As 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia draws near; framework of Preparatory Document for October meeting is published

 

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Vatican publishes Preparatory Document for October Meeting on 'Amoris Laetitia'

The Vatican publishes the Preparatory Document for the October 2026 Meeting on 'Amoris Laetitia,' marking ten years since the publishing of the late Pope Francis' Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the family.

By Vatican News

The Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life and the General Secretariat of the Synod have published the Thematic framework, the Preparatory Document that will lead the Meeting convened by Pope Leo XIV, to be held in the Vatican from 7-14 October 2026 with the Heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences.

The Document has been sent to the Heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches sui iuris and to the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences and is being made public today.

The thematic framework is intended to prepare for and accompany the work of the Meeting that Pope Leo XIV will hold with them in the Vatican from 7 to 14 October 2026.

The Meeting was first announced by the Holy Father in his message of 19 March 2026, marking the tenth anniversary of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia.

Acknowledging the profound changes that continue to affect families, the Pope expressed his desire “to proceed, in mutual listening, to a synodal discernment on the steps to be taken in order to proclaim the Gospel to families today, in light of Amoris laetitia and taking into account what is currently being done in the local Churches.”

At the conclusion of the recent extraordinary Consistory on 27 June, Pope Leo XIV returned to the theme of the family: “Where the family is supported and accompanied, there grows a school of relationships, solidarity and hope; where it is wounded or isolated, the whole of society bears the consequences.”

On the same occasion, he announced that several families would also take part in the Meeting, sharing their lived experience. 

In Rome, the Bishops from around the world will be invited to engage with the themes proposed in the Thematic framework and to listen attentively to one another, so that, upon returning to their local Churches, they may renew, together with families, a shared pastoral commitment in support of the family, human life, and the vocation to marriage.

The days of the Meeting are intended to provide a genuine space for encounter, listening, and discernment: welcoming the lived experience of families, sharing concrete stories of life, reflecting on the pastoral initiatives through which the ecclesial community accompanies families, and engaging in dialogue with experts.

For this reason, the Episcopal Conferences and the Eastern Catholic Churches are invited to begin reflecting on the proposed themes in the months leading up to the Meeting, placing particular emphasis on listening to the families of their local Churches.

This is, therefore, an eminently pastoral journey, one that places families at its centre not merely as recipients of the Church's pastoral care, but as active subjects of her mission, through whom the Gospel takes flesh in everyday relationships, choices, struggles, and hope.

Although the Meeting is not an Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, it will be conducted in a synodal style because – as Pope Leo XIV indicated at the conclusion of the Consistory – it shares the spirit of the Synod’s implementation process, marked by listening, prayer, and discernment.

Five thematic areas are being proposed for reflection, both in preparation for and during the Meeting.

The themes are: Families today: reality, beauty and challenges — Discerning the signs of the times through the experience of families and the Church’s pastoral commitment today; Young people and the discovery of the vocation to marriage — Listening to young people and accompanying them in discovering the value of marriage; Married life. The first years of marriage: a decisive time — Listening to and accompanying couples in the early years of married life and at every stage of life; In the difficulties of life: accompanying and supporting — Walking with families in complex situations; Christian families as subjects of the Church’s mission — Embracing conjugal and family love as an impetus for mission.  

The Thematic framework is available in several languages on https://www.laityfamilylife.va and https://www.synod.va.

Pope Leo XIV closes out the Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals

 

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Pope closes Consistory, 'an experience of communion at service of mission'

Pope Leo XIV delivers his closing address for the Extraordinary Synod of Cardinals, focusing on hope, synodality, and the Church’s responsibility in a world marked by war and a crisis in human relationships.

By Sebastián Sansón Ferrari

Before offering a concluding reflection of the Extraordinary Consistory held from 26 to 27 June 2026 at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness, together with the entire College of Cardinals, to the people of Venezuela, “severely struck by the violent earthquake of these days.”

