The beauty of the family with many children, the next Synod, the need for laws that support the domestic core are just some of the important issues raised in the exclusive interview with Giuseppe and Raffaella Butturini, of the National Numerous Family Association, who will be received by Pope Francis on December 28th.
"We must live life as protagonists, trying to do what gives joy, and then everything else works. We have never been afraid, neither of economic difficulties nor of health problems: the family becomes a force that never fails. In the words that an old man spoke, in a movie, to a girl who was running away from home: ‘Take a stick and break it: it breaks easily. Put ten together: you cannot break them. That is the strength of the family!‘ And when you learn to love a child, then it‘s easier to love the second one, and then the third and so on. Then you are not the only one who loves, because the love of the parents is multiplied by the love of the brothers and sisters, and it becomes a chain."
This was the testimony given about the beauty of giving life to a large family by Giuseppe and Raffaella Butturini, Presidents of the National Numerous Family Association, in an interview with the PCF on the occasion of their upcoming meeting, on December 28th, with Pope Francis. Many important issues were touched on in the conversation with the couple: from the incentive for state legislation that protects the family and promotes development to the benefits that large families represent for society; from the testimony about the hard work and the great rewards that the Lord bestows on those who give some many children to e single household to the specific contribution of the Association in identifying the most critical elements related to the family that should be made known to the Bishops in view of the next Ordinary Synod on the family. A special moment in the interview was then reserved for the meeting in the Vatican on December 28th, from which the couple expects a great deal: "What do we hope for from the Holy Father? First of all, we would like to thank him for what he is doing for society‘s basic unit: these months of his pontificate are a blessing for our families. Then, we would like to express to him with our own lives the joy of being families with a father and a mother, united families, families that are open to life. And then, we would like to ask him to keep doing what he is already doing: to support us, helping us with his word, to pray every day for large families, to find to way to give us a thousand caresses, so that our families may be conscious of their mission and live joyfully."