Subject: VISnews 110524
Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede
From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt
VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 97
ENGLISH
TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
SUMMARY:
- Presentation of Document "Family: Work and Celebration"
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PRESENTATION OF DOCUMENT "FAMILY: WORK AND CELEBRATION"
VATICAN CITY, 24 MAY 2011 (VIS) - This morning in the Holy See Press Office,
the document "Family: Work and Celebration", the preparatory catecheses for
the VII World Meeting of Families, was presented. The gathering will take
place in Milan, Italy from 30 May to 3 June in 2012.
Taking part in the presentation were Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, president
of the Pontifical Council for the Family; Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi,
archbishop of Milan; Bishop Franco Giulio Brambilla, auxiliary of that same
archdiocese, coordinator of the workgroup responsible for editing the
preparatory catecheses and co-president of the academic preparatory
committee for the theological-pastoral convention; Fr. Gianfranco Grieco,
O.F.M., bureau chief in the Pontifical Council for the Family; and Fr.
Davide Milani, head of social communications for the archdiocese of Milan.
Cardinal Antonelli mentioned that the dicastery over which he presides is
celebrating the 30th anniversary of its foundation, just like the John Paul
II Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. He further
explained that the gathering in Milan in 2012 will be organized in two
parts: a theological-pastoral convention on the first three days followed by
two days of celebration with the Holy Father in attendance. "The book of
catecheses on the theme "Family: Work and Celebration", which was prepared
by the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Archdiocese of Milan, has
been inestimably helpful in preparing for this gathering. ... It consists of
10 Biblical catecheses accompanied by texts of the Magisterium. The Vatican
Publishing House (Libreria Editrice Vaticana) has published it in Italian,
English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Polish, and it can be used
directly by ecclesial communities and by families".
For his part, Cardinal Tettamanzi hoped that the catecheses could "serve
as guide for dioceses around the world, transforming into a point of
reference that is useful even beyond initiatives of pastoral care for family
and work. It is necessary to disseminate the information widely so that,
thanks also to translations, these characteristic materials and intuitions
do not remain exclusive to just a few and do not simply constitute an
intra-ecclesial patrimony".
Bishop Franco Giulio Brambilla noted that the catecheses "form a trio that
begins from the family to open it to the world. Work and celebration are the
forms within which the family inhabits social space and lives human time.
... The first group of catecheses confronts the way of living relationships
at home". A home that "necessarily becomes a space of acceptance and a place
where a profound intimacy between the couple and between parents and
children is safeguarded. ... The second group introduces the theme of work
in daily life, ... which cannot be just a means of economic support but the
place of personal identity and social relationship. ... The third group
concentrates on the manner in which the family celebrates. It is difficult
in today's situations to live Sunday as a time of celebration ... modern
humanity has invented free time but seems to have forgotten the celebration
... This is why the family needs to engrave on its lifestyle the sense of
celebration ... as a community of encounter".
On 28 March, the Pontifical Council for the Family initiated the site
www.familia.va to provide information on the dicastery's activities and main
projects. Among other sections is included one dedicated to the World
Meeting of Families in Milan.
OP/ VIS
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