The family and new evangelization

Abstract

The term „The Gospel of the family” inspired by the teaching of John Paul II includes two dimensions: the first one shows what the Scripture says about marriage and family; the second one focuses on a fact that the Christian family itself is a bearer of the Good News, provided that it is a witness to love and it goes ahead of any other signs or apostolic actions. In this way family, as a place of teaching the human person to love and to live in a communion of persons, is able to take up challenges brought by postmodernism: individualism, privatization of love, disconnect between sexuality and procreation, emotional illiteracy. New evangelization directed towards family and penetrating the family, has to give the response to a postmodern age, offering two ways: to give a testimony that the phenomenon, meeting and the communion with the living God and human dominates any sort of intellectual arguments or tradition as well as to propose a “principle” of  family life which assumes two other beliefs: that there is no principle without spirituality and that there is no adequate spirituality without relations in the communion of persons.