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 relationships between husband and wife, your children, your friends and the people you encounter.
God’s Plan
In 2013, during one of his Wednesday addresses, Pope Francis referred to the parable of the Prodigal Son. In his talk the Pope asks:
“What is God’s plan? It is to make us all the one family of his children, in which each of you feels close to Him and feels loved by Him – feels, as in the parable, the warmth of being the family of God. In this great design, the Church finds its source. [The Church] is not an organization founded by an agreement among [a group of] persons, but – as we were reminded many times by Pope Benedict XVI – is the work of God: it was born out of the plan of love, which realizes itself progressively in history. The Church is born from the desire of God to call all people into communion with Him, to His friendship, and indeed, as His children, to partake of His divine life.”
Later, in the same talk, the Pope encourages us to “escape from individualism, [from] the tendency to withdraw into ourselves, and calls us to be a part of His family.”
As Catholics, we are called to live in communion with one another. We are not just called to gather together for Mass on Sunday (though that is an important part). It’s also about being present for each other outside the realm of the Mass. We are called to care for each other when our family members are hurting. It’s about giving them support when they are going through financial difficulties. Lending a hand when a family member is recovering from surgery. It’s about spending time with each other and praying for each other. - catholic stand
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