Visitation Parish 

Catholic Church

God created man and woman out of love and commanded them to imitate his love in their relations with each other. Man and woman were created for each other…Woman and man are equal in human dignity, and in marriage both are united in an unbreakable bond. (United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, Ch. 21, p. 279)

Visitation Parish requires six months of notice. Please contact the parish office to discuss dates and other details. To arrange a wedding, at least one family member must be a registered member of Visitation Parish, or special arrangements must be made.  Please call the parish office at 630-834-6700 for more information.

Natural Family Planning (NFP) is the general title for the scientific, natural and moral methods of family planning that can help married couples either achieve or postpone pregnancies.

NFP methods are based on the observation of the naturally occurring signs and symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of a woman's menstrual cycle. No drugs, devices, or surgical procedures are used to avoid pregnancy.

Since the methods of NFP respect the love-giving (unitive) and life-giving (procreative) nature of the conjugal act, they support God's design for married love!

Interested in learing about Natural Family Planning?  Contact Cathy Mullen via email at cathyjomullen@aol.com or call her at (773) 428-4592 to schedule an informational session.

This retreat is a weekend away, with other engaged couples, which allows plenty of private time to plan your MARRIAGE, not your wedding day.  It is designed to give you the opportunity to talk honestly and intensively for 32 hours about your prospective life together—your strengths and weaknesses, desires, ambitions, goals, attitudes about money, sex, children, family, your role in the Church and in society—in an environment free from the pressures and distractions of the outside world.  View this testimonial video to see what couples are saying.Click here for information about Catholic Engaged Encounter weekends.