Catholicism offers a profound and deeply spiritual understanding of the family. Rooted in Scripture and Tradition, the roles and responsibilities within the family aim at fostering an environment of love, respect, and spiritual growth.

2014年1月7日 · The Five “Marks” of a Catholic Family. 1. Catholic Families Worship Together–The Eucharist is the source of our love and the sign of the intimacy to which we are called. Therefore, as a family, we attend Sunday mass weekly (and Holy Days and at other times as we are able) and we actively participate in parish life–our spiritual home ...

2021年4月14日 · The entire life of a flourishing Christian family will be suffused with the supernatural—with faith, hope, and charity—in a way that perfects its natural goods. The family that exhibits these marks will be fertile soil for vocations to consecrated life.

2016年11月6日 · The fundamental concept of the Catholic family is that a particular married couple participates in Christ’s marriage to his Church. As Vatican II put it, Christ “fills the Church, which is His body and His fullness, with His divine gifts so that it may expand and reach all the fullness of God.”

The opening number of the section of the family begins with how Sacred Scripture repeatedly underlines the importance and centrality of the family. The book of Genesis narrates the creation of the first man and woman, and the family is portrayed as having a central role in creation.

To be a Catholic family is to center family life around God, to allow Him into your home and your life - as individuals and as a family - and let Him take the lead. It means to keep God as part of the relationship between husband and wife and passing on that relationship to your children.

Strong Catholic Family Faith seeks to empower parents and Catholic leaders to form faith-filled Catholic families. Research and Church teaching state the importance of parents in the faith formation of their children.

"The Catholic Family Handbook" performs a real service for parents. It helps fathers and mothers realize the full meaning of their sacred calling and offers them practical directives for dealing with the problems of educating modern youth; and they will find in its pages ways and means to perfect their relationship with their children.

2006年12月1日 · If we wish to be holy families, we must pray. A holy family is our greatest weapon against the influences of the world and our most effective way of influencing the world. The Second Vatican Council called the family “the first and vital cell of society” (Apostolicam Actuositatem 11).

2015年8月14日 · Catholic families are called to love each other with the love that flows from God's own heart. We can only do this if we ask God–together–to teach us what this means. Therefore, in addition to...