[8] But I said, 'Certainly not, sir, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.' [9] But a second time a voice from heaven answered, 'What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.' [10] This happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into the sky. [11] Just then three men appeared at the house where we were, who had been sent to me from Caesarea. [12] The Spirit told me to accompany them without discriminating. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house. [13] He related to us how he had seen (the) angel standing in his house, saying, 'Send someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, [14] who will speak words to you by which you and all your household will be saved.' [15] As I began to speak, the holy Spirit fell upon them as it had upon us at the beginning,
(CCC 1657) It is here that the father of the family, the mother, children, and all members of the family exercise the priesthood of the baptized in a privileged way "by the reception of the sacraments, prayer and thanksgiving, the witness of a holy life, and self-denial and active charity" (LG 10). Thus the home is the first school of Christian life and "a school for human enrichment" (GS 52 § 1). Here one learns endurance and the joy of work, fraternal love, generous - even repeated - forgiveness, and above all divine worship in prayer and the offering of one's life. (Acts 11, 8-15).
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