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Vocation & Family Diversity

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Vocation & Family Diversity

Explore how family life can take many forms and how vocation is lived through loving service. You may use the fictional scenario throughout; you do not need to share personal details about your own family.

A community celebration

Read the scenario, then answer the questions. Aisha is helping plan a community celebration at her parish. The planning team includes families with many experiences: Hemi lives with his mum and grandparents; Maia shares time between two homes in a blended family; Luca lives with foster caregivers; and Sione’s wider whānau often gathers to support one another. Some people in the community are Catholic and others are not. The team agrees that everyone should be welcomed and that no one should be expected to explain private family matters. They share tasks according to their time and skills: preparing food, greeting visitors, setting up tables and looking after younger children. Aisha says that vocation can mean a calling to love and serve others in everyday life. The group also discusses the Catholic idea of the family as a “domestic church”: a place where faith may be practised and shared through care, prayer and service. They recognise that families do not all look alike, and that respect and belonging matter.

Notice and interpret

1.Which statement best describes the range of family experiences in the scenario?
  • Only two-parent households are included.
  • The team includes different family arrangements and caring relationships.
  • Everyone in the team belongs to the same religion.
  • Family arrangements are not mentioned.
2.In the scenario, what does “domestic church” mean in Catholic teaching?
  • A church building located inside a home
  • A family setting where faith can be lived and shared through care, prayer and service
  • A group that must have a particular family structure
  • A parish event held in a kitchen
3.Match each action from the celebration to the way it contributes to the group.
  • Greeting visitors
  • Preparing food
  • Sharing tasks according to available time and skills
  • Making participation possible for different people
  • Helping people feel welcome
  • Contributing practical care
4.Explain one way the planning team puts respect into practice. Use a detail from the scenario.
5.True or false: In the scenario, vocation can include everyday acts of love and service, not only a religious job.
TrueFalse

Think about vocation and belonging

6.The team shares tasks according to people’s time and skills. Give one reason this is a fair way to organise the celebration.
7.Complete the idea: A family or whānau can contribute to the wellbeing of a community by…
8.A new young person arrives at the celebration with their caregiver. Write one welcoming thing a team member could say or do, without asking intrusive questions.
9.Explain how the idea of the family as part of the Body of Christ could encourage Catholics to treat people from different family backgrounds with dignity.
10.Imagine the planning team disagrees because one person assumes that every family has the same needs. Suggest one respectful question the team could ask to plan inclusively.
11.In two or three sentences, explain how vocation, family diversity and community wellbeing connect in the scenario.
One idea from this worksheet that I can carry into how I treat others is:

3 printable pages

  • Vocation & Family Diversity, page 1 of 3: A community celebration, Notice and interpret

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  • Vocation & Family Diversity, page 2 of 3: Think about vocation and belonging

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  • Vocation & Family Diversity, page 3 of 3: 9. Explain how the idea of the family as part of the Body of Christ could encourage…

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