re-edited AV of Pope JP2 exhortation on the family

1. Familiaris Consortio
The Christian Family
in the modern world.
Part 2 The Plan of God for Marriage and the Family

2. 2º part – God’s Plan
for Marriage
and the Family

3. PART TWO - THE PLAN OF GOD
FOR MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
Man, the Image of the God Who Is Love
Marriage and Communion Between God and People
Jesus Christ, Bridegroom of the Church, and the
Sacrament of Matrimony
Children, the Precious Gift of Marriage
The Family, a Communion of Persons
Marriage and Virginity or Celibacy

4. PART TWO - THE PLAN OF GOD
FOR MARRIAGE AND THE
FAMILY
1. Man, the Image of the God
Who Is Love
2. Marriage and Communion
Between God and People
3. Jesus Christ, Bridegroom of
the Church, and the
Sacrament of Matrimony
4. Children, the Precious Gift of
Marriage
5. The Family, a Communion of
Persons
6. Marriage and Virginity or
Celibacy

5. 1 Man, the image of God

6. God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation,
and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion.
Love is therefore the fundamental and
innate vocation of every human being.

7. Love includes the
human body, and the
body is made a sharer
in spiritual love.
sexuality, by means of
which man and woman
give themselves to one
another through the acts
which are proper and
exclusive to spouses,
is by no means
something purely
biological, but concerns
the innermost being
of the human person
as such

8. The total physical self-giving would be a lie if it were not the sign
and fruit of a total personal self-giving, in which the
whole person, including the temporal dimension, is present

9. This totality which is required
by conjugal love also corresponds to
the demands of responsible fertility.

10. This fertility is directed to the
generation of a human being, and so
by its nature it surpasses the purely
biological order and involves a
whole series of personal values.

11. For the harmonious growth of these values
a persevering and unified contribution
by both parents is necessary.

12. The only "place" in
which this self-giving
in its whole truth
is made possible
is marriage,
the covenant of
conjugal love freely
and consciously chosen,
whereby man and
woman accept the
intimate community of
life and love willed
by God Himself

13. The institution of marriage
is not an undue interference
by society or authority,
nor the extrinsic imposition of a form.
rather it is an interior requirement
of the covenant of conjugal love
which is publicly affirmed
as unique and exclusive,
in order to live in complete fidelity
to the plan of God, the Creator.
A person's freedom,
far from being restricted by this
fidelity,
is secured against every form
of subjectivism or relativism
and is made a sharer
in creative Wisdom.

14. 12. Marriage and Communion Between God and People

15. 12. The communion
of love between
God and people,
a fundamental part
of the Revelation
and faith experience
of Israel, finds a
meaningful
expression in the
marriage covenant
which is established
between a man
and a woman.

16. Their bond of love becomes the image
and the symbol of the covenant
which unites God and His people.

17. 13. Jesus Christ, Bridegroom of the Church,
and the Sacrament of Matrimony

18. This revelation
reaches its definitive
fullness in the
gift of love which
the Word of God
makes to humanity
in assuming
a human nature,
and in the sacrifice
which Jesus Christ
makes of Himself
on the Cross
for His bride,
the Church.

19. In this sacrifice
there is entirely
revealed that plan
which God
has imprinted
on the humanity
of man and woman
since their creation;

20. The marriage of
baptized persons
thus becomes
a real symbol
of that new and
eternal covenant
sanctioned in the
blood of Christ.

21. The Spirit which the Lord pours forth gives a new heart,
and renders man and woman capable of loving
one another as Christ has loved us.

22. “How wonderful the bond
between two believers
with a single hope,
a single desire,
a single observance,
a single service!
They are both brethren
and both fellow-servants;
there is no separation
between them
in spirit or flesh;
in fact they are truly
Two in one flesh
And where the flesh is one,
one is the spirit.“
Tertuliano

23. By means of baptism, man and woman are definitively placed within the new
and eternal covenant, in the spousal covenant of Christ with the Church.
And it is because of this indestructible insertion that the intimate community
of conjugal life and love, founded by the Creator, is elevated
and assumed into the spousal charity of Christ,
sustained and enriched by His redeeming power.

