Chapter, Paragraph, Number
1 Intro, 0 | the Church, which is the Family of God 5 and the community
2 I, 0 | and encouragement to you, Family of God in Africa, to you,
3 I, 0 | God in Africa, to you, the Family of God all over the world:
4 I, 0 | evangelization, catechesis, the family, reconciliation and penance
5 I, 0 | The Family of God in the Synodal process~
6 II, 1 | tradition the role of the family is everywhere held to be
7 II, 1 | Open to this sense of the family, of love and respect for
8 II, 1 | and relatives within the family.~African cultures have an
9 II, 1 | societies expresses the extended family. It is my ardent hope and
10 II, 2 | concerned Christian marriage and family life.62 What is at stake
11 II, 2 | Church passes through the family".63~Another fundamental
12 II, 2 | concerns and threats to the family, the liberation of women,
13 II, 3 | God's plan for the human family. Consequently I have called
14 III, 0 | prayer and for study in the family and community. Also to be
15 III, 0 | The Church as God's Family~63. Not only did the Synod
16 III, 0 | taking the Church as God's Family as its guiding idea for
17 III, 0 | building up the Church as Family, avoiding all ethnocentrism
18 III, 0 | theology of the Church as Family with all the riches contained
19 III, 0 | idea of the Church as the Family of God.103 It will then
20 III, 0 | first of all within the family of the Church at all levels:
21 III, 0 | Father of the one great human family to which we all belong.
22 III, 0 | greatly towards making the family of man and its history more
23 IV, 1 | the phenomena notably of family uprooting, urbanization,
24 IV, 2 | II. The Family~
25 IV, 2 | Evangelizing the family~80. "The future of the world
26 IV, 2 | Church passes through the family".155 Not only is the Christian
27 IV, 2 | Not only is the Christian family the first cell of the living
28 IV, 2 | Africa in particular, the family is the foundation on which
29 IV, 2 | evangelization of the African family a major priority, if the
30 IV, 2 | a major priority, if the family is to assume in its turn
31 IV, 2 | of modernity, the African family must preserve its own essential
32 IV, 2 | The Holy Family as a model~81. In this regard
33 IV, 2 | In this regard the Holy Family, which according to the
34 IV, 2 | source for every Christian family.157~To repeat the words
35 IV, 2 | threefold lesson: of silence, of family life and of work. In the
36 IV, 2 | other members of the Holy Family.~
37 IV, 2 | Saving the African family~84. Many interventions in
38 IV, 2 | present-day threats to the African family. The concerns of the Synod
39 IV, 2 | many values of the African family. The Synod Fathers, accepting
40 IV, 2 | appeal to safeguard the family. They pleaded: "Do not allow
41 IV, 2 | Do not allow the African family to be ridiculed on its own
42 IV, 2 | International Year of the Family to become the year of the
43 IV, 2 | of the destruction of the family!"165~
44 IV, 2 | The family as open to society~85. By
45 IV, 2 | way, by its nature, the family extends beyond the individual
46 IV, 2 | oriented towards society. "The family has vital and organic links
47 IV, 2 | to life: it is from the family that citizens come to birth
48 IV, 2 | birth and it is within the family that they find the first
49 IV, 2 | closed in on itself, the family is by nature and vocation
50 IV, 2 | build up the Church as the Family of God, an anticipation
51 V, 1 | recognized that the Church as Family cannot reach her full potential
52 V, 1 | The family~92. The Synod launched an
53 V, 1 | for each African Christian family to become "a privileged
54 V, 1 | It is in the heart of the family that parents are by word
55 V, 1 | here that the father of the family, the mother, children, and
56 V, 1 | and all members of the family exercise the priesthood
57 V, 1 | develop a programme for the family apostolate as part of their
58 V, 1 | pastoral plan. The Christian family, as a "domestic Church"
59 V, 1 | African tradition of the family, is called upon to be a
60 V, 1 | celebrating the Year of the Family with the rest of the international
61 V, 1 | Church understood as the Family of God, consecrated life
62 V, 1 | spirit of the Church as Family, mixed groups for consultation
63 V, 2 | expressing the Church as Family, where all devote "themselves
64 V, 2 | convictions about man, woman, family, work, economy, society,
65 VI, 0 | places. The Church as the Family of God in Africa must bear
66 VI, 0 | linked together. As God's Family on earth, the Church should
67 VI, 0 | called to belong to the same family redeemed by Christ's Blood,
68 VI, 1 | duties in building up the family and in taking full part
69 VII, 0 | own homeland, culture and family, and a special ability to
70 VII, 0 | destined to form one sole family according to God's plan
71 Conclu, 0| the Church~which is the Family of the Father,~the Brotherhood
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