Pope: The Family Is the Living Symbol of the Loving Plan of God

[johnnyc176]

Official text of the Holy Father’s remarks to the Festival of Families at Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.

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Being with you makes me think of one of the most beautiful mysteries of our Christian faith. God did not want to come into the world other than through a family. God did not want to draw near to humanity other than through a home. God did not want any other name for himself than Emmanuel (cf. Matthew 1:23). He is “God with us.” This was his desire from the beginning, his purpose, his constant effort: to say to us: “I am God with you, I am God for you.” He is the God who from the very beginning of creation said: “It is not good for man to be alone” (Genesis 2:18). We can add: It is not good for woman to be alone; it is not good for children, the elderly or the young to be alone. It is not good. That is why a man leaves his father and mother, and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one flesh (cf. Genesis 2:24). The two are meant to be a home, a family.

 

[7_Sorrows]

I agree!

 

[adrift]

But what about priests and nuns and himself and others who don’t make families or “cleave” to a man or woman?
Are they not included in the Loving Plan of God?

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Are you saying that they don’t belong to a family? No mother, no father? You belong to a family especially the family of God. We are all brother’s and sister’s of Christ.

 

[johnnyc176]

But what about priests and nuns and himself and others who don’t make families or “cleave” to a man or woman?
Are they not included in the Loving Plan of God?

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The Holy Father answers your question…

“A good pastor renounces the love of a family precisely in order to focus all his energies, and the grace of his particular vocation, on the evangelical blessing of the love of men and women who carry forward God’s plan of creation,” he said, “beginning with those who are lost, abandoned, wounded, broken, downtrodden, and deprived of their dignity.”