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arcornbread
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 5:54pm \| IP Logged

I hope I'm doing this right and that I'm in the right place for this question. I have read the statement "we are 100% faithful to the Magisterium" and I would like to know more about what that means. I did a search for Magisterium and there are so many sites to choose from. Some were more of a definition others had papers written on various topics.I want to read something that addresses:education of children,family living,training of young children, homeschooling ???things related to homeschooling.Any suggestions as to where to look?Obviously,I'm not Catholic but I am very interested in learning more.Thank you for your help.
Ginger

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Posted: March 30 2005 at 7:04pm \| IP Logged

Welcome Ginger!

The Magisterium is the teaching office of the Catholic Church consisting of the Pope and all the Bishops united with him. As children of the Church we are totally obedient to Her.

By reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the encyclicals (letters to all the faithful) the Holy Father writes we can find out what the Church teaches.
The Catechism has some very beautiful things to say about education of children and the duties of parents. I'll copy a few paragraphs here:

2221     The fecundity of conjugal love cannot be reduced solely to the procreation of children, but must extend to their moral education and their spiritual formation. "The
role of parents in educationis of such importance that it is almost impossible to provide an adequate substitute." The right and the duty of parents to educate their children are primordial and inalienable.

2222     Parents must regard their children as children of God and respect them as human persons. Showing themselves obedient to the will of the Father in heaven, they educate their children to fulfill God's law.

2223     Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility first by creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited to education in the virtues. This requires an apprenticeship in self-denial, sound judgement, and self-mastery - the preconditions of all true freedom. Parent should teach their children to subordinate the "material and instinctual dimensions to interior and spiritual ones." Parents have a grave responsibility to give good example to their children. By knowing how to acknowledge their own failings to their children, parents will be better able to guide and correct them:

      "He who loves his son will not spare the rod...He   who disciplines his son will profit by him." - Sir 30:1-2

     "Fathers do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." - Eph 6:4

2224     The home is the natural enviroment for initiating a human being into solidarity and communal responsibilities. Parents should teach children to avoid the compromising and degrading influences which threaten human societies.

2225     Through the grace of the sacrament of marriage, parents receive the responsibility and privilege of evangelizing their children. Parents should initiate their children at an early age into the mysteries of the faith of which they are the "first heralds" for their children. They should associate them from their tenderest years with the life of the Church. A wholesome family life can foster interior dispositions that are a genuine preparation for a living faith and remain a support for it throughout one's life.

2226     Education in the faith by the parents should begin in the child's earliest years. This already happens when family members help one another to grow in faith by the witness of a Christian life in keeping with the Gospel. Family catechisis precedes, accompanies, and enriches other forms of instruction in the faith. Parents have the mission of teaching their children to pray and to discover their vocation as children of God. The parish is the Eucharistic community and heart of the litugical life of Christian families; it is a privileged place for the catechisis of children and parents....

I hope this has helped a little.

Robin Dupre



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arcornbread
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 7:50pm \| IP Logged

Robin,
Thank you so much. I know that this information will be very helpful.The Magisterium contains so much and I had no idea where to begin the search.The Catechism and the Encyclicals are the Magisterium?So I could do a search for those?None of the churches that I have attended have anything like this,and it seems so important.I feel the church should offer more guidance[I'm speaking of protestant churches I have attended]I really see a lot in the Catholic Church that makes sense to me. Thank you for taking the time to respond.
Ginger

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Posted: March 30 2005 at 7:57pm \| IP Logged

So when someone says they are "100% faithful to the Magisterium" it means that they do not dissent from Church teaching but accept it as the teaching that has been given to us from Christ through the apostles and their successors.

Robin mentioned encyclicals and one that really touches on the topics you asked about is Familiaris Consortio, on the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World, written by the current Pope, John Paul II.

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arcornbread
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 8:41pm \| IP Logged

Familaris Consortio is beautiful.I haven't read it all,but I certainly plan to read every word.Thank you so much.
Ginger

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