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Holy Family of Nazareth,grant that our families toomay be places of communion and prayer,authentic schools of the Gospeland small domestic churches.Holy Family of Nazareth,may families never again experienceviolence, rejection and division;may all who have been hurt or scandalizedfind ready comfort and healing.Holy Family of Nazareth,make us once more mindfulof the sacredness and inviolability of the family,and its beauty in God’s plan.Jesus, Mary and Joseph,Graciously hear our prayer.Amen.Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, during theExtraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, on 19 March,the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, in the year 2016,the fourth of my Pontificate.
INDEXThe Joy of Love [1-7] 3Chapter OneIN THE LIGHT OF THE WORD [8] . 7You and your wife [9-13] 8Your children are as the shoots of anolive tree [14-18] 11A path of suffering and blood [19-22] 15The work of your hands [23-26] 17The tenderness of an embrace [27-30] . . 19Chapter TwoTHE EXPERIENCESAND CHALLENGES OF FAMILIES [31] 23The current reality of the family [32-49] 23Some challenges [50-57] 40Chapter ThreeLOOKING TO JESUS: THE VOCA-TION OF THE FAMILY [58-60] . . . 47Jesus restores and fulfils God’s plan [61-66] 48The family in the documents of the Church[67-70] 52The sacrament of Matrimony [71-75] 54Seeds of the Word and imperfectsituations [76-79] 59The transmission of life and the rearingof children [80-85] 62257
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POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATIONA
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immoderate desire for total change
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the way for two central chapters de
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your children will be like olive sh
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est mystery is not solitude, but a
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energy and vitality. If the parents
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Thus succeeding generations can rai
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family of David, the family problem
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children!” (Ps 128:5-6). The Book
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and quieted my soul, like a child q
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CHAPTER TWOTHE EXPERIENCESAND CHALL
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hostility in families”. 13 Here I
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situation. We need a healthy dose o
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39. This is hardly to suggest that
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unstable or changeable affectivity
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of the great poverty of contemporar
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45. “A great number of children a
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are a great trial not only for the
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materially and spiritually, they ca
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and unsupported.” 38 As the Bisho
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capacity to love and to teach how t
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legislative enactments that promote
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CHAPTER THREELOOKING TO JESUS:THE V
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among all, and let the marriage bed
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65. The incarnation of the Word in
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spouses the capacity to live that l
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the features of a family. The famil
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follow him, to rise again after the
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simply not reject them, since by th
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marriage and the family. In additio
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follows that “spouses to whom God
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who accept, raise and surround with
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85. The Church is called to coopera
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to seniors - are just a few of the
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love is not jealous or boastful;it
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Love is at the service of others93.
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Love is not boastful97. The followi
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Christian may accept or reject. As
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to desire to be loved”; 110 indee
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account of evil”; “it is not re
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Love rejoices with others109. The e
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113. Married couples joined by love
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not mean that everything will chang
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of the universe that strong and pow
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life they can make visible the love
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remain faithful in the face of ever
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there to be purchased, possessed or
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joys are as deep and thrilling as t
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“three words need to be used. I w
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which must daily be faced by the he
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deepest concerns and to take them a
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either pleasure or passion is insuf
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emotional life benefits the family
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great love he tells us: “My son,
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not only is “a source of fruitful
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willed by God when they take place
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conjugal friendship, for it is mean
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preference (cf. 1 Cor 7:6-9), not s
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become one with us and gave himself
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one another and live as one until d
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CHAPTER FIVELOVE MADE FRUITFUL165.
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to choose the name by which he hims
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what illnesses they may one day suf
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mother and a father; both are neces
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dedication and moral strength. Moth
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A reversal of the roles of parents
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channels of God’s love. For he sa
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risk, we should remember that Jesus
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reflect the beauty of the Gospel an
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individualism so prevalent today ca
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The elderly191. “Do not cast me o
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ultimately immature. Knowing and ju
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which cannot be overlooked. Indeed,
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CHAPTER SIXSOME PASTORAL PERSPECTIV
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of countries”. 230 The Synod Fath
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community physicians, social worker
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renew the fabric of the whole eccle
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209. The timely preparation of enga
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their sins and past mistakes, and t
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bought and sold. They cannot be com
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during the first years of their mar
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realization that the other is now a
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the Apostolic Exhortation Familiari
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and solidarity in the concrete dema
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placing the family in the Lord’s
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and the support that our parishes c
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becomes an opportunity to let the w
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present themselves, disrupting fami
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Old wounds239. Understandably, fami
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242. The Synod Fathers noted that
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bishop himself, in the Church over
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abandon divorced parents who have e
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with married couples with disparity
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this matter and that international
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demands of each of its stages. The
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martyrs interceding for those who s
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CHAPTER SEVENTOWARDS A BETTER EDUCA
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do we really know? And above all, d
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Often we prove inconsistent in our
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conduct - can partially serve this
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