As he recalled that the V World Family Meeting is due next Saturday and Sunday in Valencia, Spain, and the motto of his apostolic visit to that city, “Family: live and transmit faith!”, yesterday the Pope, before saying the Angelus prayer, commented that "in many communities that are now laicised the first urgency for the believers in Christ is precisely to renew the adults’ faith, so that they can transmit it to the new generations". After all, "the path of the Christian initiation of children and adolescents can become a helpful opportunity for the parents to become reconciled with the Church and go deeper into the beauty and truth of the Gospel". The family, according to Benedict XVI, "is a living organism, in which a mutual exchange of gifts is accomplished. The important think is that God’s Word never go missing as it keeps the blaze of faith alive". The Pope also mentioned the "extremely significant gesture", during Baptism, whereby "the father or godfather lights a candle off the big Paschal candle, the symbol of Christ Resurrected": That gesture, which fully expresses the transmission of the faith within the family in order to be authentic explained the Holy Father must be preceded and accompanied by the parents’ commitment to expand the knowledge of their own faith, rekindling its flame with prayer and the devoted practice of the Sacraments of confession and the Eucharist".
