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Go F-a-m-i-l-y!
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Marriage and the family constitute one of the most precious of human values. (FC1) This vocation to love and the service of life is in danger by the many profound changes that have affected society and culture. Filipino family in particular escapes not the onslaught of trends and patterns of development which resulted to the consequences on the aspects of family life. All these subtle violence against this so called first and vital cell of the society brought back memories of my own family. In this labor of love and inner journey, I give due recognition to my parents who are responsible of the person I have become. I belong to a FAMILY. Whether I am home or not, my real and true identity marks the proof of who I am. I myself am a family. “Christian family fulfills its prophetic role by welcoming and announcing the word of God: making it a believing and evangelizing community day by day.” (FC, 51). It is in my family that my power of believing blossoms into endless horizon. The road to ones upbringing is indeed bleak but the example and witnessing of my parents shed light to this somewhat tough journey. As members in the couples club in our town, active in cursillo movement and the lay minister status of my father, my parents became the source of grace in building a faith community in our family of four. They served as the vessels of faith by which I see in a deeper and surer way what is beyond my existence. Their faith propels me to discover the dignity of family which is a sign and meeting-place of the loving covenant between God and man, between Jesus Christ and his bride, the Church. (FC, 51) This wonderful journey of faith nourished my Christian upbringing. It greatly enhances the growing seed of vocation planted and nurtured in my own family. I am now gaining ground in the road to follow Christ in serving the Kingdom. At first, doubts crept in (especially in my novitiate year), but my trust in God’s ways pushed me to take that leap of faith – my YES to my Salesian vocation. I recognize now how deeply rooted I am in the faith of my parents to God. They are really models of faith especially in instances where almost everything is against the odds. All is possible because Thy will be done is our prayer. We believe that God will surely turn everything into good. All can become grace – even in the midst of daily hurrying and rushing; comings and goings. Everything is grace! Pope Paul VI urges us continuously that “the family, like the Church, ought to be a place where the Gospel is transmitted and from which the Gospel radiates. In a family which is conscious of this mission, all the members evangelize and are evangelized.” (FC, 52) My parents are my first educators of faith.
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