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June 22, 2022 - June 26, 2022
Pope Francis has chosen this theme for the next World Meeting of Families, which will take place in Rome in June 2022.
“Family love: a vocation and a path to holiness.” As the announcement from the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life reads: “On the fifth anniversary of the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia and three years after the promulgation of Gaudete et Exsultate, this is intended to highlight family love as a vocation and as a way of holiness, so as to understand and share the profound and salvific meaning of family relationships in daily life.”
The meeting will be organized by the Diocese of Rome and the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life. It was initially scheduled for the sixth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia and the fourth anniversary of Gaudete et Exsultate—i.e. in the year 2021—but it has been moved to 2022
The communication of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life explains that, in giving shape to the concrete experience of love, “marriage and the family manifest the great value of human relationships, in the sharing of joys and hardships and in the unfolding of daily life, which guides people towards an encounter with God. This journey, when lived with fidelity and perseverance, strengthens love and realizes the vocation to holiness, proper to every person, which is made concrete in conjugal and family relationships. In this sense, Christian family life is a vocation and a way of holiness, an expression of the ‘most beautiful face of the Church’ (Gaudete et Exsultate 9)”
For more information: www.diocesidiroma.it/roma2022