Accompanying, Discerning, Integrating: A Handbook for the Pastoral Care of the Family According to Amoris Laetitia: A Handbook for the Pastoral Care of the Family According to Amoris Laetitia

by JosÃÂÂ Granados, Stephan Kampowski, Juan JosÃÂÂ PÃÂÂrez-Soba

Overview

The Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia has given rise to different interpretations. Any in-depth study of its theological conclusions will undoubtedly require time and patience. What cannot wait, however, is attending to the practical questions it has raised. After all, no one can abstain from acting: priests hearing confessions, bishops who need to give guidelines on pastoral activity to their priests, and families working in the field of pastoral care. Accompanying, Discerning, Integrating: A Handbook for the Pastoral Care of the Family According to Amoris Laetitia is intended to offer sure practical guidelines on this important matter of the Church's pastoral activity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781945125362
Publisher:	Emmaus Road Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/2017
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Accompanying: The Patience of a Path 1

1 The Familial Subject That Transforms The Emotive Subject 4

2 Jesus Christ Teaches Us To Accompany 6

3 Accompanying In True Love 7

4 The Family, The First Place Of Accompaniment 13

5 Requirements For A Pastoral Care Of Accompaniment 15

6 Gradualness: The Law of Accompaniment 17

7 The Process of Accompaniment 26

8 An Initial Concern of Accompaniment: Marriage Preparation 29

9 The Specific Accompaniment of Families: The First Years of Marriage and the Maturing of Love 36

10 Accompanying in Frailty: The Difficult Cases 42

11 "Irregular" Cases 45

12 The Internal Forum 47

13 Three Steps along a Path 49

Chapter 2 Integrating: The Return to Full Communion 59

1 The Goal of the Path; Integrating into the Full Life of Christ 60

2 Incomplete Participation and a Path of Integration 62

3 Healing the Wounds That Prevent Full Participation 65

4 A Sacramental Itinerary 68

5 The Itinerary of Repentance 70

6 On the Way to the Eucharist 73

7 Clarifications of Some Footnotes of the Document That Have Been Misinterpreted 76

8 What, Then, Are the New Ways Opened up by the Apostolic Exhortation? 78

9 How Can We Encourage These Divorced Persons on Their Journey toward Fuller Participation? 79

10 Integrating: Building One's House Upon the Rock 81

Chapter 3 Discerning: A Path in the Light of Truth 85

1 Discernment Does Not Mean Judging a Person's State of Grace 87

2 Discernment Does Not Mean Evaluating the Person's Concrete Possibilities So as to Adapt the Moral Law to Them 97

3 The Goal of Discernment 103

4 The Method of Discernment: Thinking With the Church 106

5 The Objects of Discernment 107