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CLE MARRIAGE

The role of the Family

Family is considered as a small unit of Society.

It is the seedbed where values of love, faith, hope, respect, and obedience among others are nurtured.

Caring and Loving

Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.

Obedient and Respectful

“Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them.

Amoris Laetitia

The joy of love

Amoris Laetitia

the joy of the Church

experienced by families

Paul’s advice

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Parents do not be resentful to your children, or they will become discouraged.

Covenant-

an agreement with God

A. Covenant Relationship

➢ Man and woman are created for one another to unite and become one flesh through the example of Adam and Eve

➢ The communion of love that grounds their Marriage and family life

➢ The truth that there's more to the daily acts, talk, and events in family and “that more is love”

➢ The ultimate source of love is God

B. Christian Family

➢ Family is the Church in the home; the basic unit of Christian life

➢ Family is the first School of discipleship

➢ It is where we come to exercise the daily Christian values of generous self-giving in active charity, forgiveness and obedience in prayer and thanksgiving.

C. First and vital cell of Society

➢ The family continually nourishes the existence and development of society

➢ The communion and sharing of the family represents it's first and fundamental contribution to society.

➢ The family constitutes an irreplaceable School in developing, guarding, and transmitting the social values.

➢ The family must not live closed in onself,

but must remain open to community.

Filial Respect for Parents

We owe our respect and obedience because of their gifts of life to us. Filial respect promotes harmony in our family life.

In family relationships, filial respect for parents is demanded of children and adults by the fourth commandment.

obedience cannot mean the automatic, unquestioning submissiveness that some Filipino parents seem to hold up as the Christian ideal for their children.