Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 271 - Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) What the Church is on a large scale, the family is on a
small scale: an image of God’s love in human fellowship. Indeed, every marriage
is perfected in openness to others, to the children that God sends, in mutual
acceptance, in hospitality and being for others.
A deepening through CCC
(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.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Nothing in the early Church fascinated
people more about the “New Way” of the Christians than their “domestic churches”.
Often someone “believed in the Lord, together with all his household; and many…
believed and were baptized” (Acts 18:8). In an unbelieving world, islands of
living faith were formed, places of prayer, mutual sharing, and cordial
hospitality. Rome, Corinth, Antioch, the great cities of antiquity, were soon
permeated with domestic churches that were like points of light. Even today
families in which Christ is at home are the leaven that renews our society.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1666) The
Christian home is the place where children receive the first proclamation of
the faith. For this reason the family home is rightly called "the domestic
church," a community of grace and prayer, a school of human virtues and of
Christian charity.
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