Mercy Family Style: Our Salvation and Our Hope
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Prayer
In good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, we belong to each other as we belong to you, God ever faithful. By morning and by night may your name be on our lips, a blessing to all our days: so may your kindness and patience be ever among us, a hunger for justice, and songs of thankfulness in all we do. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Familiaris Consortio
- "The Family in the Modern World" in response to the 1980 synod
- The family is the "Domestic Church"
- Parents are key as the first evangelizers of their children (family is key to a healthy society)
- "Become what you are."
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4 Tasks of the Family
- Forming a community of persons
- Serving life
- Participating in the development of society
- Sharing in the life of the Church
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Synod 2015
Go home to your friends,and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and...
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The truth is incarnated in human fragility not to condemn it, but to cure it.
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The joyous testimony of spouses and family is key to evangelization.
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Parents always influence the moral development of their children, for better or worse.
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Parents need to consider what they want their children exposed to...
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What is most important is the ability lovingly to help them grow in freedom, maturity, overall discipline and real autonomy.
Obsession, however, is not education.
The real question, then, is not where are children are physically, or whom they are with at any given time, but rather where they are existentially, where they stand in terms of their convictions, goals, desires and dreams.
The real question, then, is not where are children are physically, or whom they are with at any given time, but rather where they are existentially, where they stand in terms of their convictions, goals, desires and dreams.
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Education...involves forming persons who readily understand that their own lives, and the life of the community, are in their hands, and that freedom is itself a great gift.
Prudence, good judgement and common sense...maturity are not genetic
Parents are responsible for instilling trust and loving respect
Physical or emotional absence creates greater hurt than any scolding
Parents are responsible for instilling trust and loving respect
Physical or emotional absence creates greater hurt than any scolding
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Parents are responsible for shaping the will of their children, fostering good habits and a natural inclination to goodness.
Desire to fit into society
Habit of forgoing immediate pleasure for the better
Form using active methods, inductively, allowing children to learn for themselves
A good ethical education includes showing a person that it is in their own interest to do what is right....rather than demand effort & sacrifice, point to the benefits
Habit of forgoing immediate pleasure for the better
Form using active methods, inductively, allowing children to learn for themselves
A good ethical education includes showing a person that it is in their own interest to do what is right....rather than demand effort & sacrifice, point to the benefits
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Develop good habits.
Please
Thank you
Sorry
(TJ's comment of the military influence on manners getting him far at college.... Sir & mam)
Thank you
Sorry
(TJ's comment of the military influence on manners getting him far at college.... Sir & mam)
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Cultivate freedom
Moral education has to do with cultivating freedom through ideas, incentives, practical applications, stimuli, rewards, examples, models, symbols, reflections, encouragement, dialogue and a constant rethinking of our way of doing things; all these can help develop those stable interior principles that lead us spontaneously to do good.
Living virtues
Human dignity itself demands that each of us "act out of conscious and free choice, as moved and drawn in a personal way from within." (Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes, 17)
Train children to ask for forgiveness & repair harm done to others
Living virtues
Human dignity itself demands that each of us "act out of conscious and free choice, as moved and drawn in a personal way from within." (Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes, 17)
Train children to ask for forgiveness & repair harm done to others
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Parents do not need to be perfect
Humbly know their limitations
Eph 6:4. Parents, do not provoke your children.
Eph 6:4. Parents, do not provoke your children.
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Adolescents need help in the process of inner healing and in this way to grow in the ability to understand and live in peace with others and the larger community.
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Changing a child's behavior involves a gradual process & freedom needs to be channeled and stimulated
An action can be voluntary, but not free do to compulsion
- behavioral
- addiction
Need the help of others for rehabilitation
- behavioral
- addiction
Need the help of others for rehabilitation
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When children realize that they have to be responsible for themselves, their self-esteem is enriched.
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The family is the primary setting for socialization
The task of education is to help us make sense that the world and society are our home
Living side by side
Crossing paths
Helping one another
Ordinary things
Everyday the family has to come up with new ways of appreciating and acknowledging its members.
Living side by side
Crossing paths
Helping one another
Ordinary things
Everyday the family has to come up with new ways of appreciating and acknowledging its members.
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The family is the principal agent of an integral ecology
The principle of communion and the principle of fruitfulness
Rethink habits of consumption and care for the environment
Difficult times teach important lessons
- illness
If not, then there is hardness of heart
Difficult times teach important lessons
- illness
If not, then there is hardness of heart
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Media can help or hinder
Connect families who are separated by distance
Cannot replace the need for personal and direct dialogue
Be intentional in avoiding "technological disconnect"
Cannot replace the need for personal and direct dialogue
Be intentional in avoiding "technological disconnect"
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Christian communities are called to offer support to the educational mission of families.
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Positive and prudent sex education
Education for love, for mutual self-giving
Provide information while keeping in mind young people have not yet attained full maturity
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Teach them sensitivity to different expressions of love, mutual concern and care, loving respect and deeply meaningful communication.
Sexual attraction creates, for the moment, the illusion of union, yet, without love, this "union" leaves strangers as fare apart as they were before.
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Only by losing the fear of being different, can we be freed of self-centeredness and self-absorption.
It is also true that masculinity and femininity are not rigid categories.
- rigidity does not help young people appreciation genuine reciprocity incarnate in the real conditions of matrimony.
-rigidity hinders developments of individual's ability
- rigidity does not help young people appreciation genuine reciprocity incarnate in the real conditions of matrimony.
-rigidity hinders developments of individual's ability
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Home must continue to be the place where we learn to appreciate the meaning and beauty of the faith, to pray and to serve our neighbor.
Begins with baptism
Presumes parents genuinely trust God
Need to ask God to act in their hearts
We do not own the gift, but it's care is entrusted to us
Children need
-symbols
-actions
-stories
Rely on social science
-prayer, devotions, traditions in the home
-faith community relationships
-more =more
Presumes parents genuinely trust God
Need to ask God to act in their hearts
We do not own the gift, but it's care is entrusted to us
Children need
-symbols
-actions
-stories
Rely on social science
-prayer, devotions, traditions in the home
-faith community relationships
-more =more
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Children who grew up in missionary families often become missionaries themselves; growing up in warm and friendly families, they learn to relate to the world in this way, without giving up their faith or their convictions.
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The family is thus an agent of pastoral activity through its explicit proclamation of the Gospel and its legacy of varied forms of witness, namely solidarity with the poor, openness to a diversity of people, the protection of creation, moral and material solidarity with other families, including those most in need, commitment to the promotion of the common good and the transformation of unjust social structures, beginning in the territory in which the family lives, through the practice of the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
All of us should be able to say, thanks to the experience of our life in the family: "We come to believe in the love that God has for us". Only on the basis of this experience will the Church's pastoral care for families enable them to be both domestic churches and a leaven of evangelization in society.
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