Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.29.1.3
Some Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of Marriage and Family According to the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia (I.)
Ivan Šarčević
; Franciscan Theology in Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Abstract
The first part of the article »Some Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of Marriage and Family According to the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia« wants to point out that the post-synodal exhortation on love in the family Amoris laetitia (2016) is marked by the pastoral theology of Pope Francis who builds upon his program exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (2013). The hallmarks of this theology are the biblical foundation and linguistic actualization, the Argentine theology of the people, the Jesuit spirituality with an emphasis on self-education through the formation of conscience and the discernment of spirits; the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council with an emphasis on the Church with open doors that goes forth to the peripheries. It is a pastorally oriented discourse on the God of gradual upbringing and unconditional mercy. It is about man, a beloved creature of God who is not perfect but is called to be brought up, to love and in this way to gradually, in small steps, in marriage and family, in the Christian community and the world, to be conformed to Jesus Christ. This part of the article discusses the special pastoral guidelines arising from the exhortation Amoris Laetitia, which relate to the preparation for marriage and the pastoral accompanying of spouses and families.
Keywords
family; love; God of mercy; Church that goes forth; conscience; pastoral care of accompanying and discernment
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255904
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Publication date:
16.4.2021.
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