Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Pope Francis, 5/20/15 General Audience
"Today we pause to reflect on an essential
characteristic of the family, namely, its natural vocation to educate
the children so that they grow in responsibility for themselves and for
others...'Critical' intellectuals of all kinds have
silenced parents in a thousand ways, to defend the young generations
from harm -- real or imagined -- of family education. Among other
things, the family has been accused of authoritarianism, favoritism,
conformism, and of emotional repression that generates conflicts....a
rupture has been opened between the family and society, between the
family and school; today the educational pact has been broken. And thus,
the educational alliance of society with the family has entered into
crisis because reciprocal trust has been undermined....The
so-called 'experts' have multiplied, who have taken the role of parents
even in the most intimate aspects of education. On emotional life, on
personality and on development, on rights and duties the 'experts' know
everything....How have we arrived at this point?
There is no doubt that parents, or better, certain educational models of
the past had some limitations, there’s no doubt. However, it is also
true that there are mistakes that only parents are allowed to make,
because they can compensate for them in a way that is impossible for
anyone else. On the other hand, we know it well, life has become stingy
of time to talk, to reflect, to deal with one another. Many parents are
'kidnapped' by work – father and mother must work – and by other
preoccupations, hampered by the new needs of the children and the
complexity of present-day life....The Christian
communities are called to offer support to the educational mission of
families, and they do so first of all with the light of the Word of
God....How many wonderful examples we have of Christian parents full of
human wisdom! They show that a good family education is the spinal cord
of humanism. Their social radiation is the resource that makes it
possible to compensate for the lacunae, the wounds, the voids of
paternity and maternity that touch less fortunate children. This
radiation can do genuine miracles. And these miracles happen every day
in the Church...."It is time that fathers and mothers
return from their exile – because they have exiled themselves from the
education of their children --, and reassume fully their educational
role. We hope that the Lord will give parents this grace: not to exile
themselves from the education of their children. And only love,
tenderness and patience can do this" (Pope Francis, 5/20/15 General Audience).
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