Iosif Enăşoae: Misiunea pedagogică a părinţilor creştini în lumina documentelor Conciliului al II-lea din Vatican

La missione pedagogica dei genitori è primaria ed insostituibile. Per il fatto che hanno generato figli, i genitori hanno il diritto primario, specifico e nello stesso tempo il dovere proprio di impegnarsi per darli un’educazione completta. I genitori, essendo consapevoli che i loro figli hanno la stessa dignità, sono cheamati ad educarli e formarli per vivere pienamente secondo la loro dignità e di promuovere il bene proprio e il bene comune. Secondo l’insegnamento del Concilio Vaticano II, promosso tramite i suoi documenti, l’educazione dovuta ai figli deve essere fisica, psichica, religiosa, morale, vocazionale e sociale. I genitori hanno il diritto di scegliere una scuola adeguata per educare e formare i loro figli. Un impegno importante per i genitori è quello di communicare la fede ai loro figli tramite il Battesimo e di educarli, con la catechesi e il loro buon esempio, per vivere la vita cristiana secondo l’insegnamanto di Gesù. La crisi educazionale della famiglia si pùo risolvere cambiando la mentalità erronea che non considera più i figli come un dono di Dio, ma piutostto come un impedimento dello sviluppo dei genitori o come un diritto dovuto. L’insegnamento del Concilio Vaticano II è la vera guida per i genitori cristiani che devono compiere la loro missione di dare una vera e sicura educazione umana e cristiana ai figli.

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Iosif Enăşoae: La nature humaine degrade, la principale cause de la crise de la famille et de la société

Le mot crise semble être le plus fréquent sur les lèvres des hommes de notre temps. De part le monde entier, on parle beaucoup des crises économique, sociale, familiale et celle des valeurs. Beaucoup veulent découvrir les causes de ces crises perpétuelles afin de proposer des solutions pour y remédier. Une simple étude des causes ne suffit pas pour les identifier. Une recherche plus approfondie est nécessaire, celle de la foi humaine et chrétienne qui dépasse les limites de la raison humaine et qui regarde les réalités de l’existence dans une autre perspective. A travers la puissance de la foi on peut arriver à la découverte de la véritable cause qui a généré la crise actuelle de notre société. La foi, fondée sur la Révélation biblique, nous montre que la véritable cause de la crise de la société humaine est la rébellion des premiers gens contre Dieu, à savoir le péché originel. Il a produit la plus grande catastrophe de la nature humaine, en la blessant grièvement et en la faisant esclave de sa propre impuissance et du Diable. La vraie cause de tous les maux sociaux est le péché originel qui a gravement blessé la nature humaine.

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Iosif ENĂŞOAE: Christian Parents, Children’s First Educators according to the Documents of the Second Vatican Council

The first and irreplaceable mission of the Christian parents is to be real educators for their children. Having called their children to the banquet of life, Christian parents have the foremost and specific right and, at the same time the, duty to be involved in a total and responsible manner in children’s growth and the whole education process. Aware of the fact that each of their children has the same human dignity as their parents’ dignity, such parents have the duty to educate and train children so that the latter can fully live their vocation, in accordance with human dignity, while promoting personal and common good.
According to the Documents of the Second Vatican Council, the education children have to receive from their parents is complex and shall include all aspects of human life: physical, psychological, religious, moral, social and vocational. To adequately fulfil their mission, parents will make responsible choices in choosing the kindergarten, primary and secondary school and high school for their children; such institutions shall support children and help them in their pedagogical itinerary. From Christian perspective, the most important commitment made by spouses when receiving the sacrament of Matrimony is to transmit faith to their children by Baptism, and to preserve and develop this gift received through catechesis, prayer and personal example. The current education crisis – the result of erroneous ideologies – often encountered also in our families, can be overcome by changing this wrong mentality. This mentality refuses to accept the fact that children are a gift God makes to human family and society, while arguing that children are rather obstacles for the development of their parents or a right owed to such parents. The teaching of the Second Vatican Council is the most appropriate guide for Christian parents called to fulfil their mission of providing their children with a genuine human and Christian education.

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Dialog Teologic XIV/28 (2011)

Dialog Teologic XIV/28 (2011)
Preotul și familia creștinaă colaboratori în ogorul Bisericii și martori ai împărăției lui Dumnezeu în lume, 194 p., 17×24, ISSN 1453-8075, 9 lei.
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Stefan Lupu
Toţi preoţi în Cristos: fundamentul sacramental al misiunii preotului şi a familiei creştine
Starting from the premise to the sacrament of baptism every Christian is made a priest, Fr. Dr. Stefan Lupu analyzes sacramental foundation of the mission of the priest and the Christian family in society. In the first part of the article, the author seeks to highlight the cultural context of this mission, which is the Christian world. In the second part of the article deal about rediscovering the common priesthood of the faithful with the Council of Vatican II. With scriptural texts as a basis, the author speaks of a people „all priestly” and then, from Lumen Gentium no. 10 show as „recovered” baptismal priesthood. Hence the new face of the Church, which is a people Messianic mission, as the new man, living become „loving relationship with God,” being fulfilled in Jesus and the true glory of God. Form of baptismal priesthood, according to the author, is spirituality / culture Eucharist and best title for this priesthood is the „Mother Church”. In the third part analyzes the spirituality of communion as a form of pastoral action, is especially emphasized pastoral value of this community.

