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The gift of family
Jesus, to save us, was born in the *** of a family
it is the Holy Family of Nazareth.
Thus, God reveals harmony that exits between what He has created and the way he realizes the salvation.
The family is based on the marriage between a man and a woman
and it is a very important institution for the good of people.
The Second Vatican Council affirms that
" The well-being of the individual person and of human and Christian society is intimately linked
with the healthy condition of that community produced by marriage and family."
This means that the good health of families is very necessary
for the accomplishment of people especially the spouses and children.
There is no doubt that nowadays there are many factors in society in general and ours in particular,
that difficult the harmony and stability of families.
It has turned into a topic or commonplace to speak about the crisis of the family.
Which is the institution that is not nowadays undergoing for a certain crisis situation?
Anyway, the family is one of the institutions that resist the crisis.
The writer Andre Frossard said that marriage and family are pieces of resistance.
Everyone must be aware of what is at stake in the health or in the family crisis.
The family will be healthy if society rediscovers the necessary values in order for man and woman,
in matrimonial and family union, realize fully their dignity as persons.
And the first of these values is the true conjugal love understood as a mutual self-giving of spouses,
a love forever, steeped in loyalty and open to life,in order to build a family as an intimate community of life and love.
The love that the Church has to people and society takes her to defend with energy the identity of marriage and family.
In this mission have stout out the last Holy Fathers, especially John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
Now we are preparing ourselves to receive Benedicto XVI next November 7,
when he will come to preside the ceremony of the dedication of the temple of the Holy Family.
The fact that this great temple takes the name of the holy family of Nazareth
it will allow to the Holy Father to say to us undoubtedly many things important and very necessary for all of us.
From the family up to the life, from the beauty up to the dialog faith - culture.
I am sure that the family will be a point that he will remember us and believe that his teaching will enrich us and will help us
to extract also the consequences for our life that in Barcelona we have such an original church dedicated precisely to the Family of Nazareth.
For our part, in the topics of reflection that we have proposed to prepare spiritually the visit of the Holy Father,
the family occupies an important place.
The temple that the Pope will dedicate liturgically to God began as an offering votive to the Sacred Family,
as an expiatory temple of the sins committed against the holiness of the marriage and the family.
For it, the act of November 7 will be also an invitation to dedicate to offering, that is to say,
to God the living sanctuary that they are the families, a few real domestic churches,
as he said the Council Vatican the Second.
The beauty of Gaudí's temple turns this way into an invitation for all of us.
An invitation to discover the real sense of the marriage and of the family in the God's salvation plan.
Until next week, God willing