Fathering: Building the New Civilization of Love (A Little Mandate Book) - Softcover

De Vinck, Christopher; Doherty, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0921440618 ISBN 13: 9780921440611

Publisher: Madonna House Pubns, 2000

Synopsis

Fathers: Enter more deeply into your truest and most central vocation!

Fathers are invited to enter deeply into their fatherhood in order to discover their true and most central vocation. This book offers concrete help and encouragement in living the gospel call to become transformed through loving their family.

Fathering discloses the majesty of fatherhood as a spiritual vocation. Christopher de Vinck finds scriptural and traditional support for the father's role as protector and guardian of his family and reveals the glory of fatherhood as a path of sacrifice a true imitation of Christ.

In this book, you will find:
Being a guardian of life.
Allowing God to lead through you.
Loving your family as Christ loved the Church.
Learning to love through a very special form of personal friendship with your wife.

Love for his wife as mother of their children and love for the children themselves are for the man the natural way of understanding and fulfilling his own fatherhood... the place and task of the father in and for the family is of unique and irreplaceable importance. Pope John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio

What God does for the universe man does for his human family. God provides for eternity; man for a short space of time. Therefore man expresses the will of the Father by being a father. To be a father, he must be a creator and provider. Catherine Doherty, Dearly Beloved, Vol. I

Other titles in this series are Marriage Vol. 1 and Mothering Vol. 2.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Love for his wife as mother of their children and love for the children themselves are for the man the natural way of understanding and fulfiling his own fatherhood... the place and task of the father in and for the family is of unique and irreplaceable importance." -- Pope John Paul II, Familiaris Consortio

"Let husbands place themselves under the patronage of Peter. He will teach them how to love through all the storms of the sea of life. He will teach them how to weep when they, in their frailty, will fail and fall. He will impart to them the secret of God’s grace and mercy, and tell them how it heals and makes whole again, and gives evermore strength for the immense natural and supernatural task of protecting, cherishing, nourishing and lifting up the 'Little Church', the family entrusted to them." -- Catherine Doherty, Dear Parents

About the Author:

Fathering features reflections and prayers written by Christopher de Vinck, the award-winning author of "The Power of the Powerless" and "Simple Wonders". He is a regular feature writer for Reader's Digest, Guideposts, and The New York Times, and lives with his wife and three children in Pompton Plains, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Madonna House Pubns
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0921440618
• ISBN 13: 9780921440611
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: McPhee Rosalie