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Week 2 Loving Our Christian Family
Week 2 Loving Our Christian Family
Week 2 Loving Our Christian Family
Family
RECALL - Try to remember as vividly as you can a moment
when members of your family went out of their way to care for
you when you were little.
•Process Question:
•What is it that moves
my parents or
siblings to express
their selfless concern
for me?
Answer?
The Mysterious Force of
Love
Christian View of the Family
• As Christian disciples, we need to more
deeply understand and share with others the
Good News about the human family.
• For the family “to become what is”
(Familiaris Consortio 17), we need to reflect
the nature of the human family guided by
our Christian faith.
• According to Catechism of the Filipino
Catholics 1012 – 1020, the Christian family
can be described in three ways:
• As a Covenant of Relationship
• As a Domestic Church
The Christian Family as a
Covenant of Relationship, page
185-187
• The very essence of a family, the very glue, which
should hold a family together is love, not financial
status, achievement, looks, intelligence, or anything
else.
Process Questions:
• What sacrifices, big or small, have your parents done to
help you become the best person you can be?