FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO

GROUP 5 BERMUDO, EBUA, EXCONDE, NAJARRO, PINEDA, OLEIYA

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO INTRODUCTION Familiaris Consortio (of family partnership) is a postsynodal Apostolic Exhortation written by Pope John Paul II and promulgated on November 22, 1981.

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to address the question of the human family and marriage, Familiaris Consortio (The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World) serves as a summary of the Churchs teachings on the nature and role of the Christian family and the sacrament of marriage.

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO INTRODUCTION

Its publication marks one of the most significant episodes in the Churchs teaching on marriage and family and can serve as the central source of insight and growth for Catholics today. It serves as a summary of the Churchs teachings on the nature and role of the Christian family and the sacrament of marriage and serves as the central source of insight and growth for Catholics today.

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO INTRODUCTION

The Encyclical is divided into four sections: Bright Spots and Shadows for the Family Today, The Plan of God for Marriage and the Family, The Role of the Christian Family and Pastoral Care of the Family: Stages, Structures, Agents, and Situations

BRIGHT SPOTS AND SHADOWS FOR THE FAMILY TODAY

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO I.
BRIGHT SPOTS AND SHADOWS FOR THE FAMILY TODAY In the first section, the encyclical addresses the need to take up the question of marriage in the light of the Churchs teaching, especially as our contemporary culture poses so many difficult questions to the modern Christian questions that have not appeared before in history.

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO I.

Married love, when considered from the perspective of Gods revelation, discloses to us the very depths of what it means to be a man or woman. Family and conjugal love, which gives rise to family, discloses to us the very character of what it means to be a human being, created in the image and likeness of God.

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO I.
The Need To Understand the Situation Since God's plan for marriage and the family touches men and women in the concreteness of their daily existence in specific social and cultural situations, the Church ought to apply herself to understanding the situations within which marriage and the family are lived today, in order to fulfill her task of serving.

Evangelical Discernment The Church does not accomplish this discernment only through the Pastors, who teach in the name and with the power of Christ but also through the laity: Christ "made them His witnesses and gave them understanding of the faith and the grace of speech (cf. Acts 2:17-18; Rv. 19:10), so that the power of the Gospel might shine forth in their daily social and family life."

THE PLAN OF GOD FOR MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO II.

THE PLAN OF GOD FOR MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY In parts two and three of the encyclical, the Holy Father develops his original thinking on this point. the love between the man and woman reveals the total gift of self, the complete and embodied offering of ones self to another that lies at the heart of our vocation as human beings. God created man in His own image and likeness, the Holy Father comments, calling him to existence through love; he called him at the same

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For this reason, the institution of marriage is not an undue interference by society or authority, nor the extrinsic imposition of a form. Rather it is an interior requirement of the covenant of conjugal love which is publicly affirmed as unique and exclusive, in order to live in complete fidelity to the plan of God, the Creator.

THE ROLE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO III.

THE ROLE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY

PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY: STAGES, STRUCTURES, AGENTS AND SITUATIONS

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO IV.

PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY: STAGES, STRUCTURES, AGENTS AND SITUATIONS