FAMILY ORIENTATION.

 

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.