Part, Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro, 0,1 | Church at the Service of the Family ~1. The family in the modern
2 Intro, 0,1 | Service of the Family ~1. The family in the modern world, as
3 Intro, 0,1 | of the institution of the family. Others have become uncertain
4 Intro, 0,1 | and truth of conjugal and family life. Finally, there are
5 Intro, 0,1 | Knowing that marriage and the family constitute one of the most
6 Intro, 0,1 | value of marriage and the family and seek to live it faithfully,
7 Intro, 0,1 | from living freely their family lives. Supporting the first,
8 Intro, 0,1 | destiny of marriage and the family.(1)~In a particular way
9 Intro, 0,1 | journey towards marriage and family life, for the purpose of
10 Intro, 0,2 | interest of the Church in the family was the last Synod of Bishops,
11 Intro, 0,2 | Synods(2): the Christian family, in fact, is the first community
12 Intro, 0,2 | educating community, the family must help man to discern
13 Intro, 0,2 | Church's lively care for the family and to give suitable indications
14 Intro, 0,2 | Pontifical Council for the Family with instructions to study
15 Intro, 0,3 | Value of Marriage and of the Family ~3. Illuminated by the faith
16 Intro, 0,3 | value of marriage and the family and their deepest meaning,
17 Intro, 0,3 | places in marriage and in the family capable of being fulfilled.~
18 Intro, 0,3 | creation,(3) marriage and the family are interiorly ordained
19 Intro, 0,3 | of history in which the family is the object of numerous
20 Intro, 0,3 | tied to the good of the family,(7) the Church perceives
21 Intro, 0,3 | God for marriage and the family, ensuring their full vitality
22 I | SPOTS AND SHADOWS FOR THE FAMILY TODAY ~
23 I, 0,4 | plan for marriage and the family touches men and women in
24 I, 0,4 | within which marriage and the family are lived today, in order
25 I, 0,4 | mystery of marriage and the family by the circumstances, the
26 I, 0,4 | affect their married and family life. These views are often
27 I, 0,5 | dignity of marriage and the family may be preserved and realized.~
28 I, 0,5 | in their daily social and family life."(12) The laity, moreover,
29 I, 0,5 | their marriage and their family life. They are qualified
30 I, 0,6 | The Situation of the Family in the World Today ~6. The
31 I, 0,6 | The situation in which the family finds itself presents positive
32 I, 0,6 | ecclesial mission proper to the family and its responsibility for
33 I, 0,6 | concrete difficulties that the family itself experiences in the
34 I, 0,6 | plan for marriage and the family, but as an autonomous power
35 I, 0,6 | historical situation in which the family lives therefore appears
36 I, 0,7 | the critical conscience of family culture and as active agents
37 I, 0,7 | building of an authentic family humanism.~Among the more
38 I, 0,8 | applied to the problems of the family: "Our era needs such wisdom
39 I, 0,9 | world-and often hindering the family's full realization of itself
40 I, 0,10 | context of marriage and the family as well as in other fields.~
41 I, 0,10 | God for marriage and the family: it "went back to the beginning,"
42 II | GOD FOR MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY ~
43 II, 0,14 | the wider community of the family, since the very institution
44 II, 0,14 | of God, "from whom every family in heaven and on earth is
45 II, 0,15 | The Family, a Communion of Persons ~
46 II, 0,15 | In matrimony and in the family a complex of interpersonal
47 II, 0,15 | introduced into the "human family" and into the "family of
48 II, 0,15 | human family" and into the "family of God," which is the Church. ~
49 II, 0,15 | marriage and the Christian family build up the Church: for
50 II, 0,15 | up the Church: for in the family the human person is not
51 II, 0,15 | also introduced into God's family, which is the Church.~The
52 II, 0,15 | is the Church.~The human family, disunited by sin, is reconstituted
53 II, 0,15 | introduced into the great family of the Church.~The commandment
54 II, 0,15 | Church thus finds in the family, born from the sacrament,
55 II, 0,16 | in the realization of the family according to God's plan. ~
56 III | THE ROLE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY ~
57 III, 0,17 | Family, Become What You Are ~17.
58 III, 0,17 | Become What You Are ~17. The family finds in the plan of God
59 III, 0,17 | role that God calls the family to perform in history derives
60 III, 0,17 | history derives from what the family is; its role represents
61 III, 0,17 | development of what it is. Each family finds within itself a summons
