FAMILY ORIENTATION.
The dignity of the family is one
of those eternal issues, that will be discussed alwais, our catholic religión
in many cases, even if not in a direct manner, makes references to it, in both
the old and the new testaments. Not only in the written Word but in the
TRADITION. Another topic very
interesting in the dignity area is the relief we enjoy of the women that
keeping their family household is
getting a higher education, is working outside home and competing with
men in the finding of Jobs, and in the demonstration of their capacities, in
all the fields, technical, scientific, administrative, political and the rest.
The first thing we must consider
seriously is the responsability of giving our decendents an INTEGRAL education,
it is the introduction into catholic
faith at home, supposedly our own childs are baptized as son as posible after
they are born, when very young they must receive the Sacraments for wich they
are previously prepared by cathequists of children, courses for First Comunion,
Confirmation and Confession, they will understand much better if they have boon
introduced by their parents in knowledments like: there is only one God, that
love us, that has given to us a guardian angel, that the holy Virgin is our mother
in heaven, the most important prayers
like Our Father, Ave María, and the nigth orations before going to bed. The great
importance of going to mas son sundays
Family Orientation was included in universities all arround the
world, starting in the “Universidad de Navarra”, Spain, that sent all the
information needed to the interested. When it began to be known, the interest from universities was great, they
wanted the posibilities of the teaching of it in courses for professors and
family parents. Navarra university introduced many other institutions in this
discipline. The Harvard “Method of the Case” was used, let me tell you that
relations between Harvard and Navarra, have been alwais very close.
Family Orientation (F.O.) courses
were not easy to start with. Parents taugth that they did not have any thing to
learn from an education instance, that their experience at home was the very place
for learning how to educate their descendants, but once they started, and I tell
you these out of my own experience as organicer and teacher in my Alma Mater, I
withnesed and received personaly from parents, opinions like these:
How
usefull would have been, to know this things when my children were younger.
From
today on, we will educate our sons much better.
¿Why
did not tell us before about orientation of the family?
¿How
is it posible that as parents, we were ignorant of so important issues?
And so on. Realy the profound
investigation done in the universities and specialized different schools of F.O.
have found very rich knowledgments, very useful in the formation of better
human beings. It has taken professors of F.O. years of high studies, and the
universities that teach it, and PH.D. degrees
are granted to the ones that opt to it, and pass. This discipline includes
couseling for matrimonies, unfit members, education of descendats at all ages, our own education, treatment of some cases of adictions,
and many other difficult situations of families.
We all agree that the lack of
values and virtues in our society is as bad as it can be, and that it is urgent to restore them, F.O. is the
best way to teach them in the minors, so that they, learn values and virtues that will
acompany them for the rest oftheir
existance. It is not an exageration to say that in most cases these matters, if
taugth properly and at the indicated age, will be part of their personality, and for such reason, they will carry them the
rest of their lives. In the personal freedon in wich God creates us, they will
make use of them, or not. But any way we will have done our best, and
acomplished our obligation. God wants us to be as good educators, as said
before starting with the introduction of our catholic faith, and going trough
the virtues and values acording age. Lets
ask for the help we need from Heaven to be good educators and assist to courses
of F.O.
Jorge Casas y Sánchez.
