Emma A.

Nove Contemporary Family

II-BSE-VED
Familiaris Consortio Pope John Paul II, 1981

Part 2- THE PLAN OF GOD FOR MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

a. Man, the Image of the God Who Is Love
God created man in His own image and likeness. He created man out of love so
that love He created woman and man to have unity and to have new life. The fertility is
aimed toward the production of a human being, it transcends the strictly biological order
and encompasses a wide range of personal values.

b. Marriage and Communion Between God and People

The communion of love between God and people, Marriage between God and
man is a promise of the Lord to us. Where only God is our Lord and we are also his
people or His Church. God loves His people," is likewise proclaimed through the living
and concrete word whereby a man and a woman express their conjugal love.

c. Jesus Christ, Bridegroom of the Church, and the Sacrament of Matrimony

The communion between God and His people finds its definitive fulfillment in
Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom who loves and gives Himself as the Savior of humanity,
uniting it to Himself as His body. Jesus show His love to His Church, through the
Sacrament of Matrimony because in this part Jesus is the bridegroom of the Church,
because God is Love. So, also marriage is a real symbol of the event of salvation, but in
its own way. "The spouses participate in it as spouses, together, as a couple.

d. Children, the Precious Gift of Marriage

According to the plan of God, marriage is the foundation of the wider community
of the family, since the very institution of marriage and conjugal love are ordained to the
procreation and education of children, in whom they find their crowning. Having a
married life and family, is a gift from God especially to having a children. In one family,
children the fruit or result of parental love.

e. The Family, a Communion of Persons

Marriage and the family is a complex of interpersonal relationships set up-married
life, fatherhood and motherhood. Family is the communion of persons, therefore, as a
community of persons, is the first human society. Human person is introduced into the
human family and into the family of God, which the Church.
f. Marriage and Virginity or Celibacy
Christian couples therefore have the right to expect from celibate persons a good
example and a witness of fidelity to their vocation until death. Virginity or celibacy can
enlighten and assist persons who have been unable to marry due to circumstances beyond
their control and have accepted their status in a service-oriented manner.

Part 3- THE ROLE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY

a. Family, Become What You Are
The family finds in the plan of God the Creator and Redeemer not only its
identity, what it is, but also its mission, what it can and should do. The role that God calls
the family to perform in history derives from what the family is; its role represents the
dynamic and existential development. In family, it is the first way on how the persons
develop themselves and know become what they are and letting know what the purpose
in this world. Every Family has a mission, mission to guard, to protect, to care their
family members.

b. FORMING A COMMUNITY OF PERSONS

1. Love as the Principle and Power of Communion
The family, which is founded and given life by love, is a community of persons:
of husband and wife, of parents and children, of relatives. In this part, family has a
communication to each member and need to be humble and respect the decision of
the authority. In family, need a strong communication so that will be a sign of strong
relationship.

2. The Indivisible Unity of Conjugal Communion

The first communion is the one which is established, and which develops between
husband and wife. conjugal communion sinks its roots in the natural complementarity
that exists between man and woman, is nurtured through the personal willingness of
the spouses to share their entire life-project, what they have and what they are.
3. An Indissoluble Communion
The conjugal communion is characterized not only by its unity but also by its
indissolubility. The love can continue to grow, and spouses can be faithful through all
the vicissitudes of married life. Family communion can only be preserved and
perfected through a great spirit of sacrifice.

4. The Broader Communion of the Family

Conjugal communion constitutes the foundation on which is built the broader
communion of the family, of parents and children, of brothers and sisters with each
other, of relatives and other members of the household. Christian family is also called
to experience a new and original communion which confirms and perfects natural and
human communion.
5. The Rights and Role of Women
In this perspective the Synod devoted special attention to women, to their rights
and role within the family and society. It is important to underline the equal dignity
and responsibility of women with men. God created human race, the male and female.
God gives man and woman an equal personal dignity, endowing them with the
inalienable rights and responsibilities proper to the human person.

6. Women and Society

Without intending to deal with all the various aspects of the vast and complex
theme of the relationships between women and society and limiting these remarks to
a few essential points, one cannot but observe that in the specific area of family life a
widespread social and cultural tradition has considered women's role to be
exclusively that of wife and mother, without adequate access to public functions
which have generally been reserved for men.