62 III, 0,17 | and its responsibility: family, become what you are.~Accordingly,
63 III, 0,17 | you are.~Accordingly, the family must go back to the "beginning"
64 III, 0,17 | life and love,"(44) the family has the mission to become
65 III, 0,17 | essence and role of the family are in the final analysis
66 III, 0,17 | specified by love. Hence the family has the mission to guard,
67 III, 0,17 | Every particular task of the family is an expressive and concrete
68 III, 0,17 | the unique riches of the family's mission and probe its
69 III, 0,17 | four general tasks for the family:~1) forming a community
70 III, 1,18 | Power of Communion ~18. The family, which is founded and given
71 III, 1,18 | is love: without love the family is not a community of persons
72 III, 1,18 | same way, without love the family cannot live, grow and perfect
73 III, 1,18 | and especially within the family as such: "Man cannot live
74 III, 1,18 | inner dynamism leading the family to ever deeper and more
75 III, 1,18 | community of marriage and the family. ~
76 III, 1,21 | Broader Communion of the Family ~21. Conjugal communion
77 III, 1,21 | broader communion of the family, of parents and children,
78 III, 1,21 | different members of the family constitutes the interior
79 III, 1,21 | shapes and animates the family communion and community.~
80 III, 1,21 | community.~The Christian family is also called to experience
81 III, 1,21 | Church of God. The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation
82 III, 1,21 | 58)~All members of the family, each according to his or
83 III, 1,21 | communion of persons, making the family "a school of deeper humanity"(
84 III, 1,21 | authentically human and Christian family.(61) They will be aided
85 III, 1,21 | receive from their children.~Family communion can only be preserved
86 III, 1,21 | reconciliation. There is no family that does not know how selfishness,
87 III, 1,21 | varied forms of division in family life. But, at the same time,
88 III, 1,21 | at the same time, every family is called by the God of
89 III, 1,21 | offers to the Christian family the grace and the responsibility
90 III, 1,22 | community of persons, the family finds in love the source
91 III, 1,22 | authenticity of conjugal and family relationships consists in
92 III, 1,22 | rights and role within the family and society. In the same
93 III, 1,22 | proper to marriage and the family. What human reason intuitively
94 III, 1,23 | in the specific area of family life a widespread social
95 III, 1,23 | value of their maternal and family role, by comparison with
96 III, 1,23 | bond between work and the family, and therefore the original
97 III, 1,23 | their full time to their own family.~Furthermore, the mentality
98 III, 1,23 | for their work within the family must be overcome. This requires
99 III, 1,23 | for the good of all, the family, the Church and society.~
100 III, 1,23 | activity, whether in the family or outside of it, without
101 III, 1,25 | Within the conjugal and family communion-community, the
102 III, 1,25 | less concerned with his family or at any rate less involved
103 III, 1,25 | the father in and for the family is of unique and irreplaceable
104 III, 1,25 | notable difficulties in family relationships, as does,
105 III, 1,25 | the development of healthy family relationships.~In revealing
106 III, 1,25 | of all the members of the family: he will perform this task
107 III, 1,25 | cause of division in the family but promotes its unity and
108 III, 1,26 | of Children ~26. In the family, which is a community of
109 III, 1,26 | belong and of the whole human family. Concern for the child,
110 III, 1,26 | particular of the Christian family: thus children, while they
111 III, 1,26 | contribution to building up the family community and even to the
112 III, 1,27 | The Elderly in the Family ~27. There are cultures
113 III, 1,27 | being outcasts from the family or merely tolerated as a
114 III, 1,27 | and responsible part in family life, though having to respect
115 III, 1,27 | the autonomy of the new family; above all they carry out
116 III, 1,27 | in particular within the family. In fact, "the life of the
117 III, 2,28 | fundamental task of the family is to serve life, to actualize
118 III, 2,28 | the whole meaning of the family life which results from
119 III, 2,28 | enlarge and enrich His own family day by day."(82)~However,
120 III, 2,31 | field of marriage or the family involves obscuring to a
121 III, 2,31 | meritorious service to the family and humanity. ~
122 III, 2,33 | discipline bestows upon family life fruits of serenity
