Preliminary communication
THE FAMILY AS A PRIVILEGED PLACE FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF FAITH
Veronika Reljac
; Theology of Rijeka, Dislocated Studies of Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
The Bishops in Croatia nurture a high opinion of the family, defining it as a focal point of the civilisation of love; nevertheless they admit that the contemporary society strongly influences the family, in a way that destabilises it. Although the family is the centre of all the virtues, it has gone through extensive changes, caused by the excessive individuality of spouses, and by the individuality of children in respect to the elderly, so that today a Christian family hardly manages the task of the transmission of faith on young generations.
Since the family is by its nature capable for this mission, it can accomplish it today too, but with the supportive help in the process of upbringing and education. Therefore the family is “the privileged place of the transmission of faith”, but it can only accomplish this mission if the organised pastoral ministry of the family helps the parents supporting the faith, to the extent that they themselves become capable to be the educators of faith of their own children.
Keywords
family; transmission of faith; pastoral ministry of the family; parents; children
Hrčak ID:
71250
URI
Publication date:
12.7.2011.
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