Catholic teaching accepts the natural truth that the family is the basic human society. On top of its natural dignity, the family has been raised by Jesus Christ -- by virtue of the Sacrament of Matrimony -- to the nature of a "Domestic Church".
The wider community of believers more commonly known as "the Church" is best understood in turn to be the "Family of God", a communion of persons with God as Father, we as children (through, with and in Jesus Christ His Son), and with a divinely appointed mother, Mary the mother of Jesus.
Buhay-Pagdarasal refers to the third of five main segments of family life formation adopted by the Simbahayan sa Maynila. The following is your jumping board to specific subject areas on the spiritual life of the Christian family, examined from the perspectives of faith, science, and experience.
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