The following are the eight commitments made by each of St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers.

1. Affirming Christ's Lordship Over Our Families
   
   
   As the leaders of our families, we will explicitly acknowledge the social kingship of Christ over our families. Toward this end we will have a home enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus that we renew annually. We believe that the enthronement of the Sacred Heart deepens family life by bringing about a greater love between the Heart of Jesus and the hearts of parents and children. To invite Christ's loving Lordship and presence in our family, we will seek to have daily family prayer and Scriptures read aloud in the home. At least weekly on the Lord's Day, our family will worship together and receive Christ in the Eucharist, the ultimate source of our family life and unity.
   
   
2. Following St. Joseph - the Loving Leader & Head of the Holy Family
   
   
   St. Joseph, after the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the greatest of all saints in heaven. His greatness in God's plan stems from being the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and from being the father of Jesus Christ in the fullest sense, except for physical generation. As Catholic men, we will seek his intercession, along with that of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to fulfill our calling of leading our families to be like the Holy Family.
   
   
   As husbands and fathers, we commit ourselves to be loving leaders and heads of our families following the examples of St. Joseph in serving the Holy Family and Christ's humble service to the Church, his mystical bride. We will neither irresponsibly abandon our leadership role within our families, nor abuse our leadership role through sinful domination and domestic tyranny. Along with the affirmation of the headship of husbands and fathers in a family, we simultaneously affirm the perfect and complete equality between husbands and wives.
   
   
3. Loving Our Wives All Our Lives
   
   
   As covenant keepers, we believe that a lawful Christian marriage is indissoluble. We believe that the sacrament of marriage is a lifelong covenant bond made possible by the abundant graces available in the New Covenant. We do not believe that marriage is a breakable contract. The indissolubility of the marriage covenant is the foundation for marriage and for the future of the family. As fathers, we realize the greatest gift we can ever give our children is faithfulness to our marriage vows. We believe that a willful divorce from a lawful marriage is covenant breaking in the most profound sense. If problems arise within our marriages we will seek help to heal our marriages and not seek a divorce. We will help others with whom we are networked to do the same. We will also take steps to keep our marriages strong, even when serious marital problems are absent. To help maintain lifelong covenant faithfulness to our wives, we will avoid both the remote and near occasions that may lead to the sin of adultery.
   
   
4. Turning Our Hearts Toward Our Children
   
   
   It is common for modern fathers to have their hearts drawn to the pursuit of wealth, personal pleasures, and pastimes. As St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers, we will turn our hearts toward our children. This turning of heart, mind, and life priorities will be especially reflected in the time we devote to our children. We realize that for our children love is a four letter word spelled "t-i-m-e." Since time is money in the modern world, we need to value our children more than money and make them a higher priority.
   
   
5. Educating Our Children in the Discipline and Instruction of the Lord
   
   
   Parents are the first and primary educators of their children. Fathers are particularly singled out in Scripture for the religious education and training of their children (Genesis 18:19, Psalm 78, Ephesians 6:4). This high privilege and duty of fathers teaching the faith to their children will result in a faith that will persevere through adolescent questionings, peer pressure, and university life.
   
   
6. Protecting Our Families
   
   
   As fathers, we will protect our families from physical, spiritual, and moral harm. We will take personal responsibility, and an active role to preserve our children's chastity. We will protect them from everything which disturbs or destroys the fragile nature of our children's sexual latency, innocence, and purity.
   
   
7. Providing for Our Families
   
   
   As fathers, we will assume the primary responsibility for the financial provision of our families. We will seek to learn and to apply Christian principles of financial stewardship within our families. Whenever possible, we will seek to provide the maximum opportunity for our wives to nurture our children at home.
   
   
8. Building Our Marriages & Families on the "Rock"
   
   
   As St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers, we will seek to build our homes on the "Rock" by following the teachings of the successors of St. Peter. We will seek to learn and to live by the historically rooted Church teachings on marriage, family, and human sexuality. This includes the Church's teaching on birth control. Those who practice the Church's teaching have a divorce rate of less than 5%. Those who are following the Creator's plan for marriage are discovering a powerful strengthening of their marriages. Conversely, a skyrocketing divorce rate has closely paralleled the ignoring of Church teaching.
   

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