“We assure our prayers for the victims, for their families, and for all those suffering the consequences of this tragedy. We also entrust to the Lord all those involved in rescue operations, and we ask that the solidarity of the international community toward that beloved nation may not falter.,” the Pope added.

From the New Synod Hall on Saturday the 27th, Pope Leo delivered a wide-ranging address in which he began by emphasizing: “We now come to the end of these days with a deep sense of gratitude. I thank you for the freedom, fraternity, and ecclesial spirit with which you took part in our work. I carry with me not only the content of your reflections, but also the experience that made them possible.”

“We have sought together the will of the Lord, convinced that Christ continues to act in his Church: it is He who goes before us, gathers us, speaks through our brothers, and leads us in mission. Everything comes from Him and everything returns to Him,” he continued. For this reason, he said that “seeing Cardinals from such diverse Churches, cultures, and situations listening to one another and seeking together what best serves the Gospel has been for me a source of consolation and hope.”

At the heart of his reflection, the Pope insisted that synodality must not be understood as an organizational method or a sequence of meetings, but as a way of being Church.

The real question of synodality is not who has the power to decide, but 'how do we together safeguard the gift that the Lord has entrusted to his Church?'” he stated.

According to the Pope, this journey is born of encounter, grows through mutual listening, and matures through discernment guided by the Holy Spirit. He therefore asked the cardinals to promote the implementation of the synodal process in their particular Churches, fostering an authentic understanding of it.

The wounds of the world

Pope Leo also noted that during the Consistory the cardinals shared their concern for the wars, poverty, injustices, and violence affecting many peoples around the world. However, he said that behind these tragedies lies an even deeper crisis: "loneliness, the crisis of relationships, the loss of hope, and the difficulty of recognizing one another as brothers and sisters."

The Pope particularly highlighted the situation of young people, whose search for meaning and authenticity—and, in some cases, suffering that even leads to taking one’s own life—represents "one of the deepest wounds of our time."

A moment during the closing of the Consistory (@Vatican Media)

He also underlined the importance of the family as a school of relationships, solidarity, and hope. In this context, he announced a meeting in October with the leaders of the Eastern Churches and the presidents of episcopal conferences to evaluate the reception of Amoris Laetitia, in which families will also take part.

A culture of dialogue against the logic of war

One passage of the address was dedicated to peace. In it, Pope Leo stated that the cardinals clearly grasped one of the insights of the encyclical Magnifica humanitas: War does not arise only from conflicts between states, but from a “culture of power” that permeates human relationships, economics, politics, technology, and even religion.

In response, he proposed rebuilding a culture of cooperation and dialogue, strengthening multilateralism, and promoting the participation of lay people in public life inspired by the Church’s social doctrine.

The Pope also defended non-violent response as a profoundly evangelical option, clarifying that it does not mean passivity, but rather confronting conflicts without reproducing the logic of hatred.

In this context, he revealed that several working groups had requested deeper theological and pastoral reflection on legitimate defense in light of the changes affecting contemporary conflicts.

A Church that witnesses before it organizes

Pope Leo insisted that the renewal of the Church does not depend only on structural reforms, but above all on the witness of communities capable of living the Gospel credibly.

“The Church is called to become ever more fully what it proclaims,” he said, emphasizing that all institutional reform will bear fruit only if it arises from encounter with Christ and sacramental life.

The Pope also reiterated his intention to continue this annual gathering starting next year. He clarified that the date has not yet been set, but he hopes to announce it by the end of this year.

A final appeal for peace

At the conclusion of his address, Pope Leo fully adopted as his own the unanimous appeal that emerged from the Consistory and invited the cardinals to pass it on to all the churches and peoples of the world.

“God continues to open paths of reconciliation and peace in history. We have the responsibility to walk them with courage and to help the world recognize them,” he said.

He also thanked everyone for their contribution, “as well as the Relators, the Moderators, and all those who, with generosity and discretion, made these days of work and fraternity possible.”

