AMERICA/PARAGUAY - "Only with families one can think to build the new Paraguay": the Pastoral Letter on the Family has been presented

Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The first day of the novena to Our Lady of Miracles of Caacupé, on November 28, the Episcopal Conference of Paraguay (CEP) presented the Pastoral Letter on the Family, which opens the three years dedicated to the family. The presentation was was aken care of by His Exc. Mgr. Adalberto Martínez Flores, Bishop of San Pedro Apostol and Secretary General of the CEP, who said: "The family is the patrimony of our people and the foundation of the new Paraguay. The future of humanity is built in the family! The Bishops of Paraguay deliver this pastoral letter on f the family to priests, deacons, religious, lay faithful and all people of good will".
The document deals with reflection, analysis, doctrinal foundation, call to action, and proposes to offer the thought of Bishops on the reality that affects and involves families in Paraguay in order to provide guidance to all members of the Catholic Church in the country, to the people who desire the common good, in the important and necessary work of building strong families, based on marriage between a man and a woman, open to life.
Mgr. Martinez said that this pastoral letter comes from the Bishops’ heart, as an expression of his paternal solicitude for the fundamental cell of society, which is the family. He concluded by saying: "Only with intact strong and happy families, one can think of rebuilding the social fabric and national morale, which in turn, will design and build the new Paraguay that we all want." The Bishops of Paraguay have asked for this pastoral letter to be read, viewed, processed and translated into concrete actions in all pastoral ecclesial communities of the nation. (CE) (Agenzia Fides 30/11/2011)