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What the Family Is

Explore the significance of the family as the domestic church, its mission to build the Church, uphold love, and shape society. Learn about the threats families face and the call to holiness. Discover the central role parents play in educating and nurturing love in the home.

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What the Family Is

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  1. What the Family Is Family Sunday St. Raphael, Glasgow, MT

  2. Family Become What You Are • FamiliasConsortio – The Community of the Family • Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, 1981 • ChristifideliasLaici – The Lay Members of Christ’s Faithful People (1994) • God sent a saint to bring His message for today’s world • Because, once again, we are confused

  3. The Family (in FC) • Two Poles around which the document centers • Love • Grace of the Sacrament of Matrimony • Christian Anthropology • Karol Wotylia’s long collaboration with and study of the human dynamic • Particularly young single adults and newly married couples

  4. The Family is • First and Vital Cell of Society • the basis for civilization is ordained by God Himself • A Community of Love • Symbol of Christ’s love for the Church • A Church in Microcosm • The Domestic Church

  5. The Domestic Church • Since the 4th century AD • Homily 20, from St. John Chyrsostrum • Renewed at Vatican II documents on the Church and the laity • School of life and love • Image of the Trinity

  6. The Domestic Church - Practices • Prayers and devotions • Before they ever set foot in RE • Religious Art • Holy Water • Book of Blessings • Children’s names and the saints • Guardian Angel • Simply Live It

  7. The Mission of the Family is • To build the Church • Guard, Reveal and Communicate Love • Advance/develop society • Give Life • Partake in the Mission of the Redeemer • Reform society (§47)

  8. Participation • Define the term • Family as fullest participation in the Trinity • Other forms of family are also good, but lacking some measure of the fullness of the good meant to be there (privation) • “Nuclear” family can be lacking as well if it is not love centered and permeated

  9. Catechism of the Catholic Church • Sacrament of Matrimony (Section 2, Chapter 3, Article 7) • §1601 – 1654: the Sacrament • §1655 – 1666: the Domestic Church • § 2201 – 2233: the Christian Family • Sexual ethics §2344 - 2400

  10. Danger and Threats • Challenges to human dignity • Sense of the faithful as majority opinion • Humanae Vitae fallout • Lack of understanding about what marriage is • Distorted understanding about freedom • Hostility to Christianity • Particularly the state • Society as well

  11. Danger and Threats • Divorce • Abortion • Contraceptive mentality • Pornography • Discrimination against women • Everything warned about in HV

  12. Ripple Effect • Most fundamental and indispensable unit of society – • When family fails everything built on it at least limps • Why society is so dysfunctional and why government seeks to step in to do those things families used to do and • Why that is dangerous

  13. Call to Holiness • Universal • Unique form in Marriage and Family • Unique role in the world • Witness of Life • Love each other into Heaven

  14. Parents as Educators • Original • Primary • Unique • Indispensible • Irreplaceable • Inalienable • Others have a subordinate role

  15. Education of Love • Self-Mastery • Effects of Sin • Aid of Grace • Sacrifice • Proper Ordering of all things

  16. So What is one to do? • Answer is not political activism (not first anyway) but families being what they are meant to be – don’t create the vacuum to be filled • First answer is always prayer (or His promises mean nothing; and if they mean nothing He is not God)

  17. Teacher and Mother • The Church is this by analogy • Because God built it into the family first • Calls for cooperation with others • Church • State • They have obligations to the family

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