“Thank you for helping me, once again, to recognize the work that Christ continues to accomplish among his people and in the world. We entrust the fruits of this Consistory to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church. May she teach us to preserve unity in diversity and to serve the Gospel of peace with humility, courage, and hope. Thank you!”

Pope Leo XIV reflects on Amoris Laetitia on the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' encyclical on marriage & family

 

Pope Leo XIV meets a newly wed couple at the General Audience  (@VATICAN MEDIA)

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Pope convokes presidents of Bishops’ Conferences for meeting on families

Ten years after its publication, Pope Leo XIV praises the “valuable teachings” of Amoris Laetitia, and convokes presidents of Bishops’ Conferences to Rome in October 2026 for a meeting to discuss ways to proclaim the Gospel to families today.

By Joseph Tulloch & Devin Watkins

A decade ago, Pope Francis published Amoris Laetitia, the Apostolic Exhortation on “love in the family," inspired by the Synods of Bishops of 2014 and 2015.

In a letter published on Wednesday, March 19, Pope Leo XIV praised the document as a “luminous message of hope regarding conjugal love and family life."

The 2016 Exhortation “encouraged reflection and pastoral conversion in the Church,” the Pope wrote, and “offers valuable teachings that we must continue to examine today.”

READ THE FULL TEXT OF THE POPE’S MESSAGE HERE

Meeting scheduled for October

In his letter, Pope Leo noted that we live in an era of “rapid changes,” including with regard to the family.

In light of these changes, the Pope announced he has decided to convene a meeting of the presidents of Bishops’ Conferences for a meeting in Rome in October 2026.

The Pope said the event will provide an opportunity “to proceed, in mutual listening, to a synodal discernment on the steps to be taken in order to proclaim the Gospel to families today, in light of Amoris Laetitia and taking into account what is currently being done in the local Churches.”

New pastoral methods

In his letter, Pope Leo described Amoris Laetitia as one of two Apostolic Exhortations since the Second Vatican Council which had “strengthened the Church’s doctrinal and pastoral commitment” to the service of families—the other being Pope John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio, published in 1981.

What Pope Francis had realized, Pope Leo wrote, is that “anthropological and cultural changes” in the family required “mutual listening” within the people of God, an insight which led him to call the Synods of Bishops on the family and, eventually, to write Amoris Laetitia.

What Pope Francis understood, said Pope Leo, was “it is not possible to speak about the family without engaging families themselves, listening to their joys and their hopes, their sorrows and their anguish.”

He thanked God for “the stimulus that has encouraged reflection and pastoral conversion in the Church.”

The family forms the basis of society, offering a “school for human enrichment,” he said, quoting the Second Vatican Council document Gaudium et Spes.

“Through the sacrament of marriage, Christian spouses form a kind of ‘domestic church,’ whose role is essential for teaching and transmitting the faith,” said the Pope.

However, he added, much in society has changed over the past several decades, which led to Pope Francis urging the 2015 Synod of Bishops to listen to the Holy Spirit and to families’ hopes, joys, sorrows, and anguish.

Proclaiming Gospel of the family to younger generations

Amoris Laetitia, said Pope Leo, offers valuable teachings on the biblical hope of God’s loving and merciful presence amid family crises; the call for marriage to always give life within the family; and the need for contemporary pastoral methods that help parents educate children and find depth of spirituality in their family life.

He called on the Church to find new ways to “evoke the beauty of the vocation to marriage precisely in the recognition of fragility,” so as to serve the mission of proclaiming the Gospel of the family to younger generations.

“We must also support families, especially those suffering from the many forms of poverty and violence present in contemporary society,” he said.

Pope Leo XIV concluded his letter on Amoris Laetitia by urging the Church to renew and deepen her commitment to the family, so that married couples may “fully live out their conjugal love, and that young people may feel attracted, within the Church, to the beauty of the vocation to marriage.”

