Okay, perhaps not literally. But you are welcome to this site nonetheless. This site, on which I hope to build a conversation about designing homes that truly foster the "domestic church," and to which I invite your participation.
So what is this thrice-repeated term, domestic church? you ask. It is the way that the Catechism of the Catholic Church, following the lead of Lumen Gentium, has chosen to describe how the Catholic family IS in the world. It is a vision of the family as a "church in miniature." In other words, what the Church (big C) does on a large scale, the family is called to do on a smaller scale. What's even more crazy than this is that countless families have taken this seriously enough to do something about it.
I hope to highlight some of those families on this blog. And I hope to flesh out a bit more what it means to live as a domestic church. At which point it will be time to talk about how homes can best be designed and built to nurture and protect the family in its extraordinary role to assist the Church in leading souls to Heaven.
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