The document discusses the challenges facing families today from various societal influences and changes in cultural values. It notes both positive developments like greater awareness of human dignity and rights, as well as negative trends like rising divorces and a decline in openness to life. The Church aims to support families through pastoral care and by promoting traditional Christian values of love and service and the sanctity of marriage and family life.

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2. FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO – The Christian Family in the Modern World
index of the document
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE - BRIGHT SPOTS AND SHADOWS FOR THE FAMILY TODAY
PART TWO - THE PLAN OF GOD FOR MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
PART THREE - THE ROLE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAMILY
I - FORMING A COMMUNITY OF PERSONS
II - SERVING LIFE
1 The Transmission of Life
2. Education
III - PARTICIPATING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY
IV - SHARING IN THE LIFE AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH
The Christian Family as a Believing and Evangelizing Community
2. The Christian Family as a Community in Dialogue with God
3. The Christian Family
PART FOUR - PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY: STAGES, STRUCTURES,
AGENTS AND SITUATIONS 65
I - STAGES OF PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY
II - STRUCTURES OF FAMILY PASTORAL CARE
III - AGENTS OF THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY
IV - PASTORAL CARE OF THE FAMILY IN DIFFICULT CASES
CONCLUSION

3. Ch 1 – Bright spots and shadows of the Family Today
Familiaris Consortio
The Christian Family
in the modern world.

4. INTRODUCTION
1.The Church at the
Service of the
Family
2.The Synod of 1980
in Continuity with
Preceding Synods
3.The Precious
Value of Marriage
and of the Family

5. Introduction:
The
Church,
at the
service
of the
Family

6. 1 The Family

7. The Church,
conscious that
matrimony and
the family constitute
one of the most
precious gifts of
humanity, speaks out
and wants to offer
her help to all
who know the value
of the family and try
to live it fatihfully

8. 2 – The Synod of 1980
continuation of the previous synods

9. As an educational community, the family should help man discern its own vocation
and make all the effort needed to achieve greater justice, preparing its members
from childhood for intepersonal relationships, rich in justice and love.

10. 3. The precious gift of Matrimony and the Family

11. God has willed matrimony and the family as part of His creation and has ordained them to
fulfill themselves in Christ. They need His grace to be cured from the wounds of sin, and
returned to their first priciple, that is, to the full knowledge and integral realization of the God’s plan.

12. We are at a time
when the family
is the target
of many powers
that try to destroy
and deform it.
The Church is conscious
that it is good for society
and in itself, and is
profoundly committed
to the promotion
of the family

13. Part one: Light and shade in today’s families

14. 1. PART ONE - BRIGHT
SPOTS AND SHADOWS
FOR THE FAMILY TODAY
1. The Need To Understand
the Situation
2. Evangelical Discernment
3. The Situation of the
Family in the World
Today
4. The Influence of
Circumstances on the
Consciences of the
Faithful
5. Our Age Needs Wisdom
6. Gradualness and
Conversion
7. Inculturation

15. 4. We need
to know
the actual
situation of
the family

16. It often happens that a men and women of today, who are sincerely looking
for an answer to the serious daily problems of marriage and family life,
are offered view points and attractive proposals which actually
compromise the truth and dignity of the human person.

17. 5. Evangelical discerning

18. The supernatural
sense of faith
does not consist
solely in the
consensus
of the faithful.
The Church, following
Christ, seeks the truth
which does not
always coicide
with the majority’s
opinion.
She listens to her
conscience and not
to the powers that be.
She defends the
poor and scorned.

19. 6. The situation of the family
in today’s world

20. There is a worrying deterioration of some fundamental values:
Like - an erroneous concept and practise
of the independence of the married couple,

21. serious misunderstandings with regard to the relationship
of authority between parents and children

22. - the practical difficulties the families meet with
when trying to transmit values.

23. - the increasing number of divorces,

24. - the plague
of abortion

25.  - the increasing frequency of sterilization

26.  - the advent of a truly anti-natal mentality

27. At the root of these negative phenomena there is often a misconception
of the experience of freedom, conceived not as the capacity
to put into practise the true project of God for matrimony and the family,
but rather as an autonomous power of self-afirmation,
to the detriment of others, for one’s own selfish benefit.

28. in third world countries, families often lack
both the basic materials to survive, like food, work,
housing, medicines, and their fundamental liberty.

29. In rich countries, an excessive standard of living and consumer mentality,
paradoxically united to a certain anxiety and uncertainty for the future,
robs the couples of the generosity and courage to engender new human life.