Pope seeking to strengthen the bonds of family and marriage

 

Pope Francis greets a family attending the audience in the Vatican  (Vatican Media)

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Pope: Church seeks to strengthen bonds of family and marriage

Pope Francis urges Catholic universities to research how different cultures view marriage, saying the Church seeks to accompany families on their path to holiness.

By Devin Watkins

Meeting with professors and staff of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences on Monday, Pope Francis upheld the centrality of the family in the Church’s life.

“We know how decisive marriage and family are for the life of peoples: the Church has always cared for them, supported them, and evangelized them,” he said.

The Pope lamented that there are countries where public authorities “do not respect the dignity and freedom to which every human being has an inalienable right as a child of God.”

This attitude, he added, results in restrictions that weigh most heavily on women, often confining them to subordinate roles.

Rather than erasing the difference between man and woman in response, said the Pope, the Church teaches that there can be no discrimination between the two, since all belong to Christ and are part of God’s plan of salvation.

Accompanying those who struggle with past wounds

Pope Francis went on to note that the Gospel of the family is founded on the Sacrament of Marriage, which provides a path for people of all cultures to grow in holiness.

“The Church today does not close her doors to those struggling on their journey of faith,” he said. “Instead, she opens them wide because ‘all require merciful and encouraging pastoral care’.”

Citing his Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the Pope invited pastoral workers to accompany people “who cohabitate while indefinely postponing their marital commitment,” as well as those who have divorced and remarried.

“Their presence in the Church testifies to their desire to persevere in faith, despite the wounds of painful experiences,” he said.

The Church, noted the Pope, excludes no one but constantly promotes the family, seeking to strengthen the bonds of marriage in love.

Studying culture and perception of marriage and family

Culture, said Pope Francis, is closely linked to people’s view of marriage and family, saying the Gospel must be inculturated while still evangelizing culture.

“Our ability to address these challenges determines the extent to which we can fully carry out the Church's evangelizing mission, which involves every Christian,” he said.

The JPII Pontifical Theological Institute can contribute to this mission by helping the Church understand how different societies and cultures view marriage and family, said the Pope.

“May the Institute support spouses and families in their mission worldwide, helping them to be living stones of the Church and witnesses of fidelity, service, openness to life, and hospitality,” concluded Pope Francis. “Let us walk together in the footsteps of Christ!”

Pope Francis remembers Dr. MLK, Jr. through Amoris Laetitia

 

POPE FRANCIS ON MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Love bears every trial with a positive attitude. It stands firm in hostile surroundings. This “endurance” involves not only the ability to tolerate certain aggravations, but something greater: a constant readiness to confront any challenge. It is a love that never gives up, even in the darkest hour. It shows a certain dogged heroism, a power to resist every negative current, an irrepressible commitment to goodness.

Here I think of the words of Martin Luther King, who met every kind of trial and tribulation with fraternal love:

“The person who hates you most has some good in him; even the nation that hates you most has some good in it; even the race that hates you most has some good in it. And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls ‘the image of God’, you begin to love him in spite of [everything]. No matter what he does, you see God’s image there. There is an element of goodness that he can never sluff off… Another way that you love your enemy is this: when the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it… When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system… Hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and so on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil… Somebody must have religion enough and morality enough to cut it off and inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love.”

— From Amoris Laetitia, citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1957 sermon given at Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

A new family initiative begins on Feast of St. Joseph

 

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Church ‘exults with joy’ at Year Amoris Laetitia Family

Officials from the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, along with a married couple, introduce the Year “Amoris Laetitia Family,” which begins on March 19 – the Solemnity of St Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

By Christopher Wells

“The Year ‘Amoris Laetitia Family’ has truly made the Church exult with joy,” says Gabriella Gambino, under-secretary of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life.

Speaking at a press conference introducing the initiative, Dr Gambino, a wife and mother of five, said the Year “is an occasion to give a boost to pastoral ministry for the family, seeking to renew means and strategies, and perhaps even some of the goals of pastoral planning.”

