THE FILIPINO FAMILY – LIGHTS AND SHADOWS
Challenges to the Domestic Church
Keywords:
FILIPINO FAMILY, LIGHTS AND SHADOWS, Domestic ChurchAbstract
Vatican II’s retrieval of the notion of family as domestic church in
its landmark document Lumen Gentium (n. 11) has provided impetus
to the production of magisterial and theological reflections on the
ecclesiological motif the last several decades. In the Philippines such
titles attached to the Christian family as “the basic unit of Christian
life,” “subject and object of evangelization,” “the primary community
of Christ’s disciples,” “the church of the home,” or “the church in the
home,” and “agent of renewal” have found their way in pastoral and
theological discourse
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