THE FAMILY - THE CHURCH IN MINIATURE

THE FAMILY - THE CHURCH IN MINIATURE

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Monday, Feb. 23, 2015

REF: Today's meditation on the importance of the family in Joseph's Cardinal Ratzinger's book, "Co-Workers of the Truth" Ignatius, 1992.

   
 In the Gospel, the net is first of all a symbol for the Kingdom of God, which is lowered into the sea of time, into the sea of history, in order to lift the human race out of the realm of silence, of darkness, of fruitfulness, into another dimension: into the "kingdom of justice, love, and peace."

   
 This Kingdom is already present among us as the net that gathers us together; but it is also still before us as a movement that draws us up to the light.

  
 " The Church [too] is a net", the Holy Father said, and continued: " ... bound together by the Holy Spirit, united by the apostolic mission, efficacious by the unity of faith, life, and love.

     
 His thought turned then to the smallest, but nonetheless irreplaceable, unit of the Church: the family, which is known to Tradition as the "domestic church". the church in miniature.

       
 This is the "net that is strong, that gives unity, that rescues from the storms of the deep".

   
 Then followed a moving appeal from the successor of Saint Peter: "Let us not permit this net to torn!" I would gladly proclaim this appeal to the coming year as a slogan that will reverberate loudly from day to day; that will be a reminder to families, to the state, and to society as a whole that they must not permit this net to torn.

  
  We know in how many places it has been torn already: we know how many predatory fish have worked with might and main to tear it to pieces, allegedly in order to free people from their imprisonment in it.

   
 But it would be an empty freedom into which they would sink: the freedom of death, of loneliness, of the darkness when truth is lost. It would be a liberation from the Kingdom of justice, love, and peace - from that new dimension into which the net is drawing us.

George H. Kubeck

Only 17%  of Black American children grow up with a mother and father. Everything possible must be done for this and other American families to stop this trend. The authentic U.S. Presidential candidate for the Black family movement in America is: Ben Carson. PERSUADE HIM TO RUN.