Dr Gambino’s presentation highlighted the efforts of the Dicastery to provide pastoral tools for families, parishes, and dioceses, in order to support their ministries.

Heralds of the Good News

Also present at the press conference was the prefect of the Dicastery, Cardinal Kevin Farrell. He emphasized that “it belongs to the Church’s mission to always be a herald of the good news of the Gospel.”

Recalling the words quoted by Pope Francis at the beginning of Amoris laetitia – “The Christian proclamation on the family is good news indeed” – Cardinal Farrell said, “It is more appropriate than ever, therefore, to dedicate an entire pastoral year to the Christian family, because presenting God’s plan for the family to the world is a source of joy and hope. It is truly good news!”

The Cardinal outlined three particular aspects of the pastoral renewal called for by Pope Francis: greater collaboration; a change of mentality that would allow us to see the family as protagonists, and not simply as objects, of pastoral ministry; and the formation of formators, that is, those who train future ministers.

A horizon of hope

Finally, a married couple, Valentina and Leonardo, expressed their hopes for the Year “Amoris Laetitia Family.” They said they are looking forward to “living out” their relationship of belonging to the Church “with a renewed spirit” in a period characterized by the Covid-19 health emergency, but also marked by concrete prospects for improvement of the situation.

“It is in this horizon of hope,” they said, “that we welcome Pope Francis’ invitation to live the contents of Amoris laetitia in all their richness.”

Valentina and Leonardo spoke about the daily experience of family life, emphasizing the importance of “simple words and gestures, which… spring from deep attitudes of openness, respect, patience, trust, sharing and forgiveness.” They noted, too, the importance, during a time of social distancing, of finding creative ways to reach out to other families.

“The Year will also be a good time to become aware of our ecclesial mission,” they said, “to which we dedicate ourselves as a family, and not only on a personal level.”

The hope, they said, “is that we families can feel committed to contributing to evangelization and allow ourselves to be generously involved in the Christian proclamation.”

Initiatives of the Dicastery

Several initiatives being promoted by the Dicastery were announced at the press conference. Beginning on Monday, a series of ten videos will be launched on social media, with families sharing their experiences, and Pope Francis responding to the issues they raise. The videos are intended as a form of dialogue.

“Our Dicastery will take a diligent part in disseminating some pastoral tools for families, parishes, and dioceses,” said Dr Gambino. In addition to material produced by the Dicastery, she said “most of the resources will come from the dioceses, movements, and family associations, which, under out impetus and in a spirit of authentic communion, are working hard to implement all that they already do well, and to take new initiatives.”

Objectives of Amoris Laetitia Family Year

 

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Objectives and Initiatives of ‘Amoris Laetitia Family’ Year

Explanations of the Organizing Dicastery

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The “Amoris Laetitia Family” Year (March 19, 2021- June 26, 2022) has five objectives, pointed out the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life on December 27, 2020. “To spread the Document’s content,” “to proclaim that the Sacrament of Marriage is a gift,” to render families actors of the family pastoral,” “to make young people conscious of the importance of formation to the truth of love and of the gift of oneself,” “to broaden the gaze and action of the family pastoral . . . so as to include spouses, children, young people, the elderly and situations of family fragility.”

Among the “initiatives” already planned, is a “day for grandparents and elderly people,” but also a Forum in June 2021, and ten videos of Pope Francis on the Document, testimonies of handicapped people, pastoral proposals, preparatory catecheses for Rome’s 10th World Meeting of Families in June 2022.

The Dicastery quotes first of all the Post-Synodal Document: “The Christian proclamation concerning the family is truly good news” (Amoris Laetitia, 1).

 Opening and Closing

 Pope Francis will open the “Amoris Laetitia Family” Year on March 19, 2021. On that day the Church will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the publication of the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia “on the beauty and the joy of family love.” He will close it on June 26, 2022, on the occasion of the 10th World Meeting of Families in Rome.