7. Offenses Against Women's Dignity

The Christian message about the dignity of women is contradicted by that
persistent mentality which considers the human being not as a person but as a
thing, as an object of trade, at the service of selfish interest and mere pleasure: the
first victims of this mentality are women. This mentality produces very bitter
fruits, such as contempt for men and for women, slavery, oppression of the weak,
pornography, prostitution-especially in an organized form-and all those various
forms of discrimination that exist in the fields of education, employment, wages,
and so on.

8. Men as Husbands and Fathers

Within the conjugal and family communion-community, the man is called upon to
live his gift and role as husband and father. Love for his wife as mother of their
children and love for the children themselves are for the man the natural way of
understanding and fulfilling his own fatherhood. In revealing and in reliving on earth
the very fatherhood of God, a man is called upon to ensure the harmonious and united
development of all the members of the family.

9. he Rights of Children
In the family, which is a community of persons, special attention must be devoted
to the children by developing a profound esteem for their personal dignity, and a great
respect and generous concern for their rights. This is true for every child, but it
becomes even more urgent the smaller the child is and the more it needs everything,
when it is sick, suffering or handicapped. Let the children come to me, and do not
hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.

10. The Elderly in the Family

 There are cultures which manifest a unique veneration and great love for the
elderly. far from being outcasts from the family or merely tolerated as a useless
burden, they continue to be present and to take an active and responsible part in
family life, though having to respect the autonomy of the new family. The pastoral
activity of the Church must help everyone to discover and to make good use of the
role of the elderly within the civil and ecclesial community, within the family. The
life of the aging helps to clarify a scale of human values; it shows the continuity of
generations and marvelously demonstrates the interdependence of God's people.

c. SERVING LIFE
1. Cooperators in the Love of God the Creator
The creation of man and woman in His own image and likeness, God crowns and
brings to perfection the work of His hands. The fundamental task of the family is to
serve life, to actualize in history the original blessing of the Creator-that of
transmitting by procreation the divine image from person to person.
2. The Church's Teaching and Norm, Always Old Yet Always New
The love of husband and wife is a unique participation in the mystery of life and
of the love of God Himself, the Church knows that she has received the special
mission of guarding and protecting the lofty dignity of marriage and the most serious
responsibility of the transmission of human life.

3. The Church Stands for Life

The teaching of the Church in our day is placed in a social and cultural context
which renders it more difficult to understand and yet more urgent and irreplaceable
for promoting the true good of men and women. Scientific and technical progress,
which contemporary man is continually expanding in his dominion over nature, not
only offers the hope of creating a new and better humanity, but also causes ever
greater anxiety regarding the future. the Church firmly believes that human life, even
if weak and suffering, is always a splendid gift of God's goodness.

4. That God's Design May Be Ever More Completely Fulfilled

Church is certainly aware of the many complex problems which couples in many
countries face today in their task of transmitting life in a responsible way. She also
recognizes the serious problem of population growth in the form it has taken in many
parts of the world and its moral implications.

5. In an Integral Vision of the Human Person and of His or Her Vocation

In the context of a culture which seriously distorts or entirely misinterprets the
true meaning of human sexuality, because it separates it from its essential reference to
the person. Church more urgently feels how irreplaceable is her mission of presenting
sexuality as a value and task of the whole person, created male and female in the
image of God.
6. The Church as Teacher and Mother for Couples in Difficulty
In the field of conjugal morality, the Church is Teacher and Mother and acts as
such. As teacher, it is never tires of proclaiming the moral norm that must guide the
responsible transmission of life. Church interprets the moral norm and proposes it to
all people of good will, without concealing its demands of radicalness and perfection.
Church is in no way the author or the arbiter of this norm and as a mother, Church is
close to the many married couples who find themselves in difficulty over this
important point of the moral life. It knows the situation, and not only individual
difficulties but the social ones as well.

7. The Moral Progress of Married People

It is always very important to have a right notion of the moral order, its values and
its norms; and the importance is all the greater when the difficulties in the way of
respecting them become more numerous and serious. Married people too are called
upon to progress unceasingly in their moral life, with the support of a sincere and
active desire to gain ever better knowledge of the values enshrined in and fostered by
the law of God.

8. The Right and Duty of Parents Regarding Education

The right and duty of parents to give education is essential, since it is connected
with the transmission of human life. Giving education is rooted in the primary
vocation of married couples to participate in God's creative activity. parents must be
acknowledged as the first and foremost educators of their children. Educators is so
decisive that scarcely anything can compensate for their failure in it. Parents are the
first teacher, that will teach their children especially in good moral.

