La familia cristiana: concepto e importancia

La primera de todas

Both la gran prole humana, y cada una de las familias que habrían de componerla, is one of the natural instruments willed by God to cooperate in his creative mission.

God's will to count on the family in his saving plan will be confirmed with the fulfillment of the divine plan. When Jesus is born, in Nazareth, of Mary, by the work of the Holy Spirit. And God provides for his Son a family, with an adoptive father, Joseph, and with Mary, the virginal Mother. The Lord wanted that, also in this, the way in which He wishes to see His children born and grow up, the human beings, be reflected:.

"What does the simple and admirable life of the Holy Family teach us?" To this question suggested by St. Josemaría, we can answer with words from the Catechism, pointing out that la familia cristiana, a imagen de la de Jesús, es también iglesia doméstica because it manifests the united and familial nature of the Church as the family of God.

La de Nazaret es la modelo en la que todas las del mundo pueden hallar su sólido punto de referencia and a strong inspiration dice el papa Francisco

La importancia 

Every family has a sacred entityand deserves the veneration and solicitude of its members, of civil society and of the Church. Both by its natural and supernatural mission, by its origin, by its nature and by its end, the dignity of the Christian family is great.

El hogar ha de ser la escuela primera y principal donde los hijos aprendan y vivan las virtudes humanas y cristianas. El buen ejemplo de los padres, de los hermanos y de los demás componentes se refleja en la configuración de las relaciones sociales que cada uno de los miembros establece. The family reality establishes rights and duties.

At the time of the life of society, it is particularly urgent to volver a inculcar el sentido cristiano or in the heart of so many homes. The task is not a simple one, but it is an exciting one. To contribute to this immense task, which is identified with that of giving a Christian tone to society, each one of us must begin by "sweeping" our own house.

El año de Amoris Laetitia

Por esto surge esta iniciativa del papa Francisco, que se propone llegar a todos los hogares del mundo a través de diferentes propuestas. Surge de la experiencia de la pandemia. En ella se ha puesto de relieve el papel central del hogar cristiano como Iglesia doméstica y la importancia de los lazos comunitarios entre ellos, que hacen de la Iglesia una “familia de familias” AL 87.

Bishops' Conferences, Dioceses, Parishes, Ecclesial Movements, Family Associations, but especially Christian families from all over the world are invited to participate and are the protagonists with new proposals.

The Pope also recalled that, in imitation of the Holy Family, "we are called to rediscover the educational value of the family nucleus, which must be based on love that always regenerates relationships, opening horizons of hope.".

Esta fiesta «nos presenta el ideal del amor conyugal y familiar, tal y como quedó subrayado en la Exhortación apostólica Amoris laetitia".

Amoris Laetitia resumen

1. "To make you experience that el Evangelio es alegría que llena el corazón and the whole of life" (AL 200). A family that discovers and experiences the joy of having a gift and being in turn a gift for the Church and society, "can become a light in the darkness of the world" (AL 66). And today's world needs this light!
2. Announce that the sacrament of marriage is a gift and has in itself a transforming force of human love. For this, it is necessary that pastors and families walk together in a pastoral co-responsibility and complementarity among the different vocations in the Church (cf. AL 203).
3. Hacer a las familias protagonistas de la pastoral. Para ello se requiere “un esfuerzo evangelizador y catequístico dirigido a ellas” (AL 200), since a Christian family also becomes a missionary family.
4. Concienciar los jóvenes of the importance of formation in the truth of love and self-giving, with initiatives dedicated to them.
5. Ampliar la mirada y la acción de la pastoral to become transversal, to include spouses, children, young people, the elderly and situations of family fragility.

"Christian family life is a vocation and a path to holiness, an expression of the 'most beautiful face of the Church' (Gaudete et exsultate 9)."

Recomendación para vivir 

The Pontiff has recommended a series of actions so that the family can experience a sincere communion and live deeply this year Amoris Laetitia

• Mantener «deep and pure affections".
• Hacer prevalecer «forgiveness over discord». Nunca terminar la jornada sin hacer las paces
• May "the daily hardness of life be softened by mutual tenderness and by serene adherence to the will of God".

In this way, Francisco pointed out, "the family se abre a la alegría que Dios da a todos aquellos que saben dar con alegría"But she also "finds the spiritual energy to open herself to the outside world, to others, to the service of her brothers and sisters, to collaboration in the construction of an ever new and better world; capable, therefore, of being the bearer of positive stimuli; evangelizing by the example of her life".

Así mismo, ha vuelto a enunciar las tres palabras que siempre tienen que prevalecer: permiso, gracias y disculpa. «Permiso para no ser invasivo en la vida de los demás, después gracias, gracias de tantas ayudas y servicios que hacemos; agradecer siempre, pero la gratitud es la sangre del alma noble y luego la más difícil de pronunciar: disculpa». Porque como ha dicho el Papa: «siempre hacemos cosas feas y alguien se puede sentir ofendido».