This is how the organizing Dicastery explains the “project.” The “Amoris Laetitia” Year is an initiative of Pope Francis, which intends to touch the world’s families through different proposals of a spiritual, pastoral and cultural nature, able to be implemented in parishes, dioceses, Universities, Ecclesial Movements, and family Associations.”

“The pandemic experience has made evident the central role of the family as domestic Church and the importance of community links between families, which make the Church a “family of families” (AL 87),” underscores the Dicastery.

This is why the family “merits a year of celebrations because it is placed at the center of the engagement and care of the whole pastoral and ecclesial reality.”

There are five objectives:

“1. To spread the content of the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia,” to have people experience that the Gospel of the family is a joy that fills the heart and our whole life” (AL 200). A family that discovers and experiences the joy of having a gift and of being a gift to the Church and the society, “can become a light in the darkness of the world” (AL 66). And today the world is in need of that light!

“2. To proclaim that the Sacrament of Marriage is a gift and that it has in itself a transforming power of human love. To this end, it is necessary that Pastors and families walk together in pastoral co-responsibility and complementarity between the different vocations in the Church (cf. AL 203).

“3. To make families protagonists in the Family Pastoral. To this end, “an effort of evangelization and of catechesis directed to the heart of the family” (AL 200) is necessary because a disciple family also becomes a missionary family.

“4. To sensitize young people to the importance of being formed in the truth of love and in the gift of oneself with initiatives dedicated to them.

“5. To broaden the gaze and action of the family pastoral so that it becomes transversal to the family, to include the spouses, the children, the young people, the elderly and situations of family fragility.”

Initiatives and Resources

 “1. Forum “Where are we with Amoris Laetitia? Strategies for the implementation of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation,” from June 9 to 12, 2021, with leaders of the family pastoral of Episcopal Conferences, and international family Movements and Associations.

“2. Project “10 Amoris Laetitia Videos”: The Holy Father will recount the chapters of the Apostolic Exhortation, with families that will give witness of certain aspects of their daily life. Every month a video will be diffused to awaken the pastoral interest of the family in the dioceses and parishes of the whole world.

“3. #IamChurch: diffusion of some video testimonies on ecclesial leadership and the faith of handicapped people.

“4. To walk as a family”: 12 concrete pastoral proposals to walk as a family inspired by Amoris Laetitia.

 “5. In view of the 10th World Meeting of Families in Rome in 2022, the dioceses and families of the whole world are invited to spread and reflect further on the catecheses that will be made available by the diocese of Rome and to engage in ad hoc pastoral initiatives.

“6. Celebration of a day for grandparents and elderly people.”

 “Tools of family spirituality, of formation and pastoral action in preparation for marriage, education to affection of young people, on the sanctity of spouses and families that live the grace of the Sacrament in their daily life, will be diffused,” adds the same source.

In addition, the Dicastery announces that international “University symposiums will be organized to explore the content and the implications of the Apostolic Exhortation in relation to the topical questions that affect families of the whole world”

The 2022 World Meeting in Rome

 “Family love: vocation and way of holiness” is the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the next World Meeting of Families, which will be held in Rome in June 2022.

“On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia and three years after the promulgation of Gaudete et Exsultate,” explains the Dicastery, “this meeting intends to put forward family love as vocation and way of holiness, to understand and share the profound and salvific meaning of family relations in daily life.”

The meeting will be organized by the diocese of Rome and the Roman Dicastery and, initially planned for the fifth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia as well as three years after Gaudete et Exsultate, that is, in 2021. It was moved to 2022 because of the pandemic.

“On giving form to the concrete experience of love,” explains the Dicastery, “ marriage and the family manifest the lofty value of human relations, in the sharing of joys and trials, in the unfolding of daily life, in guiding people to the encounter with God. This path, lived with fidelity and perseverance, reinforces love and realizes the vocation to sanctity proper to each person that is concretized in conjugal and family relations. In this sense, Christian family life is a vocation and a path of sanctity, an expression of the “most beautiful face of the Church” (Gaudete et Exsultate 9).”