24. By virtue of the
sacramentality
of their marriage,
spouses are bound
to one another
in the most profoundly
indissoluble manner.
Their belonging to
each other is the real
representation,
by means of the
sacramental sign, of
the very relationship of
Christ with the Church.

25. Spouses are therefore the permanent reminder to the Church of what happened on the Cross;
they are for one another and for the children witnesses to the salvation in which
the sacrament makes them sharers. Of this salvation event, marriage,
like every sacrament, is a memorial, actuation and prophecy:

26. As a memorial, the sacrament gives them the grace
and duty of commemorating the great works of God
and of bearing witness to them before their children.

27. As actuation,
marriage gives them
the grace and duty of putting
into practice in the present,
towards each other
and their children,
the demands of a love
which forgives and redeems.

28. As prophecy, it gives them the grace and duty
of living and bearing witness to the hope
of the future encounter with Christ."

29. also marriage is
a real symbol of
the event of
salvation…
the first and
immediate
effect of marriage
(res et sacramentum)
is not supernatural
grace itself,
but the Christian
conjugal bond

30. -it represents
-the mystery of
Christ's incarnation
and the mystery
of His covenant

31. conjugal love involves a totality,
in which all the elements of the
person enter
-appeal of the body and instinct,
-power of feeling and affectivity,
--aspiration of the spirit
-and of will.

32. It aims at a deeply
personal unity,
the unity that,
beyond union
in one flesh,
leads to forming
one heart and soul;
it demands indissolubility
and faithfulness in
definitive mutual giving;
and it is open to fertility
(cfr. Humanae vitae, 9).

33. 14. Children,
the Precious Gift
of Marriage

34. Thus the couple, while giving themselves
to one another, give not just themselves
but also the reality of children,
who are a living reflection of their love,
a permanent sign of conjugal unity
and a living and inseparable synthesis
of their being a father and a mother.
Conjugal love …..
makes them capable of
the greatest possible gift,
the gift by which they become
cooperators with God
for giving life to
a new human person.

35. Their parental love
is called to become
for the children
the visible sign of
the very love of God,
"from whom every
family in heaven and
on earth is named."

36. 15.
The Family,
a Communion
of Persons

37. The human family,
disunited by sin,
is reconstituted
in its unity by the
redemptive power
of the death and
Resurrection of Christ.
Christian marriage, by
participating in the salvific
efficacy of this event,
constitutes the natural
setting in which the
human person is introduced
into the great family
of the Church.

38. 16. Marriage and Virginity or Celibacy

39. In virginity or celibacy,
the human being is awaiting,
also in a bodily way,
the eschatological marriage
of Christ with the Church,
giving himself or herself
completely to the Church
in the hope that Christ may
give Himself to the Church
in the full truth of eternal life.
The celibate person
thus anticipates
in his or her flesh
the new world of
the future resurrection.

40. In spite of having renounced physical fecundity, the celibate person
becomes spiritually fruitful, the father and mother of many,
cooperating in the realization of the family according to God's plan.

41. These reflections on
virginity or celibacy can
enlighten and help those
who, for reasons
independent of their own
will, have been unable to
marry and have then
accepted their situation
in a spirit of service.

42. Virginity or celibacy,
by liberating the human
heart in a unique way,
"so as to make it burn
with greater love for
God and all humanity,"
bears witness that
the Kingdom of God
and His justice is
that pearl of great price
which is preferred
to every other value
no matter how great,
and hence must be
sought as the only
definitive value.

43. 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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44. 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
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46. PART TWO - THE PLAN OF GOD
FOR MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
Man, the Image of the God Who Is Love
Marriage and Communion Between God and People
Jesus Christ, Bridegroom of the Church, and the
Sacrament of Matrimony
Children, the Precious Gift of Marriage
The Family, a Communion of Persons
Marriage and Virginity or Celibacy

47. Familiaris Consortio
The Christian Family
in the modern world.