Vatican City, May 26, 2011 / 00:50 am
Vatican officials have released a book of preparatory teaching documents for next year’s Seventh World Meeting of Families. The catechesis series has as its theme “Family: Work and Celebration.”
“It is difficult in today's situations to live Sunday as a time of celebration ... modern humanity has invented free time but seems to have forgotten the celebration,” explained Bishop Franco Giulio Brambilla, auxiliary bishop of Milan.
He said the family needs to “engrave” in its lifestyle the sense of celebration.
Preparation for the World Meeting of Families aims to advance this cause. The meeting will take place in Milan from May 30 to June 3 in 2012. The Pontifical Council for the Family and the Archdiocese of Milan prepared the teaching documents for the event.