translated from Spanish: Pope convenes a Special Year dedicated to the Family since March 2021

The Pope has convened a Special Year dedicated to the Family, which will begin on March 19, 2021, at the age of five years after the publication of the encyclical ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and which will conclude with the X World Meeting of Families in Rome, scheduled for June 2022.The announcement was made by the pontiff himself during this Sunday’s Angelus , which he has prayed in the Apostolic Library without the presence of the faithful to respect the health provisions in Italy, where vaccination against the first vaccinated Covid-19.La in the country has begun this morning was nurse Claudia Alivernini, 29, who in turn has vaccinated the head of nursing, Alessia De Angelis, of the Spallanzani hospital in Rome.The pontiff has invited to follow the model of the Nazareth family while giving some tips for a healthy family environment: “If you argue, make peace the same day, the cold war the next day is very dangerous.” Francis also explained that in order for the family to experience sincere communion, a number of characteristics must be given: to become “a house of prayer”, to maintain “deep and pure affections”, to prevail “forgiveness over discord” and in which “the daily hardness of living is softened by mutual tenderness and by serene adherence to God’s will.” In this way, the family opens these to the joy that God gives to all those who know how to give with joy,” Francis said, but also “finds the spiritual energy to open himself to the outside, to others, at the service of his brethren, to collaboration for the construction of an ever new and better world; able, therefore, to be a carrier of positive stimuli; evangelizer with the example of life.” And speaking of family, the Pope has once again offered some of the advice he always gives for a healthy family environment. “It is true that in each of the families there are problems, sometimes it is discussed, but I tell them one thing: if they argue as a family do not end the day without making peace.” In addition, he has re-enunciating the three words that always have to prevail in a family: permission, thanks and apology. “Permission not to be invasive in the lives of others”, then thank you, for “gratitude is the blood of the noble soul” and then “the hardest to pronounce: apology”. Because as the Pope has said, “We always do ugly things and someone can be offended.”

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