Cristinel Fodor
Sacramentalizare vs. evanghelizare: cum sunt trăite sacramentele, în special Botezul, Euharistia, Spovada, Căsătoria, în comunităţile din dieceza noastră.
The theme that treats the author would like to contribute to those things which the Church invites repeatedly: to renew our liturgical celebrations, preparing for graces received in the sacraments and developing them for the sacrament, the faithful enter into communion with the Holy Trinity, to experience participation in the divine nature and, thus, they should be built by the Church as a sign and realization of God’s presence in the world. After a theoretical presentation of their authors proceed to analyze their practice, that is to analyze how the preparations for receiving the sacraments become fruitful. The author deals with how we look at those who ask for the sacraments, how long preparations and the creation of a model of training as prescribed by the Church, about some rules to be followed in the first meeting, how to address unbelievers during the administration of the sacraments, ending with mystagogy of the first meeting. Then, one by one analyzed in the light of these premises, preparing to receive the sacraments and how they are administered.

Pr. Isidor IACOVICI
Familia și fenomenul emigrării
Assuming that none of the family who went abroad did not choose this way of looking at God, to the saints, but to earn money, which is the author analyzes the phenomenon of immigration issues and the impact of this phenomenon on family. First, the author indicates that the family is forced to emigrate and highlights the reasons for this need, but also dangers involved. Another painful reality treated by Fr. James I. Nonconformity is the promise to reality in the sending country. In this context, the author talks about church involvement in immigration phenomenon by sending priests to spiritual care of their countrymen by helping immigrants and different cultural and spiritual manifestations. Further, the author analyzes the family in the context of migration and its consequences, among which is that of coexistence sacrament against which they are made some arguments and remedies. Finally, it deals with immigrants and jobs they provide in the host country.

Pr. Iosif IACOB
Căsătoria, sacrament al noii alianțe
Documents of Vatican II as Lumen Gentium, Apostolicam Actuositatem, Sacrosanctum Concilium, and especially Gaudium et Spes highlight the interest that the Church manifests for the Sacrament of Matrimony, in the context of developments and new vision proposed by the present society (divorce, abortion, feminist movements etc.).The contemporary society, following a long and reinforced theological tradition of marriage, is called to implement into the family life of our times, the principles proposed by the gospel in order to live a married life “in Christ”.The biblical vision of the human person, the way the nature and the grace are perceived are points of departure and reference for a complex and objective view on the sacrament of marriage. The nature, the value, the effects and purposes of marriage proposed by the ecclesiastical tradition are fundamental aspects that give consistency to the consent of sacramental marriage.The conjugal morality has its ultimate foundation not in human laws but in the divine laws that man cannot change according to its own interests. The state, as representative and guardian of the community wellbeing, is charged with promoting the values   and principles for the good of the family and implicitly of the society itself, whose basic unit is the family. In this regard the Council encourages the closeness between the values   of the doctrine and the spirit of today’s society, as well as raising public awareness to doctrinal lasting values   of faith. The personalist vision proposed by the council, as well as the vocation to holiness in married life, along with what love and procreation represents in a full and stable community of conjugal life corresponds to the values proposed by  the Church as a sacramental reality of marriage, according to Christ’s will for the wellbeing of the person and all mankind.

Pr.  Iulian-Valerian Ianuş
Conceptul de persoană la Jacques Maritain
The Christian anthropology has at its base the concept of the person. The anthropologic oration of Jacques Maritain is focused on the human person as well, with its own characteristics. Maritain, commentator of Tomas de Aquino, takes from Thomism the general structure of his anthropology. His oration starts from the distinction between „specimen” and „person”, present distinction since first works. For the Maritain anthropology is characteristic that it is a metaphysical base. In this respect, we find in the texts of the French thinker a profound analysis of the ontological structure of a person: subsistence, understood as that, in its specific nature, has its being in and for itself; and personality (in a metaphysical sense, not psychological), seen as a balance between subjectivity and objectivity, between independence and dependence, through which the child is growing up and accepts actively the human condition.

Pr.  Iulian Faraoanu
Așteptarea creștină a venirii Fiului Omului (Lc 17,26-30)
The eschatology problem is present everywhere in Saint Luke gospel. But, the tension and the eschatology waiting are in a close relationship with the history.
The fragment from Lc 17,26-30 is included in the same eschatology domain, more precise the theme related to the waiting of Jesus second coming. The comparison with the days of Noah and Lot have an exhortatory function, inviting the people of the Saint Luke community to look at the heavenly realities. The delay of Christ’s second coming does not have to determine a life orientated only to the humanly activities, in this forgetting God. The waiting of Christ’s coming must always be alive, knowing that the Lord may come soon and his coming must find us ready.

