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Pope's Video Message to Family Meeting
"Collaborate Eagerly and Joyfully in the Noble Cause of the
Family"
MEXICO CITY, JAN. 22, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of
the text of the video message Benedict XVI sent to the 6th World
Meeting of Families, which ended Sunday in Mexico City.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
Dear families,
1. To all of you gathered to celebrate the 6th World Meeting of
Family under the maternal gaze of Our Lady of Guadalupe, "grace
to you and peace from God (our) Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ" (2 Thessalonians 1:2).
You just finished praying the holy rosary, contemplating the
joyful mysteries of the Son of God made man, who was born into
the family of Mary and Joseph, and grew up in Nazareth in a
domestic setting among daily tasks, prayer and neighborly
relationships. His family welcomed him, and protected him with
love, it initiated him in the observance of religious traditions
and of the laws of his people, it accompanied him to human
maturity and to the mission to which he was destined. "And Jesus
advanced (in) wisdom and age and favor before God and man" (Luke
2:52).
The praying of the joyful mysteries has been alternated with
listening to the testimonies of Christian families representing
all the continents, which are like an echo and a reflection of
our time in the history of Jesus and of his family. These
testimonies have shown us that the seed of the Gospel continues
to germinate and give fruit in the various situations of today.
2. The theme of this 6th World Meeting of Families -- "The Family
as Educator in Human and Christian Values" -- reminds us that the
domestic sphere is a school of humanity and of Christian life for
all of its members, with beneficial consequences fo r all people,
for the Church and for society. In effect, the home is called to
live and cultivate reciprocal love and truth, respect and
justice, loyalty and collaboration, service and helping others,
especially those most in need. The Christian home, which should
"manifest to all men Christ's living presence in the world, and
the genuine nature of the Church" ("Gaudium et Spes," 48),
should be full of the presence of God, putting all of the day's
events into his hands and asking for his help to adequately
fulfill its essential mission.
3. For this prayer as a family at appropriate and significant
times is of great importance, for as the Lord has assured: "For
where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I
in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20). And the Teacher is
certainly with the family that listens and meditates on the word
of God, who learns from him what is most important in life (cf.
Luke 10:41-42), and puts into practice h is teachings (cf. Luke
11:28). In this way, one's personal and family life is
transformed and gradually improved, dialogue is enriched, faith
is transmitted, the pleasure of being together is increased, and
the home becomes more united and consolidated, like a house built
on rock (cf. Matthew 7:24-25). Pastors, don't stop helping
families to fully know the word of God and sacred Scripture.
4. With the strength that springs forth from prayer, the family
is transformed into a community of disciples and missionaries of
Christ. In it the Gospel is welcomed, transmitted and shines
forth. As my venerable predecessor Pope Paul VI said, "Parents
not only communicate the Gospel to their children, but from
their children they can themselves receive the same Gospel as
deeply lived by them" ("Evangelii Nuntiandi," 71).
The Christian family, living with confidence and in filial
obedience to God, being faithful and generously welcoming
children, caring for the weakest and being willing to forgive,
becomes a living Gospel that all can read (cf. 2 Corinthians
3:2), and a sign of credibility perhaps more persuasive and
capable of confronting the world today. The family must make
known its testimony of life and its explicit profession of faith
in the various circles that surround it, such as the school and
various associations, as well as commit itself to the
catechetical formation of its children, and the pastoral
activities of its parochial community, in particular those
related to marriage preparation or those specifically directed
toward family life.
5. Living together in the home, upon demonstrating that liberty
and solidarity complement one another, that the good of each one
counts on the good of all, that the demands of strict justice
need to be open to understanding and forgiveness in the interest
of the common good, is a gift for all and a source of inspiration
for social coexistence. In effect, social relationships should
take as a reference point the constitutive values of authentic
family life to humanize them more and more and bring them on the
path toward the construction of the "civilization of love."
Furthermore, the family is also the vital cell of society, the
first and decisive resource for its development, and many times
the last refuge for those for whom the established structures of
society haven't sufficiently met their needs.
For its essential social function, the identity of the family has
the right to be properly recognized, and to not be confused with
other forms of living together, so as to be able to count on the
due cultural, legal, economic, social and medical protections.
And more specifically, it should count on the freedom of
education and school choice, bearing in mind the number of
children and available economic resources.
It is necessary, therefore, to develop a culture and a politics
of the family that is propelled in an organized manner by the fa
milies themselves. For this I encourage them to join associations
that promote the identity and rights of the family, according to
an anthropologically coherent vision of the Gospel. As well, I
invite these associations to coordinate themselves and
collaborate among each other so that their activity be more
incisive.
6. In conclusion, I exhort all of you to have great confidence,
for the family is in the heart of God, Creator and Savior. To
work for the family is to work for the dignified and luminous
future of humanity and for the construction of the Kingdom of
God. Together we humbly invoke divine grace, so that he helps us
to collaborate eagerly and joyfully in the noble cause of the
family, called to be evangelized and to evangelize, to be humane
and to humanize. In this beautiful work, the Blessed Virgin Mary
accompanies us with her maternal intercession and with her
heavenly protection, who today I invoke with the glorious title
of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and in whose mot herly hands I put all
the families in the entire world.
Thank you very much.
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