my Family, my first Christian Community

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Why Am I a Catholic Family, my First Christian Community
The Emmaus Young Adult Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group Saturday 7.45pm-9.45pm, Room 2
Vision: • A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives. Mission: • to be disciples of Christ according to His heart, through ongoing conversion, sanctification, and mission. • to journey with the young people and to encounter Christ in each other. • to help the young people put the Eucharist as the source and summit of their Christian lives. • to help the young people build their lives upon the rock which is Jesus, the Word of God, and to live in the power of the Holy Spirit. • to build community of believers who is charismatic and missionary in nature.
Family, My First Community
A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
Outline
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Brief history from “the beginning” to today Family and the Church Fundamental mission of the family Role of children in a family Summary
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A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
Brief History from “the Beginning”
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God instituted marriage and family Fall of man Sins disrupt family
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Envy Lust, etc etc
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A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
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The Holy Family The reminder on “the beginning” Marriage as sacrament – mirroring Christ and the Church
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A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
Family and the Church
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Family, the Domestic Church (CCC1655–1657)
In our own time, in a world often alien and even hostile to faith, believing families are of primary importance as centers of living, radiant faith. For this reason the Second Vatican Council, using an ancient expression, calls the family the Ecclesia domestica. CCC 1656
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Family participate in the mission of the Church (Familiaris Consortio, PJP II, 1981)
A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
Fundamental Mission of the Family
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Fundamental mission is … LOVE “The family has the mission to become more and more what it is … an intimate community of life and love” - FC, CCC 1603 "Where does love begin? It begins at home." - Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Survey result: 39 out of 43 agree with her
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A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
Fundamental Mission of the Family
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."Thus the home is the first school of Christian life and "a school for human enrichment." 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. CCC 1657
A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
Fundamental Mission of the Family
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• Actuation on the fundamental mission of LOVE School of humanity  Community in the service of man • 1. Family is school of humanity 2. Family nurtures vocations • Community in dialog with God • • • • 3. Family prays … together • A believing and evangelizing community 4. Family evangelizes Nurturing Vocations School of prayer Evangeliz ing
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A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
School of Humanity
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As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live - Pope John Paul II When Mother Teresa received the Nobel prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" Her answer was simple: "Go home and love your family."
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School of humanity Nurturing Vocations School of prayer Evangeliz ing
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The home is the natural environment for initiating a human being into solidarity and communal • responsibilities : Care for the poor, act justly, perform tolerance, stand for LIFE
A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
School of Humanity
Question 8
tolerance/acceptance/understanding supporting each other/ offering helping hands sacrifice God's love forgiveness charity, especially to the poor loving others chastity and modesty reconciliation value of life (pro-life) selflessness loving God importance of the Sacraments purpose of life 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4
• School of humanity • Nurturing Vocations • School of prayer • Evangelizin g
A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
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Nurturing Vocation
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Vocation – way to love Fatherhood / Motherhood / religious / single
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School of humanity Nurturing Vocations School of prayer Evangeliz ing
It is in the bosom of the family that parents are "by word and example . . . the first heralds of the faith with regard to their children. They should encourage them in the vocation which is proper to each child, fostering with special care any religious vocation." - CCC 1656
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“My family is my first seminary experience” Karol Wojtyla Vocation is to be nurtured , not to be forced
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A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
School of Prayer and Holiness
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“Family that prays together, stays together” Knowledge of God starts in the family Basic education of faith : God's love and loving God, Sacraments, Christ redemption and discipleship A successful family is a saint-producer
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School of humanity Nurturing Vocations School of prayer Evangeliz ing
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A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
Believing and Evangelizing Family
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Don't hide Christ Be the light of the world and salt of the earth
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School of humanity Nurturing Vocations School of prayer Evangeliz ing
A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
Role of Children
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The fourth of the ten commandments (the first of those that regulate the relationships amongst mankind) "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you." CCC 2197 – 2233 (Article 3 on the Fourth Commandment) The fourth commandment reminds grown children of their responsibilities toward their parents. As much as they can, they must give them material and moral support in old age and in times of illness, loneliness, or distress.
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A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
What to do next?
• • Pray for your family Pray with your family
A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.
Acknowledgment
Many thanks for all generous respondents
A community of Christ's disciples who are passionately in love with the Lord, and whose love is reflected in their ordinary lives.