Family - The Domestic Church
'The Christian family is also called to experience a new and original communion which confirms and perfects natural and human communion. In fact the grace of Jesus Christ, "the first-born among many brethren" is by its nature and interior dynamism "a grace of brotherhood," as St. Thomas Aquinas calls it. The Holy Spirit, who is poured forth in the celebration of the sacraments, is the living source and inexhaustible sustenance of the supernatural communion that gathers believers and links them with Christ and with each other in the unity of the Church of God. The Christian family constitutes a specific revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason too it can and should be called "THE DOMESTIC CHURCH".' This small extract n.49 from the Apostolic Exhortation "Familiaris Consortio" of Pope Saint John Paull II, does express in a wonderful way what our families are called to be. And it is a great way to start today...