Monday, August 1, 2016

Amoris Laetitia - Par. 1




1. The Joy of Love experienced by families is also the joy of  the Church.  As the Synod Fathers noted, for all the many signs of crisis in the institution of marriage, “the desire to marry and form a family remains vibrant, especially among young people, and this is an inspiration to the Church”.1  As a response to that desire, “the Christian proclamation on the family is good news indeed”.2

1 Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, Relatio Synodi (18 October 2014), 2. 
2 Fourteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, Relatio Finalis (24 October 2015), 3.




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