Welcome to Catholic Families Scotland

Welcome to the website for Catholic Families in Scotland.

We hope you will send us an e-mail and register for our next conference in 2011.

The Catholic Families Scotland website draws its inspiration from the letter of Pope John Paul II called 'Familiaris Consortio' (The family in the modern world) published in 1983. During 2008 a number of families began to meet together and we studied the letter. John Paul II saw the family as the domestic church called to fulfil the following tasks:

  • Forming a community of persons
  • Serving Life
  • The transmission of life
  • Education
  • Participation in the development of society
  • Sharing in the life and mission of the Church
  • The Christian family as a believing and evangelising community
  • The Christian family as a community in dialogue with God

The pages of this website, our next conference in 2011, and our prayer, is that our families will continue to fulfil their mission to be the seed bed of the Roman Catholic faith in Scotland.

In 2011 we invite families to reflect on their role as educators of their children and the theme of our conference will be 'Education in the family'.

We hope you will join us in the following prayer attributed to Pope John Paul.


Prayer for families

Lord God, from you every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. Father, you are love and life.

Through your Son, Jesus Christ, born of woman and through the Holy Spirit, fountain of Divine Charity grant that each family on earth may become for each successive generation a true shrine of life and love.

Grant that your grace may guide the thoughts and actions of husbands and wives for the good of their families and of all families in the world.

Grant that the young may find in the family a solid support for their human dignity and for their growth in truth and love.

Grant that love, strengthened by the grace of the sacrament of marriage, may prove mightier than all the weaknesses and trials through which our families sometimes pass.

Through the intercession of the Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that the Church may fruitfully carry out her worldwide mission in the family and through the family. Through Christ our Lord who is the Way, the Truth and the Life for ever and ever. Amen

 

“Catholic Families Scotland intends to strive for the building up of the people of God and to ensure the Christian education of our children in accordance with the teaching of the Church. (Can 226.1, 2)[1] We intend to celebrate the Catholic faith – by supporting meetings for couples, parents and children and times of pilgrimage, conferences and retreats across Scotland or overseas. Further, we intend to promote and support a common commitment to ‘education for life’ in the family – by being witnesses of 'openness to life', and offering support to those who work for the protection of life from conception to natural death. We intend to follow the Church’s social teaching by reaching out to families in need through support to charitable work that relieves poverty in the United Kingdom and overseas.”
[1] The Code of Canon Law in English Translation: The Canon Law Society Trust, Collins 1983

 

 
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