![]() This “would help to understand the nature of God’s dream that families are called to make their own and to realise that in the difficulties of life they can place their trust in a God who neither disappoints nor abandons anyone”, explains Archbishop Diarmuid Martin. That is what it has meant for us to read the signs of the times”.Īnother view expressed in various working groups is the need to make greater use of Scriptural language, which “can be closer to the realities of the daily experience of families and can become a bridge between faith and life”, avoiding expressions deemed too “ecclesiastical”. ![]() In considering marriage and the family here and now, we were conscious of the need to address the facts of history and the realities of cultures – with both the eyes of faith and the heart of God. “Nor does the Church inhabit a world outside human cultures the Church shapes cultures and cultures shape the Church. “The Church does not inhabit a world out of time, as Vatican Council II, ‘the Council of history’, recognised”, notes the prelate. There are also forces which are positive, even luminous, and these need to be identified since they may well be the signs of God in history”. If it were the full story, all the Church could do would be to condemn. True, there are negative forces at work at this time in history and in the various cultures of the world but that is far from the full story. In general the rapporteurs from the various groups, which were divided according to language (English, French,Spanish, German and Italian) considered that it was necessary to offer, as Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia, writes, “a less negative reading of history, culture and the situation of the family at this time. ![]() Vatican City, 9 October 2015 (VIS) – This morning, during the fourth General Congregation, the various Circuli Minori – thirteen in total – presented the results of their reflections on the first part of the Instrumentum Laboris examining the mission of the family in the Church and the contemporary world.
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