Review article
School for marriage
Ana Jeličić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0093-9029
; Department for forensic studies University of Split
Abstract
“School for marriage” is actually school for love, family and responsibility. It is hard to say who is competent to be a teacher in that school, or which educational models to use and to what extent, which programmes to adopt and what to do to enrich the existing contents in that “school for marriage”. Besides the contents, models and teachers it is equally difficult to detect the place of that school or social and historical events that essentially affect its perception and activities. In this paper we have tried to identify some trends and issues that arise and distort the image of marriage and family as well as their members, emphasizing the elements that make the marriage and family successful and their members truly happy. We have made a brief historical overview of the reactions of the Church and family, two elementary “schools for marriage”, to historical-anthropological and cultural issues that essentially determined and determine attitudes towards marriage and ordinarily dictate the values. We have also commented on the recent III Extraordinary General Assembly Synod of Bishops: “Pastoral Challenges to the Family in the Context of Evangelization”. Our aim was to analyze not only the “teachers”, “students”, place and models of both “schools for marriage”, but also to reconsider the contents starting from the fact that so far some “lessons” have been missing in the care for a successful marriage, without neglecting the indispensable evangelization role of the lay faithful and family by which the roles of “teachers” and “students” in “school for marriage” continuously rotate for mutual benefit.
Keywords
marriage; family; pastoral spouses; family values; education for love; preparing for marriage; communication; evangelization
Hrčak ID:
131454
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2014.
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