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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\"Let us begin, then,\" concluded the Prefect of the Dicastery, \"this Year by seeking to have towards families the attitude of paternity that we learn from St. Joseph, a paternity composed of welcome, strength, obedience and work. At the same time, let us try to be more and more a 'mother' Church for families, tender and attentive to their needs, capable of listening, but also courageous and always firm in the Holy Spirit\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New impetus for family ministry<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The intervention of Prof. Gabriella Gambino, Undersecretary of the Dicastery, focused more on concrete questions of the pastoral care of the family. \"This year,\" she said, \"is an occasion to give a boost to pastoral care of the family, trying to renew the modalities, strategies and perhaps even some objectives of pastoral planning: no longer a pastoral care of failures, says the Holy Father in Amoris Laetitia, but a pastoral care that knows how to revalue the beauty of the sacrament of marriage and of Christian families.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Revaluing the encyclical<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Professor Gambino encouraged us to reread Amoris laetitia in order to rediscover the full value of the document and of family pastoral care, and not to govern marriage and family accompaniment by the mere criterion of \"can or cannot\". <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"The Pope has repeatedly explained that if Amoris Laetitia is read exclusively with the criterion of \"can do or can't do\" one goes astray and fails to grasp its true purpose. Unfortunately, in recent years, reflection and debate have focused on only part of the document. In this Year, therefore, Amoris Laetitia must be read as a \"whole\" and greater value must be given to all the spiritual and pastoral aspects contained in the document, to which perhaps little importance has been given and which are then the ones that most interest the vast majority of families\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cross-cutting projects<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Gambino recalled that the Dicastery itself has proposed twelve paths for renewing the pastoral care of the family: \"The criterion: to make pastoral projects transversal, so that there are no longer watertight compartments. The accompaniment of children, young people, engaged couples and the elderly must be done in the light of an integral and unified vision of pastoral planning, which can be a source of great creativity. To put in dialogue the pastoral agents of the different areas, acting in a synodal spirit, is important to give continuity and gradualness to the path of growth in the faith of the laity\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A challenge for the Church<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
According to the undersecretary of the Dicastery, \"we must recognize that many ecclesiastical structures, perhaps without being fully aware of it, are rather oriented towards the elderly or the unmarried. This is therefore a great challenge for the Church. All pastoral agents, therefore, should take families more into account, go out to meet them, find new ways, new times and new spaces to establish a dialogue with them and attend to them\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He assured that the Dicastery will be diligently involved in the dissemination of some pastoral tools for families, parishes and dioceses, in order to help and support the sometimes very laborious work of the local Churches.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Por deseo e impulso del Santo Padre, ma\u00f1ana, solemnidad de San Jos\u00e9, dar\u00e1 inicio el A\u00f1o Especial \u00abFamilia Amoris laetitia\u00bb, con ocasi\u00f3n del quinto aniversario de la publicaci\u00f3n de la enc\u00edclica. El anuncio sobre la familia En la rueda de prensa de presentaci\u00f3n llevado a cabo desde la Sala Stampa de la Santa Sede v\u00eda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":10259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,51],"tags":[599],"class_list":["post-10254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-vaticano","tag-familia"],"yoast_head":"\n