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Couples for Christ Papa Francesco
@Pontifex_it
La testimonianza del beato Carlo
Acutis indica ai giovani di oggi
che la vera felicità si trova
mettendo Dio al primo posto e
servendoLo nei fratelli,
specialmente gli ultimi.

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Laity Family Life
Couples for Christ Retweeted
ACRONYM Papa Francisco
CFC @Pontifex_es
ESTABLISHED El testimonio del beato Carlo
1981 Acutis muestra a los jóvenes de
hoy que la verdadera felicidad se
HISTORY
encuentra poniendo a Dios en el
The Couples for Christ Association was established in Manila, primer lugar y sirviéndolo en los
Philippines, by 16 married couples belonging to a Catholic hermanos, especialmente en los
Charismatic Renewal prayer group. It works for Christian últimos.

couples wishing to deepen their faith by helping one another

to revive their relationship with our Lord and to allow 14h
themselves to be renewed by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Within a few years, the association was recognised by the Laity Family Life
Philippines Bishops’ Conference, and its new approach to Retweeted

evangelisation spread in the parishes as a programme for the Pope Francis

@Pontifex
renewal of family life. On 11 March 2000 the Ponti!cal
Council for the Laity decreed recognition of Couples for The witness of Blessed Carlo
Acutis indicates to today's young
Christ as an international association of the faithful. people that true happiness is
IDENTITY found by putting God in first
CFC is made up of families who have taken up Christ’s place and serving Him in our

exhortation to be leaven and light in the world, and to spread brothers and sisters, especially
the least.
the Good News of the liberation of humanity. Through their
commitment to the Church’s evangelising work, promoting
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peace and justice, defending the poor and the oppressed,

and promoting the unity of Christians, they cooperate with Laity Family Life
@LaityFamilyLife
the work of the Holy Spirit who gives life to a new humanity.
Membership of CFC entails acceptance of the Christian Life #PopeFrancis #Angelus
Lay people are the protagonists
Programme, of a programme of instruction designed to of the Church. Today there is a
impart to all the members of the association the essentials of need to broaden the spaces of a
the faith, helping them to rediscover the sense of their more vivid feminine presence in
vocation to marriage and to renew their faithfulness to God the Church@thepopevideo

every day, to their vows which bind them as husband and

wife, and to their commitment to support one another. CFC
pursues its objectives through family pastoral programmes
aimed at making the family a "domestic Church", and through
pastoral programmes attentive to the needs of the poor.
ORGANISATION
CFC is governed by the International Council, with its
headquarters at Manila, under which there are the National
Councils. Under the National Councils can be Regional
Councils, and under these the sectors, and under these the
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chapters, which are the grass roots units of CFC. Non-Catholic
Christians may also become aggregate members of the Laity Family Life
association. @LaityFamilyLife
MEMBERSHIP #PapaFrancisco #Angelus "Los
CFC has some 700,000 members across all ministries (Singles laicos son protagonistas de la
for Christ, Youth for Christ, Kids for Christ, Handmaids of the Iglesia. Hoy es necesario ampliar
los espacios de una presencia
Lord and Servants of the Lord), and is present in 127
femenina más incisiva en la
countries as follows: Africa and Middle East (30), Asia (37), Iglesia"@thepopevideo
Europe (20), North America (2), Oceania (17)South America
and Caribbean (21).
PUBLICATIONS
In His Steps, a quarterly publication of Biblical re"ection;
Ugnayan, a monthly supplement in the CBCP Monitor, the
o#cial publication of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the
Philippines; Family Time, a magazine which features articles
on family, parenting.
WEB SITE
https://www.couplesforchristglobal.org
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