Family is essential to human identity. The book of Genesis tells us that, “A man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24) From the very beginning of creation this coming together of one man and one woman to form a new oneness was written in the natural law. This oneness, this family, brings forth new life. Within the family one first discovers who they are. As essential as the family is to human identity, it should come then as no surprise that Christ, God incarnate, chose to enter humanity in the context of a family. In doing so he sanctified the family providing the model for the domestic Church.
Within The Family One First Discovers Who They Are
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