123 III, 2,34 | sacrifice cannot be removed from family life, but must in fact be
124 III, 2,34 | and lay people engaged in family pastoral work: they will
125 III, 2,36 | devolves on parents to create a family atmosphere so animated with
126 III, 2,36 | the children. Hence, the family is the first school of those
127 III, 2,37 | those in most need. The family is the first and fundamental
128 III, 2,37 | generations living together in the family. And the communion and sharing
129 III, 2,38 | of baptized people, the family, called together by word
130 III, 2,39 | mission of the Christian family as a true ministry through
131 III, 2,39 | transmitted and radiated, so that family life itself becomes an itinerary
132 III, 2,39 | following Christ. Within a family that is aware of this gift,
133 III, 2,40 | Educating Agents ~40. The family is the primary but not the
134 III, 2,40 | educational role of the Christian family therefore has a very important
135 III, 2,40 | taught in the schools, the family must join with other families,
136 III, 2,40 | families, if possible through family associations, and with all
137 III, 2,40 | faith. In this case the family needs special assistance
138 III, 2,41 | spiritual fecundity of the family, since it is an act of obedience
139 III, 2,41 | but as members of the one family of God's children. Christian
140 III, 2,41 | warmth of affection of a family, these children will be
141 III, 2,41 | the same time the whole family will be enriched with the
142 III, 2,41 | values of a wider fraternity. Family fecundity must have an unceasing "
143 III, 3,42 | The Family as the First and Vital Cell
144 III, 3,42 | basis of human society," the family is "the first and vital
145 III, 3,42 | cell of society."(105)~The family has vital and organic links
146 III, 3,42 | to life: it is from the family that citizens come to birth
147 III, 3,42 | birth and it is within the family that they find the first
148 III, 3,42 | closed in on itself, the family is by nature and vocation
149 III, 3,43 | Family Life as an Experience of
150 III, 3,43 | should characterize the family's daily life represents
151 III, 3,43 | between the members of the family community are inspired and
152 III, 3,43 | between persons within the family is the first and irreplaceable
153 III, 3,43 | dialogue and love.~The family is thus, as the Synod Fathers
154 III, 3,43 | Vatican Council states, in the family "the various generations
155 III, 3,43 | drugs and even terrorism-the family possesses and continues
156 III, 3,44 | The social role of the family certainly cannot stop short
157 III, 3,44 | social contribution of the family has an original character
158 III, 3,44 | efforts to ensure that every family has its own home, as the
159 III, 3,44 | special way the Christian family is called upon to listen
160 III, 3,44 | rights and duties of the family. Along these lines, families
161 III, 3,44 | protagonists" of what is known as "family politics" and assume responsibility
162 III, 3,44 | also holds good for the family as such."(110) ~
163 III, 3,45 | Society at the Service of the Family ~45. Just as the intimate
164 III, 3,45 | intimate connection between the family and society demands that
165 III, 3,45 | society demands that the family be open to and participate
166 III, 3,45 | respecting and fostering the family. ~The family and society
167 III, 3,45 | fostering the family. ~The family and society have complementary
168 III, 3,45 | State-must recognize that "the family is a society in its own
169 III, 3,45 | in its relations with the family to adhere to the principle
170 III, 3,45 | conviction that the good of the family is an indispensable and
171 III, 3,46 | The Charter of Family Rights ~46. The ideal of
172 III, 3,46 | development between the family and society is often very
173 III, 3,46 | inviolable rights of the family and of the human person;
174 III, 3,46 | itself at the service of the family, attacks it violently in
175 III, 3,46 | fundamental requirements. Thus the family, which in God's plan is
176 III, 3,46 | defends the rights of the family against the intolerable
177 III, 3,46 | following rights of the family:~ the right to exist and
178 III, 3,46 | exist and progress as a family, that is to say, the right
179 III, 3,46 | she is poor, to found a family and to have adequate means
180 III, 3,46 | and to educate children; family life; the right to the
181 III, 3,46 | intimacy of conjugal and family life; the right to the
182 III, 3,46 | children in accordance with the family's own traditions and religious
183 III, 3,46 | housing suitable for living family life in a proper way; the
