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Washington D.C., Oct 31, 2014 \/ 02:04 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The Church must work to strengthen the family by helping couples practice Christian concepts of virtues if it wishes to \u201copen wide the doors to Christ\u201d in the vision of St. John Paul II, the head of the Knights of Columbus said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe have often heard that the family is at the center of the New Evangelization. This means that there must be greater pastoral care and formation of families at the parish level. We must pray that this will be one of the fruits of the recent Synod on the Family and of the upcoming World Meeting of Families to be held in Philadelphia,\u201d Supreme Knight Carl Anderson said Oct. 29 at the Catholic Information Center\u2019s New Evangelization Award Dinner in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\tAnderson and his wife Dorian were recipients of the Saint John Paul II Award for the New Evangelization, given to \u201cthose who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to proclaiming Christ to all peoples.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tThe Andersons were appointed by Benedict XVI to the Pontifical Council for the Family in 2007, and they are both members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

\tThe family is at the heart of the New Evangelization, but many Catholic marriages are ending in divorce, Anderson noted.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThere are many, many families today that will end in divorce because they will not survive the pressures of contemporary society unless they receive help,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n

\tAnderson explained to CNA after the dinner that the Church should emphasize the sacrificial, Christ-like nature of marriage since the institution has been secularized.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe\u2019re in such a secularized society and culture that we really need greater formation of what it means to be a disciple of Christ in marriage. And how, if in marriage, we\u2019re called to sort of testify to God\u2019s love \u2013 how do we do that every day with our spouse?\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe continued, \u201cI think again it goes back to the pervasiveness of secularism, where many concepts have become secularized. So our concept of freedom, our concept of faithfulness, our concept of love \u2026 we have to say wait a minute, take a step back. What is the Gospel understanding of fidelity of love? Of mutuality? Of self-gift?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIf marriage is to be a reflection of Christ\u2019s love for the Church, sacrificial love, then what does that mean in terms of forgiveness, reconciliation? Those are big issues. And I\u2019m not sure that it\u2019s thought through enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\tFormation in the virtues should begin earlier in a child\u2019s life, he continued, as a remote preparation for their vocation, be that marriage or priesthood or religious or consecrated life.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI think we need to admit \u2013 or realize maybe is the better word \u2013 that our formation needs to begin much earlier. That given what\u2019s happened with the internet culture, by the time our children get to be 12, 14 years of age, they\u2019re much more experienced, sadly, in a lot of these problems, than maybe 30, 40, 50 years ago,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI think there\u2019s so many young saints, they had vocations at a very young age. And so we shouldn\u2019t begin waiting until 20, 22, 24, to begin speaking of your vocation. Maybe we should speak to 10 year-olds about their vocation,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

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