Article 6: Apostles of the Holy Family

Each family, which becomes through its consecration a community of disciples and witnesses of Nazareth, is also called to be a community of apostles of Nazareth by radiating the Gospel, received and lived out in the home, as witnesses to other families, in the surrounding area, and in the work place.

6.1. The Family: Community of Life and Love

Family members endeavor to make of their own family a community of life and love, each one according to their situation: husband and wife, through faithful conjugal love and mutual self-giving at all levels of their life; parents and children, through ongoing interchanges of love by which each gives and receives acceptance, forbearance, reconciliation and peace.

6.2. The Family: Educator of Families

Married members of the Association involve themselves in preparing couples for sacramental marriage, helping them to discern the calling to marriage and to embrace the mission of fatherhood and motherhood within the Christian family.

They are especially sensitive toward newlyweds, more exposed to possible difficulties in adapting to a life in common and the acceptance of children. They also consider it to be their mission to be at the side of couples experiencing moments of crisis so as better to support them with their own expertise and with the means that a caring Church and wise pedagogy advise.

6.3. The Family: Promoter of Life

Members of the Association defend life from conception until natural death; to encourage the practice of adoption and collaborate, according to their means, in providing assistance to children who have lost their parents or have been abandoned by them.

6.4. The Family at the Service of Charity:

Each family member of the Association seeks to carry out in the field of educational community, in the parish, or within the Association itself, both spiritual and corporal works of mercy toward the poor, those without work, the sick, the elderly, the handicapped, the addicted, the orphans, the widows, the abandoned spouses, and the unmarried mothers.