184 III, 3,46 | in order to fulfill the family's role suitably and expeditiously;
185 III, 3,46 | a kind that also fosters family values; the right of the
186 III, 3,46 | the right to emigrate as a family in search of a better life.(
187 III, 3,46 | Charter of Rights of the Family, to be presented to the
188 III, 3,47 | The Christian Family's Grace and Responsibility ~
189 III, 3,47 | role that belongs to every family pertains by a new and original
190 III, 3,47 | original right to the Christian family, which is based on the sacrament
191 III, 3,47 | stimulates them.~The Christian family is thus called upon to offer
192 III, 3,47 | victims and those who have no family. ~
193 III, 3,48 | questions nowadays, the family has seen its role with regard
194 III, 3,48 | scale Church," the Christian family is called upon, like the "
195 III, 4,49 | The Family, Within the Mystery of the
196 III, 4,49 | fundamental tasks of the Christian family is its ecclesial task: the
197 III, 4,49 | its ecclesial task: the family is placed at the service
198 III, 4,49 | Church and the Christian family and establishing the family
199 III, 4,49 | family and establishing the family as a "Church in miniature" (
200 III, 4,49 | that in its own way the family is a living image and historical
201 III, 4,49 | builds up the Christian family, by putting into effect
202 III, 4,49 | reveals to the Christian family its true identity, what
203 III, 4,49 | strengthens the Christian family with the grace of Christ
204 III, 4,49 | and guides the Christian family to the service of love,
205 III, 4,49 | In turn, the Christian family is grafted into the mystery
206 III, 4,49 | way, while the Christian family is a fruit and sign of the
207 III, 4,50 | Role ~50. The Christian family is called upon to take part
208 III, 4,50 | society.~Since the Christian family is a community in which
209 III, 4,50 | and the sacraments, the family's sharing in the Church'
210 III, 4,50 | parents and children as a family, must live their service
211 III, 4,50 | communities.~The Christian family also builds up the Kingdom
212 III, 4,50 | 118) that the Christian family's participation in the prophetic,
213 III, 4,50 | mission of the Christian family in the Church and for the
214 III, 4,50 | too. Thus the Christian family, which springs from marriage
215 III, 4,50 | of the Church. This the family will do by the mutual love
216 III, 4,50 | which all the members of the family work together."(119)~Having
217 III, 4,50 | participation of the Christian family in the Church's mission,
218 III, 4,50 | presenting the Christian family as 1) a believing and evangelizing
219 III, 4,51 | 1. The Christian Family as a Believing and Evangelizing
220 III, 4,51 | Awareness of God's Plan for the Family ~51. As a sharer in the
221 III, 4,51 | confidently,(120) the Christian family fulfills its prophetic role
222 III, 4,51 | News-of their conjugal and family life sanctified and made
223 III, 4,51 | to raise marriage and the family, making them a sign and
224 III, 4,51 | married couple and of the family. God, who called the couple
225 III, 4,51 | Church in the particular family, social and ecclesial situation
226 III, 4,51 | part of the conjugal and family community must take place
227 III, 4,52 | The Christian Family's Ministry of Evangelization ~
228 III, 4,52 | extent in which the Christian family accepts the Gospel and matures
229 III, 4,52 | listen again to Paul VI: "The family, like the Church, ought
230 III, 4,52 | the Gospel radiates. In a family which is conscious of this
231 III, 4,52 | lived by them. And such a family becomes the evangelizer
232 III, 4,52 | apostolic mission of the family is rooted in Baptism and
233 III, 4,52 | Particularly today, the Christian family has a special vocation to
234 III, 4,52 | account: "The Christian family loudly proclaims both the
235 III, 4,52 | 125)~The absolute need for family catechesis emerges with
236 III, 4,53 | characteristics typical of family life itself, which should
237 III, 4,53 | daily witness.(127)~The family must educate the children
238 III, 4,53 | received from God. Indeed, the family that is open to transcendent
239 III, 4,53 | apostle, so in the Christian family parents must face with courage
240 III, 4,54 | creation."(129)~The Christian family's faith and evangelizing
241 III, 4,54 | exercised even within the family. This happens when some
242 III, 4,54 | when some member of the family does not have the faith
243 III, 4,54 | received. The Christian family is called to enlighten "
244 III, 4,54 | 136) ~2. The Christian Family as a Community in Dialogue
