The Family as a Domestic Church

      The family is a Domestic Church according to Pope Paul VI. The family has gained the important and well deserved name of the Domestic Church. This name means that every Christian family should have all the aspects of the Church, Such as the Father which in the Church is God. This also means that the house of a family should be like Church in the way that it transmits the gospel and spreads the Church throughout.
      In a family that strives for the completion of this task all the members of the family are called to evangelize and are evangelized. The parents are supposed to communicate the gospel with their children. The children also can extend the same Gospel to the parents and they can receive it as it is deeply lived by them.
     Then that family can go onto evangelize and become the evangelizer of many different families and the neighborhood that the families build up. Also, families that come from a mixed marriage have the duty of proclaiming Christ to the children. These children are to receive the consequences of a common Baptism which is that they have the task of becoming builders of unity.