Love Is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive, a Preparatory Catechesis for the World Meeting of Families - Tapa blanda

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La Rencontre mondiale des familles Philadelphie, Pennsylvanie le 22 au 27 septembre, 2015

"La famille qui vit la joie de la foi la communique spontanement, elle est sel de la terre et lumiere du monde, elle est levain pour toute la societe." Pape Francois, le 27 octobre, 2013

Lance en 1994 sous le pontifi cat de Saint Jean-Paul II, la Rencontre mondiale des familles est une celebration joyeuse de la famille et de la foi qui a lieu tous les trois ans. Mgr Charles J. Chaput de Philadelphie a rme que la reunion 2015 est cense d'etre un cadeau pas seulement pour les catholiques a Philadelphie, mais pour chaque personne de bonne volonte dans le monde plus large. ""We are called to acknowledge how beautiful, true and good it is to start a family, to be a family today... We are called to make known God's magnificent plan for the family...as we accompany them amidst so many difficulties."" - Pope Francis, February 20, 2014

For Pope Francis, as for his predecessors Saint John Paul II and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, this is more than just talk. It is a rallying cry. This is the focus of the 2015 World Meeting of Families: Love is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive.For Catholics everywhere, it is a time to renew our focus on the family, the "domestic church" - what it means, why it's important, how it fits in with God's plan for us, and how we can become who God created us to be.

Here is a new, fresh, and insightful way to do just that. In Love is Our Mission, you can easily explore Catholic teaching on marriage, family, sexuality, children, human dignity, and the sanctity of life. It's a guided tour through scripture and 2000 years of Church teaching in which you are awakened to the relationship God wants to have with you, the family, and ultimately the world. Self-reflection or group discussion questions bring the teachings home in a very real and practical way.

As Pope Francis has said, we must, "keep before us the beauty of the family and marriage, the greatness of this human reality which is so simple and yet so rich..." "