245 III, 4,55 | Covenant.(137)~The Christian family too is part of this priestly
246 III, 4,55 | nourishment, the Christian family is continuously vivified
247 III, 4,55 | role which the Christian family can and ought to exercise
248 III, 4,55 | realities of married and family life. In this way the Christian
249 III, 4,55 | In this way the Christian family is called to be sanctified
250 III, 4,56 | fulfill their conjugal and family obligations, they are penetrated
251 III, 4,56 | proper to their conjugal and family life.(140) This gives rise
252 III, 4,56 | and profound conjugal and family spirituality that draws
253 III, 4,56 | live in their married and family lives the very love of God
254 III, 4,57 | Eucharist ~57. The Christian family's sanctifying role is grounded
255 III, 4,57 | of Christian marriage and family life, it is altogether necessary
256 III, 4,57 | of charity the Christian family finds the foundation and
257 III, 4,57 | members of the Christian family become one body, which reveals
258 III, 4,57 | dynamism for the Christian family. ~
259 III, 4,58 | permanent part of the Christian family's sanctifying role consists
260 III, 4,58 | saints." The Christian family too is sometimes unfaithful
261 III, 4,58 | the bosom of the Christian family, so much a part of daily
262 III, 4,58 | special significance for family life. While they discover
263 III, 4,58 | and the communion of the family, the married couple and
264 III, 4,58 | the other members of the family are led to an encounter
265 III, 4,58 | marriage covenant and the family communion.~
266 III, 4,59 | Family Prayer ~59. The Church prays
267 III, 4,59 | prays for the Christian family and educates the family
268 III, 4,59 | family and educates the family to live in generous accord
269 III, 4,59 | mission for the spouses and family by which their daily lives
270 III, 4,59 | Christ, in the Holy Spirit.~Family prayer has its own characteristic
271 III, 4,59 | members of the Christian family in a special way: "Again
272 III, 4,59 | the midst of them."(150)~Family prayer has for its very
273 III, 4,59 | for its very own object family life itself, which in all
274 III, 4,59 | loving intervention in the family's history. They should be
275 III, 4,59 | trusting abandonment of the family into the hands of their
276 III, 4,59 | responsibility of the Christian family as the domestic Church can
277 III, 4,60 | particularly in the Christian family, enriched by the grace and
278 III, 4,60 | the saints Do you say the family rosary together? And you,
279 III, 4,61 | extending it into personal, family and social life. Hence the
280 III, 4,61 | members of the Christian family in the celebration of the
281 III, 4,61 | possibility for the Christian family when it listed the family
282 III, 4,61 | family when it listed the family among those groups to whom
283 III, 4,61 | Likewise, the Christian family will strive to celebrate
284 III, 4,61 | the home, the Christian family makes use of private prayer,
285 III, 4,61 | strongly the recitation of the family rosary.... There is no doubt
286 III, 4,61 | common that the Christian family is invited to recite. We
287 III, 4,61 | sincerely hope, that when the family gathering becomes a time
288 III, 4,61 | loving communion in the family and for developing conjugal
289 III, 4,61 | developing conjugal and family spirituality. For she who
290 III, 4,62 | incentive for the Christian family to assume and comply fully
291 III, 4,62 | society. Thus the Christian family's actual participation in
292 III, 4,62 | fruitfulness of the Christian family in its specific service
293 III, 4,62 | 158) ~3. The Christian Family ~
294 III, 4,63 | the Christian couple and family. Their guide and rule of
295 III, 4,63 | freedom. ~Thus, the Christian family is inspired and guide by
296 III, 4,64 | commandment of love, the Christian family welcomes, respects and serves
297 III, 4,64 | and wife and within the family, through a daily effort
298 III, 4,64 | community of which the Christian family is a part. Thanks to love
299 III, 4,64 | Thanks to love within the family, the Church can and ought
300 III, 4,64 | take on a more homelike or family dimension, developing a
301 III, 4,64 | served.~In order that the family may serve man in a truly
302 III, 4,64 | Church in love, the Christian family places itself at the service
303 III, 4,64 | families: "Another task for the family is to form persons in love
304 IV | FOUR ~PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY: STAGES, STRUCTURES, AGENTS
305 IV, 1 | OF PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY ~
