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[The following homily was given during the closing Mass of the Second Panamerican Conference on Family and Education in Toronto, May 30, 1996. It is based on 1 Peter 2:9; Mark 10:46.]

            The family is both fruit and school of love. It begins in the self-donation of the spouses who chose each other as husband and wife. It comes into proper being as their marital union gives birth to their children. It is the natural setting in which the most important lesson of life - to love and grow in love - is learned.

School of love

            The Church is the instrument of salvation. Christ lives and works in and through his Church in order to save and sanctify us, communicating his life and love and mercy, making us sisters and brothers of his, daughters and sons of God. Through the Church we enter into the "Family Life" of the Blessed Trinity.

Traditional African approaches in the light of natural values, and of modern secular attitude