YOUCAT Catechism + Catechism of the Catholic Church Lesson 368
Ave Maria series
368 What place does the family have in God’s plan of creation?
A man and a woman who are married to each other form, together with their children, a family. God wills that the love of the spouses, if possible, should produce children. These children, who are entrusted to the protection and care of their parents, have the same dignity as their parents. [2201-2206, 2249]
Holding a one-candle square cake on her lap, visiting Grandmother Rose makes a birthday wish while two of her grandchildren, son and daughter-in-law observe the event.…..368
God himself, in the depths of the Trinity, is communion. In the human sphere, the family is the primordial image of communion. The family is the unique school of living in relationships. Nowhere do children grow up as well as in an intact family, in which they experience heartfelt affection, mutual respect, and responsibility for one another. Finally, faith grows in the family, too; the family is, the Church tells us, a miniature church, a “domestic church”, the radiance of which should invite others into this fellowship of faith, charity, and hope.
“The family is a necessary good for peoples, an indispensable foundation for society and a great and lifelong treasure for couples. It is a unique good for children, who are meant to be the fruit of the love, of the total and generous self-giving of their parents.” Pope Benedict XVI, July 8, 2006
“The family that prays together, stays together.” Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C, Irish priest, promoter of the Rosary
“Tuberculosis and cancer are not the most terrible sicknesses. I think that a much more terrible sickness is to be unwanted and unloved.” Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
[2201-2206, 2249]
THE FAMILY IN GOD'S PLAN
2201 The conjugal community is established upon the consent of the spouses. Marriage and the family are ordered to the good of the spouses and to the procreation and education of children. The love of the spouses and the begetting of children create among members of the same family personal relationships and primordial responsibilities. –Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition
2202 A man and a woman united in marriage, together with their children, form a family. This institution is prior to any recognition by public authority, which has an obligation to recognize it. It should be considered the normal reference point by which the different forms of family relationship are to be evaluated. –CCC
2203 In creating man and woman, God instituted the human family and endowed it with its fundamental constitution. Its members are persons equal in dignity. For the common good of its members and of society, the family necessarily has manifold responsibilities, rights, and duties. –CCC
2204 "The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason it can and should be called a domestic church."(Familiaris Consortio 21; compare Lumen et Gentium 11.)9 It is a community of faith, hope, and charity; it assumes singular importance in the Church, as is evident in the New Testament.(Compare Ephesians 5:21b: 4; Colossians 3:18-21; 1 Peter 3:1-7.)10–CCC
2205 The Christian family is a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit. In the procreation and education of children it reflects the Father's work of creation. It is called to partake of the prayer and sacrifice of Christ. Daily prayer and the reading of the Word of God strengthen it in charity. The Christian family has an evangelizing and missionary task. –CCC
2206 The relationships within the family bring an affinity of feelings, affections and interests, arising above all from the members' respect for one another. The family is a privileged community called to achieve a "sharing of thought and common deliberation by the spouses as well as their eager cooperation as parents in the children's upbringing."(Gaudium et Spes 52 § 1.)11–CCC
IN BRIEF
2249 The conjugal community is established upon the covenant and consent of the spouses. Marriage and family are ordered to the good of the spouses, to the procreation and the education of children. –CCC
Family Bragg Rose birthday
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