306 IV, 1,65 | Accompanies the Christian Family on Its Journey Through Life ~
307 IV, 1,65 | other living reality, the family too is called upon to develop
308 IV, 1,65 | virtue of hope, the Christian family too shares, in communion
309 IV, 1,65 | Church in support of the family is a matter of urgency.
310 IV, 1,65 | develop pastoral care for the family, which should be treated
311 IV, 1,65 | closer to that model of a family which the Creator intended
312 IV, 1,65 | that it must follow the family, accompanying it step by
313 IV, 1,66 | people for marriage and family life. In some countries
314 IV, 1,66 | values concerning married and family life, and they do this through
315 IV, 1,66 | demand that not only the family but also society and the
316 IV, 1,66 | today noted with regret in family life derive from the fact
317 IV, 1,66 | have been well prepared for family life generally succeed better
318 IV, 1,66 | childhood, in that wise family training which leads children
319 IV, 1,66 | requisites for well-ordered family life, such as stable work,
320 IV, 1,66 | overlook preparation for the family apostolate, for fraternal
321 IV, 1,66 | Christian benefit of the family.~The immediate preparation
322 IV, 1,66 | marriage liturgy.~The Christian family and the whole of the ecclesial
323 IV, 1,66 | the Pastoral Care of the Family. In this they should lay
324 IV, 1,69 | the regularly established family signifies, in practice,
325 IV, 1,69 | mission. In order that the family may be ever more a true
326 IV, 1,69 | and in active sharing in family life.~This holds true especially
327 IV, 1,69 | experience of married and family life. Thus, within the ecclesial
328 IV, 1,69 | ecclesial community-the great family made up of Christian families-there
329 IV, 1,69 | spirit, this assistance from family to family will constitute
330 IV, 1,69 | assistance from family to family will constitute one of the
331 IV, 1,69 | married couple becomes a family in the full and specific
332 IV, 2 | II - STRUCTURES OF FAMILY PASTORAL CARE ~Pastoral
333 IV, 2 | her mission of salvation. Family pastoral care too-which
334 IV, 2,70 | the pastoral care of the family into practice. In this sense
335 IV, 2,70 | the pastoral care of the family. No plan for organized pastoral
336 IV, 2,70 | the pastoral care of the family.~Also to be seen in the
337 IV, 2,70 | study of the problems of the family. Institutes of this kind
338 IV, 2,70 | educational) to help the family. ~
339 IV, 2,71 | The Family ~71. But it is especially
340 IV, 2,71 | into this field of the family.~In this activity, married
341 IV, 2,71 | Church, who also work for the family, contributing their own
342 IV, 2,71 | through mutual help among family members for human and Christian
343 IV, 2,71 | on. The apostolate of the family will also become wider through
344 IV, 2,72 | the pastoral care of the family, mention should be made
345 IV, 2,72 | the pastoral care of the family. ~For this reason the Synod
346 IV, 2,72 | of the individual and the family, on both the national and
347 IV, 3 | THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY ~As well as the family,
348 IV, 3 | THE FAMILY ~As well as the family, which is the object but
349 IV, 3 | of pastoral care of the family, one must also mention the
350 IV, 3,73 | the pastoral care of the family is the Bishop. As father
351 IV, 3,73 | the pastoral care of the family. It will be his particular
352 IV, 3,73 | ever more truly a "diocesan family," a model and source of
353 IV, 3,73 | Pontifical Council for the Family is to be seen in this light:
354 IV, 3,73 | to pastoral care for the family in the world, and at the
355 IV, 3,73 | regarding marriage and the family. The same is true of deacons
356 IV, 3,73 | well. They must support the family in its difficulties and
357 IV, 3,73 | the light of faith; the family, as a Christian community,
358 IV, 3,73 | Theologians and experts in family matters can be of great
359 IV, 3,73 | content of the experience of family life. In this way the teaching
360 IV, 3,73 | the faith-also concerning family matters-belongs to the hierarchical
361 IV, 3,73 | theologians, experts in family matters and the Magisterium
362 IV, 3,74 | to the apostolate of the family by men and women religious
363 IV, 3,74 | as members of the larger family of God.~I would like to
364 IV, 3,74 | one-the apostolate of the family as one of the priority tasks,
365 IV, 3,75 | to the Confederation of Family Advisory Bureaus of Christian
366 IV, 3,75 | in doing to support the family is destined to have an effectiveness
367 IV, 3,75 | Church passes through the family."(170) ~
