Pope Talk: The Joy of Love

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The Joy of Love

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The Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia) is Pope Francis’ reflection on love in the family.

In the letter, he draws together the insights of a two-year consultation involving the whole Church.

Archbishop Christopher Prowse, the archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, draws upon a sports analogy to explain the spirit in which the Pope offers the Joy of Love:

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“In any team sport, we need both a referee or umpire and a coach. The referee is there to make sure that the rules are understood and that the players are pulled up when they break them. The coach plays a different but complementary role – he encourages and teaches, trains and prepares so that the players can improve and reach for the ideals enshrined in sport.”

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The Pope wants us to know that the Church is like a coach who can encourage us in the face of setbacks and defeat.

“The coach helps us to never lose hope, but to keep responding to the loving mercy of Jesus to embrace the ideal that is offered by the Church,” says the archbishop.

Enjoy on the following pages some thoughts offered by an expert coach in the ways of true love and happiness.

Archbishop Christopher Prowse of Canberra-Golburn made these remarks at a Guinness and God event in 2016.

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There is no stereotype of the ideal family, but rather a challenging mosaic made up of many different realities, with all their joys, hopes and problems... In every situation that presents itself, ‘the Church is conscious of the need to offer a word of truth and hope.’ AL 57 The Church is a family of families, constantly enriched by the lives of all those domestic churches. AL 87

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In the family... three words need to be used. I want to repeat this!

Three words: ‘Please’, ‘Thank you’, ‘Sorry’. Three essential words!

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With great affection I urge all future mothers: keep happy and let nothing rob you of the interior joy of motherhood.

Your child deserves your happiness. Don’t let fears, worries, other people’s comments or problems lessen your joy at being God’s means of bringing a new life to the world.

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I encourage the faithful who find themselves in complicated situations to speak confidently with their pastors or with other lay people whose lives are committed to the Lord. They may not always encounter in them a confirmation of their own ideas or desires, but they will surely receive some light to help them better understand their situation and discover a path to personal growth.

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All of us are called to keep striving towards something greater than ourselves and our families, and every family must feel this constant impulse. Let us make this journey as families, let us keep walking together. What we have been promised is greater than we can imagine. May we never lose heart because of our limitations, or ever stop seeking that fullness of love and communion which God holds out before us.

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