RelatioSynodi, Healthy Relationships and Young Families: A Moral Theological Re?ection in view of Marriage Catechumenate
The III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops' RelatioSynodistates that engaged couples and young families need pastoral accompaniment so that they can effectively integrate their affective and heterosexual love. This article highlights certain indices for healthy premarital relationships that serve as firm foundation for what the Synod Fathers express. Speci?cally, it stresses the importance of cultivating 'daily life as sexual spirituality' as well as 'amorbenevolentia', 'amorcomplacentia', and 'amorconcupiscentia'. To realise RelatioSynodi's vision, the Church during the forthcoming XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops ought to take serious the importance of marriage catechumenate structured along four heterosexual relationship periods corresponding with three phases of religious formation.
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