Council 112 This is the Faith March 2007

Tony Marino is an Air Force veteran who later received a degree in English Literature at Long Island University. For more than 30 years, he was an insurance agent for Aetna before eventually becoming a private insurance consultant. Since his retirement in 2003, he has devoted himself to the service of St. Peter's Parish in Concord and the Right to Life movement in New Hampshire. Tony has been married to his wife, Annette for more than 40 years. They have ten children and 22 grandchildren.

IV. “HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE LONG IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD GIVES YOU.”

In our last essay on the Fourth Commandment, we discussed the Christian definition of family, i.e. “the uniting of a man and a woman, together with their children, form a family.” It is also clear, that marriage and the family is “ordered to the good of the spouses” even where procreation of children is not possible. “God created man and woman, and in so doing, endowed the family with its fundamental constitution.” This fundamental constitution “is a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” The family is described in the Catechism as an “original cell of social life”. Family members learn to live in a way which teaches responsibility for the care of the young, the old, the sick, the handicapped, and the poor. In some cases, there are families who are incapable of fulfilling their responsibilities, and it therefore devolves upon other families, and the society, in a subsidiary way, to provide for the needs of those families. As individuals, and as members of families, we have the obligation to recognize the importance of family life, and the importance of the family in the support of the “well-being of society”. This obligation further requires us to support and strengthen marriage and the family, and to insure that civil authority considers it a grave duty, “to acknowledge the true nature of marriage and the family, to protect and foster them”, and to “safeguard public morality”.

In my next essay, I will be discussing the “duties” of the Fourth Commandment. Please see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition, pages 532 through 533, paragraphs 2204 through 2213. Read your catechism, it’s what we believe.

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