368 IV, 3,76 | the life and habits of the family and on the education of
369 IV, 3,76 | of looking at life, the family, religion and morality,
370 IV, 3,76 | use of the media in the family is carefully regulated.
371 IV, 3,76 | present in the right light family problems and their proper
372 IV, 3,76 | respect the needs of the family, and this sometimes presupposes
373 IV, 3,76 | anything that could harm the family in its existence, its stability,
374 IV, 4 | IV - PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY IN DIFFICULT CASES ~
375 IV, 4,77 | difficult problem is that of the family which is ideologically divided.
376 IV, 4,77 | believing members of the family to grow in faith and in
377 IV, 4,77 | circumstances in which the family needs the help of the ecclesial
378 IV, 4,77 | takes them away from their family; lack of understanding or
379 IV, 4,77 | widowhood, or the death of a family member, which breaks up
380 IV, 4,77 | transforms the original family nucleus.~Similarly, the
381 IV, 4,77 | spirituality of marriage and the family, aspects which take their
382 IV, 4,78 | credible witness within the family through his or her own life
383 IV, 4,78 | way to offer within his family a genuine witness to the
384 IV, 4,79 | solicitude to protect the family in all its dimensions, not
385 IV, 4,79 | very institution of the family and to society, of which
386 IV, 4,79 | to society, of which the family constitutes the basic cell. ~
387 IV, 4,81 | the institution of the family and the social and political
388 IV, 4,81 | destruction of the concept of the family; the weakening of the sense
389 IV, 4,81 | the witness of Christian family life, in such a way as to
390 IV, 4,81 | importance of marriage and the family. And since in many regions
391 IV, 4,81 | actions which will guarantee a family wage, by issuing directives
392 IV, 4,81 | ensuring housing fitting for family life and by creating opportunities
393 IV, 4,83 | solely to carrying out their family duties and the responsibilities
394 IV, 4,85 | Those Without a Family ~85. I wish to add a further
395 IV, 4,85 | called in the proper sense a family. Large sections of humanity
396 IV, 4,85 | practice to speak of a true family. There are others who, for
397 IV, 4,85 | exists a "good news of the family."~On behalf of those living
398 IV, 4,85 | those who have no natural family the doors of the great family
399 IV, 4,85 | family the doors of the great family which is the Church-the
400 IV, 4,85 | diocesan and the parish family, in ecclesial basic communities
401 IV, 4,85 | wider. No one is without a family in this world: the Church
402 IV, 4,85 | the Church is a home and family for everyone, especially
403 Conclu, 0,86| dynamic central nucleus of the family in the approaching third
404 Conclu, 0,86| thought to the fate of the family.~The future of humanity
405 Conclu, 0,86| humanity passes by way of the family.~It is therefore indispensable
406 Conclu, 0,86| and requirements of the family.~I feel that I must ask
407 Conclu, 0,86| the reality that is the family in this time of trial and
408 Conclu, 0,86| grace.~They must show the family special love. This is an
409 Conclu, 0,86| concrete action.~Loving the family means being able to appreciate
410 Conclu, 0,86| them always. Loving the family means identifying the dangers
411 Conclu, 0,86| overcome them. Loving the family means endeavoring to create
412 Conclu, 0,86| development. The modern Christian family is often tempted to be discouraged
413 Conclu, 0,86| the Good News about the family, for the family absolutely
414 Conclu, 0,86| about the family, for the family absolutely needs to hear
415 Conclu, 0,86| knows the path by which the family can reach the heart of the
416 Conclu, 0,86| through the Cross that the family can attain the fullness
417 Conclu, 0,86| will who are serving the family in accordance with their
418 Conclu, 0,86| devote themselves to the family's welfare, acting in the
419 Conclu, 0,86| integral advancement of the family.~And now, at the end of
420 Conclu, 0,86| fascinating roles of the Christian family, I wish to invoke the protection
421 Conclu, 0,86| the protection of the Holy Family of Nazareth.~Through God'
422 Conclu, 0,86| mysterious design, it was in that family that the Son of God spent
423 Conclu, 0,86| aid, may each Christian family really become a "little
424 Conclu, 0,86| I beg of Him that every family may generously make its
425 Conclu, 0,86| journeying.~I entrust each family to Him, to Mary, and to
426 Conclu, 0,86| the Gospel sheds on every family.~I assure you all of my
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