9. Educating in the Essential Values of Human Life

Children must grow up with a correct attitude of freedom with regard to material
goods, by adopting a simple and austere life style and being fully convinced that
"man is more precious for what he is than for what he has. The family is the first and
fundamental school of social living: as a community of love, it finds in self-giving the
law that guides it and makes it grow. Education in love as self-giving is also the
indispensable premise for parents called to give their children a clear and delicate sex
education.

10. The Mission to Educate and the Sacrament of Marriage

For Christian parents the mission to educate, a mission rooted, as we have said, in
their participation in God's creating activity, has a new specific source in the
sacrament of marriage, which consecrates them for the strictly Christian education of
their children. The sacrament of marriage gives to the educational role the dignity and
vocation of being really and truly a "ministry" of the Church at the service of the
building up of her members.
11. First Experience of the Church
 The mission to educate demands that Christian parents should present to their
children all the topics that are necessary for the gradual maturing of their personality
from a Christian and ecclesial point of view.

12. Relations with Other Educating Agents

The family is the primary but not the only and exclusive educating community.
Man's community aspect itself-both civil and ecclesial-demands and leads to a
broader and more articulated activity resulting from well-ordered collaboration
between the various agents of education.
13. Manifold Service to Life
Fruitful married love expresses itself in serving life in many ways. Christian
parents will thus be able to spread their love beyond the bonds of flesh and blood,
nourishing the links that are rooted in the spirit and that develop through concrete
service to the children of other families, who are often without even the barest
necessities. Christian families will be able to show greater readiness to adopt and
foster children who have lost their parents or have been abandoned by them.

d. PARTICIPATING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY

1. The Family as the First and Vital Cell of Society

God create of all things has established the conjugal partnership as the beginning
and basis of human society," the family is "the first and vital cell of society. The
family has vital and organic links with society, since it is its foundation and nourishes
it continually through its role of service to life.
2. Family Life as an Experience of Communion and Sharing
The very experience of communion and sharing that should characterize the
family's daily life represents its first and fundamental contribution to society. The
relationships between the members of the family community are inspired and guided
by the law of "free giving." respecting and fostering personal dignity in each and
every one as the only basis for value, this free giving takes the form of heartfelt
acceptance, encounter and dialogue, disinterested availability, generous service and
deep solidarity.

3. The Social and Political Role

The social role of the family certainly cannot stop short at procreation and
education, even if this constitutes its primary and irreplaceable form of expression.
The social role of families is called upon to find expression also in the form of
political intervention. Families should be the first to take steps to see that the laws and
institutions of the State not only do not offend but support and positively defend the
rights and duties of the family. Families should grow in awareness of being
 "protagonists" of what is known as "family politics" and assume responsibility for
transforming society.

4. Society at the Service of the Family

The family and society have complementary functions in defending and fostering
the good of each and every human being.

5. The Charter of Family Rights

The ideal of mutual support and development between the family and society is
often very seriously in conflict with the reality of their separation and even
opposition. Church openly and strongly defends the rights of the family against the
intolerable usurpations of society and the State. One of characteristic is the right to
exist and progress as a family, that is to say, the right of every human being, even if
he or she is poor, to found a family and to have adequate means to support it and so
on.

6. The Christian Family's Grace and Responsibility

The social role that belongs to every family pertains by a new and original right to
the Christian family, which is based on the sacrament of marriage. The social and
political role is included in the kingly mission of service in which Christian couples
share by virtue of the sacrament of marriage, and they receive both a command which
they cannot ignore and a grace which sustains and stimulates them. Christian family
is thus called upon to offer everyone a witness of generous and disinterested
dedication to social matters, through a "preferential option" for the poor and
disadvantaged.

7. For a New International Order

The spiritual communion between Christian families, rooted in a common faith
and hope and given life by love, constitutes an inner energy that generates, spreads
and develops justice, reconciliation, fraternity and peace among human beings.

Reflection
In my reflection, I chose the part one where it is talk about the situation of the Family in
the world today, the influence of circumstances on the conscience of the faithful, inculturation
and Evangelical discernment. I am aware about the situation of family now a days because that
our families known as basic unit of the society. Every member of the families learned inside
one’s home through the parents who the first teacher. The situation nowadays is very different,
there some people that abort their children because they did not give a healthy and good life. So,
in this case, there have a solution, need to be aware on what is right and wrong.