Marriage is the only institution of human society which embraces three of the great incentives for living, namely - self-maintenance, self-gratification and self-perpetuation. Originally, property was the basic institution of self-maintenance. It still is today. The prime economic incentive afforded in marriage was the determining basis for self-gratification. It still is today. It is another matter where self-perpetuation is concerned because marriage today is often viewed only as a mean of pleasure.
As a result, the contagious pro-choice mentality in society today has taken for granted the human family provision for the biological perpetuation of the human species. Thus the pro-life Catholic Church, with the Family Life Ministry as the evangelizing arm, continues to uphold the sanctity of human life and the covenantal character of marriage.
Associations between spouses, and between the spouses and their children, would determine how how stabilized the respective personality of every individual within family life. Positive attitudes propagated by parents to children would naturally stimulate positive growth and acceptance of persons in their diverse personalities in society.
The human society would be greatly improved if the civilized races of today strive to sustain the traditional regulation of a family nature that promotes filial and associative relationships. This would continually pave the way for humanity to freely and frankly discuss every proposal that point towards fraternal devotion.
A true family is a good family that reveals to the children by the parents (pro-creators) the attitude of the Almighty God (Creator) that leads to a strong sense of belonging. In others words, true and genuine parents portray to their children the love of God and the reality of a Paradise that governs the world and the universe.
The home is the natural social arena wherein the parents practice the ethics of humanity and human relationships that may be grasped by the growing children. The family is the fundamental unit of fraternity in which parents and children learn those lessons of patience, altruism, tolerance and forbearance which are so essential to the realization of the sense of belonging among humanity.
The great threat against family life today is the rising tide of self-gratification. In the present industrial and urban era, the marriage institution is evolving along mores in humanity have failed to sufficiently contain the promiscuity-tainted society built on steep self-gratification. This could constitute the greatest threat that has ever been leveled at the social evolutionary institution of family life-the home.
We are in an era when individualism is rampantly spreading like wild fire. Today we hear the familiar cries of children at shopping places screaming, "I want...I want" to adults expressing "Don't tell me what to do...I know what is best for me". Among the many glaring examples is property accumulation that is becoming an instrument for augmenting all forms of self-gratification.
The important key to all the temptations of the world is Endurance. However strong the flow of information and however fast the advance of technology, enabling us to interact with others at its own cost and revenues, and however tempting all there is that the world has to offer; we should not drift along the rush of the tide that leads to disaster for family life.....
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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