Dialog Teologic IV/8 (2001)

Dialog Teologic IV/8 (2001)
Familia creștină, încontro?, 274 p., 17×24, 7 RON.

PS Petru GHERGHEL
Familia creştină şi căsătoria
Taking into account the happened changes within the last years in the life of Christian families in the Iaşi diocese, changes that were caused mainly by the poverty of family maintenance resources, the bishop Petru Gherghel affirms that the families must be supported and helped more, both materially (by the State/society) and spiritually (by the Church). Due to social, spiritual, economical and political problems, nowadays there is a loss from sight of the care towards the unity of the family and for the indisolubility of the marriage; thus, the promotion of a „pro Christian family” mentality and behaviour is necessary.

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Anton BUDĂU (†)
Imaginea biblică a familiei
This study affirms that the family’s image in Romania has been deteriorated by the reductional interpretations concerning man and family, that the comunist regime, based on the marxist-leninist ideology, propagated. For a correct understanding of the family, we must invoke the inexhaustible source represented by the Holy Scripture. Within it, we find out that the family is created by God (not by man), that family means life shared to others (children: brothers and sisters; etc.), that sons must respect their parents, that life is a sacred gift and must be accepted accordingly, that the model of inside family relations is the saint family from Nazareth, that the love between husband and wife finds its exemplary model in the love between Jesus Christ and His Church. In conclusion, the article pleeds for the respect of the divine plan concerning the family.

Robert LAZU
Sexualitate şi procreare
The essay analyses the relation between sexuality and procreation as seen in the perspective of the Christian faith that is transmitted by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. The recipients of this conference are some of the Christians from both East and West Church, that disregard the teachings of the Church on this subject. The guiding idea is this: the sexuality isn’t an egocentrical way of obtaining a pleasure, but an aspect of human life, that involves the highest degree of responsability, being chained in a indisoluble way to the exigence of birth and development of children inside the familial environment.

Mihai PATRAŞCU
Desfacerea legăturii matrimoniale în legislaţia civilă şi canonică a imperiului bizantin din secolele VI-X
The study shows the historic evolution of the conception concerning the indisolubility and the principle of matrimonial bond dissolvement, the different causes of divorce that are encountered in the VI-X centuries, both in the Byzantine statal legislation and in the oriental canonic discipline. The treating of these problems is made in two moments: 1) the analysis of the roman concept of marriage in the IV-V centuries; 2) the analysis of the influence of the Christian consideration on the byzantine right. The work’s character is historical and juridical.

Alois BIŞOC
Identitatea teologică şi spirituală a familiei în magisteriul papei Paul al VI-lea
The study analyses the divine-human ontology of the family in the teachings of pope Paul VI: what is the family in God’s initial plan? how was the family sanctified by Christ? and about the family’s essence as a „familial Church”. The impulses and decisions of this Sovereign Pontiff refering to the actualisation and promotion of the family’s identitiy are also underlined. Paul VI is profoundly convinced that the goal of the Christian family is possible, but must be promoted by a well conceived and organised pastoral activity.

Wilhelm DANCĂ
Familia ca formă de rezistenţă la ideologii. Introducere în operele de tinereţe ale papei Ioan Paul al II-lea
The teaching of pope John Paul II on the ireplaceble role of the family in the development and formation of the true man, the educated man, has roots in his pastoral activity carried on in the Polish Church under the totalitary comunist regime, as in his literary and filosophical works published before he was elected as bishop of Rome. The lesson about family learned by Karol Wojtyla in Polland contains interesting and fascinating chapters; two of them have interest to this study: 1) the activity of the catholic priest (bachelor, single man) in the middle and to the favour of the families is based on the gospel and on the experience mediated with their problems; 2) the united family feeds on the responsable (and opened to transmiting life) love. The study affirms that the correct understanding of John Paul II’s teaching on family must revaluate both his doctrine and real gestures by which this courageous pope manifests his love towards the human family.

Wilhelm DANCĂ (coord.)
„Familia creştină” în magisteriul papei Ioan Paul al II-lea. Antologie de texte magisteriale
Pope John Paul II talked about family with many occasions – the pastoral of the family being one of the fundamental coordinates of his pontificate. The structure of the apostolic advice Familiaris consortio (1981) as an orientative base in the selection of the most signifing in the magisterium of Saint Father concerning the family theme, on which an teaching edifice was built, arranged in four main parts: family today, lights and shadows; God’s plan on marriage and family; Christian family duties, the persons and their role; the serving of life. In these selected texts one can find principles of understanding and resolving of the problems that the families encounter in their path in life. The present anthology is adressed to the youth, the catechists, the priests that prepare the youth to marriage and, in a special way, to the formed families or to the families that need human and spiritual formation.