30. And so, life is not often held as a blessing
but as a danger to be guarded against

31. 7. How this situation influences the consciousness of the faithful

32. living in this kind of world, under the pressure of the mass media,
the faithful don’t know how to defend themselves often
from the corruption of fundamental values
nor how to adopt a critical attitude to this family culture, and
how to become active constructors of authentic family humanism

33. The Synod fathers pointed out so many divorces as a worrying sign
of this phenomenon and also the recurrence of remarrying among the faithful.

34. So also the acceptance of merely civil marriages,
contrary to the vocation of baptised, “to wed in the Lord”.

35. At times the
sacramental
marriage is not
motivated by
a living faith,
but by other
reasons

36. -the rejection of the moral norms with regard to the human
and Christian use of sexuality within marriage.

37. 8. We need wisdom for our times

38. The new emerging culture should be intimately evangelized, and recognise
the true values. They should defend the rights of men and women,
and promote justice in the very structures of society.
In this way, the new humanism will not separate men from
their relationship with God, but lead them more so to Him.

39. Science and technical applications offer new and immense
possibilities in the cosntruction of such humanism.
Nevertheless, science, as a consequence of the political options
that direct its investigation and applications,
is often used contrary to its original purpose;
the promotion of the human person.

40. All of us have to recouperate our consciousness of the primacy
of the moral values, those of the human person as such, and return
to recognising the meaning of life and its fundamental values.
This is the challenge for renewing today’s society.

41. 9. Graduality and Conversion

42. We should convert our minds and hearts, following the crucified Christ,
renouncing our own selfishness, and oppose the injustice caused by sin,
which has penetrated profoundly into the structures of today’s world,
and frequently places obstacles for the family, contrary to the realization
of its fundamental rights . This conversion can influence society
for the better and renew its structures.

43. 10. Inculturation

44. As always the Church accepts every culture and people, and all that better expresses
the inexhaustible riches of Christ, but keeping in mind the double principle of
compatibility with the gospel of the various cultures and of communion with the universal Church.

45. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Revised 27-5-2020
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – In the Light of the Word
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – The Experiences and Challenges of Families
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 - Looking to Jesus, the Vocation of the Family
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - Love in Marriage
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Love made Fruitfuol
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Some Pastoral Perspectives
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Towards a better education of children
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Accompanying, discerning and integrating weaknwss
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – The Spirituality of Marriage and the Family
Beloved Amazon 1ª – A Social Dream
Beloved Amazon 2 - A Cultural Dream
Beloved Amazon 3 – An Ecological Dream
Beloved Amazon 4 - An Ecclesiastical Dream
Carnival
Christ is Alive
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Love and Marriage 1-
Love and Marriage 2 – growing up to sexual maturity
Love and Marriage 3 – psychological differences and complimentarity
Love and Marriage 4- causes of sexual attraction
Love and Marriage 5- freedom and intimacy
Love and Marriage 6 - human love
Love and Marriage 7 - destiny of human love
Love and Marriage 8- marriage between Christian believers
Love and Marriage 9 – sacrament of marriage
Lumen Fidei – ch 1,2,3,4
Medjugore Pilgrimage
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Mother Teresa of Calcuta – Saint
Pope Franciss in Thailand
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Joseph
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
Valentine
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Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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46. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Revisado 27-5-2020
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1 – A la luz de la Palabre
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2 – Realidad y Desafíos de las Familias
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3 La mirada puesta en Jesús: Vocación de la Familia
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4 - El Amor en el Matrimonio
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5 – Amor que se vuelve fecundo
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6 – Algunas Perspectivas Pastorales
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7 – Fortalecer la educacion de los hijos
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8 – Acompañar, discernir e integrar la fragilidad
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9 – Espiritualidad Matrimonial y Familiar
Carnaval
Cristo Vive
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucarisía)
Espíritu Santo
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Lumen Fidei – cap 1,2,3,4
Madre Teresa de Calcuta – Santa
María y la Biblia
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la Jornada Mundial Juventud 2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Queridas Amazoznia 1 un sueños social
Queridas Amazoznia 2 un suepo cultural
Queridas Amazoznia 3 un seuños ecologico
Queridas Amazoznia 4 un sueño eclesial
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1
Revolución Rusa y comunismo 2
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 3
San José
Santiago Apóstol
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
Vocación – www.vocación.org
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47. Familiaris Consortio
The Christian Family
in the modern world.