertaining exchange! watch here ...

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What are People Saying About THE RULE?!

Check out the latest PRESS on The Rule! OUR SUNDAY VISITOR: "JPII’s astonishing ‘rule’ for married couples available for the first time in English" by Katie Yoder March 20, 2023. WORD ON FIRE: "St. John Paul II’s Rule for a Joy-Filled Marriage" by Edyta McNichol APRIL 24, 2023. EPIC PEW: "Could Your Marriage Change The World? John Paul II Thinks So" by Laura Ricketts APRIL 19, 2023.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEW BOOK: The Rule: St. John Paul II’s Rule for a Joy-Filled Marriage of Divine Love

Wojtyła Institute Press is excited to announce its inaugural book: The Rule: St. John Paul II’s Rule for a Joy-Filled Marriage of Divine Love. In this book, Theresa and Peter Martin offer us the first English translation of Cardinal Wojtyła’s Rule as well as two other texts. They have brilliantly taken the concise, six-point “Rule for Married Couple Groups” written by St. John Paul II and expounded upon it, using St. John Paul II's own words, to explain his key to deepening conjugal spirituality and finding lasting joy!

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We are an Easter people! and alleluia is our song!

4/25/22 – We have celebrated Easter - our Savior's glorious Resurrection! Concluding the octave with Divine Mercy Sunday, what a wonderful season we have only begun! This is the culmination of the great desire of God to bring us back to Himself - in an eternal Marriage Banquet of the Lamb! So, what a great moment to recap on what we have learned about Conjugal Spirituality this Lent! And what it means for us now.

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The Beauty of the Ordinary

Feb. 3, 2021 - As the Church continues in ordinary time, it can feel - well, 'just ordinary.' Sometimes our married lives can feel ordinary and that might cause us to feel down or defeated, feeling like maybe we should be doing something more - more extraordinary? ...

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Our dear Cardinal needs our Prayers!

Aug. 17, 2021 - Hello, friends! In case you have not heard, Cardinal Raymond Burke, a holy, kind man and great shepherd of the Catholic Church, is in the hospital fighting Covid-19. The situation is serious. His Eminence is a longtime friend of our founders, Peter & Theresa Martin, and their family. He also supports the work and mission of the WCI!

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For Immediate Release

Apr. 30, 2021 (Winona, MN) - The Wojtyla Community & Institute, Inc. (WCI) Board of Directors has named Theresa Martin as the first Executive Director of the WCI. Theresa received ...

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Happy Feast of the Annunciation!

Mar. 25, 2021 - Ahhhh ... the Feast of the Annunciation! The moment when God entered into the human struggle and inserted His very Self into our history, what LOVE God has for us! "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have ...

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