Article 4: Disciples of Nazareth

By assuming membership in the Association, the family strives to be a community of disciples of Nazareth who listen to, reflect upon and exemplify in practice the Word of God as that Word revealed Itself in the domestic life of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. In order to accomplish this triple objective:

4.1. The Family: Domestic Church:

Each family of the Association reflects on God’s design for the family as made manifest in the Holy Family, and commits itself to pray individually and collectively that God will enable it to live out faithfully its dignity and responsibility of being a family, a domestic church, in accordance with the teaching of the magisterium.

4.2. The Family: Hope of Society

Member families of the Association read and share the Scriptures as a way of deepening their faith, witnessing to it, and passing it on to their children in a more authentic manner. Likewise, each family welcomes in a responsible way children born into it as gifts from God, educates them through the achievement of human and Christian maturity, and directs them in life according to their own vocation, even if God should call them to a life of special consecration to Him and service in the Church.