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Amoris laetitia : the joy of love : post-synodal apostolic exhortation on love in the family.
Contents: In the light of the word -- You and your wife -- Your children are as the shoots of an olive tree -- A Path Of Suffering And Blood -- The Work Of Your Hands -- The Tenderness Of An Embrace -- Two The Experiences and Challenges of Families -- The Current Reality Of The Family -- Some Challenges -- Looking to Jesus: the Vocation of the Family -- Jesus Restores And Fulfills God's Plan -- The Family In The Documents of The Church -- The Sacrament Of Matrimony -- Seeds Of The Word And Imperfect Situations -- The Transmission Of Life And The Rearing Of Children -- The Family And The Church -- Love in Marriage -- Our Daily Love -- Growing In Conjugal Love -- Passionate Love -- The Transformation Of Love -- Love Made Fruitful -- Welcoming A New Life -- An Expanding Fruitfulness -- Life In The Wider Family -- Some Pastoral Perspectives -- Proclaiming The Gospel Of The Family Today -- Preparing Engaged Couples For Marriage -- Accompanying The First Years Of Married Life -- Casting Light On Crises, Worries And Difficulties -- When Death Makes us Feel Its Sting -- Towards A Better Education of Children -- Where Are Our Children? -- The Ethical Formation Of Children -- The Value Of Correction as an incentive -- Patient realism -- Family Life As An Educational Setting -- The Need For Sex Education -- Passing On The Faith -- Accompanying, Discerning and Integrating Weakness -- Gradualness In Pastoral Care -- The Discernment Of 'Irregular' Situations -- Mitigating Factors In Pastoral Discernment -- Rules And Discernment -- The Logic Of Pastoral Mercy -- The Spirituality of Marriage and the Family -- A Spirituality Of Supernatural Communion -- Gathered In Prayer In The Light Of Easter -- A Spirituality Of Exclusive And Free Love -- A Spirituality Of Care, Consolation And Incentive.
Summary: This much-awaited Apostolic Exhortation is the conclusion of a two-year synod process discussing both the beauty and challenges of family life today. The 2015 Synod's theme was the vocation and mission of the family in the Church and the modern world.