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Conference in Spain on St Josemaría’s teachings on the family

November 13, 2006

Tags: Family and work, Marriage
A conference on “Passing on the Faith in the Family” is being held in Jaen, Spain, on Friday November 17 and Saturday November 18, 2006.

St Josemaría always called marriage a vocation to holiness. This vocation is rooted in Baptism and gifted with the necessary strength to construct a strong family, which in turn gives the whole of society the inner cohesion it needs in order to go forward.

This strength teaches people to serve others, to feel solidarity with them, to be more focused on others than on oneself. “I constantly tell those who have been called by God to form a home to love one another always, to love each other with the love of their youth. Any one who thinks that love ends when the worries and difficulties that life brings with it begin, has a poor idea of marriage, which is a sacrament and an ideal and a vocation, It is precisely then that love grows strong. Torrents of worries and difficulties are incapable of drowning true love because people who sacrifice themselves generously together are brought closer by their sacrifice. As Scripture says, aquae multae, a host of difficulties, physical and moral, non potuerunt extinguere caritatem, cannot extinguish love (Song 8:7).” – St Josemaría, Conversations, 91.

The conference starts at 19:30 on Friday 17 November, and ends at 20:00 on Saturday 18 November. Topics included in the conference programme (in Spanish):

- Family, Business and Society: a constantly evolving triangle
- Parenting Models: ethics and socio-cultural interface
- Parents’ commitments in raising and educating their children
- Communicating love within the family
- Relativism, legality, and family
- The family in the mass media
- Work-family balance in everyday life
- For a more human society: start from the family


Conference venue: Centro de Convenciones, Institución Ferial, Prolongación Avda. de Granada - 23003 JAÉN, Spain.

For full details in Spanish, see: www.simposiosanjosemaria.com

For further information contact:
José Antonio Díez,
Egido de la Alcantarilla 14,
23002 JAÉN,
Spain.