In the Church, the treasure of the family has been entrusted first and foremost to witnesses: to those fathers and mothers, sons and daughters who through the family have discovered the path of their human and Christian vocation, the dimension of the "inner man" (Eph 3:16) of which the Apostle speaks, and thus have attained holiness.
1974: Insegnamenti di Paolo VI, XII, (1974) 895). In Ecclesia porro testibus ipsis commendatur familiae thesaurus: iis nempe patribus ac matribus, filiis ac filiabus, qui suae humanae christianaeque vocationis semitam per familiam reppererunt, amplitudinem nempe “hominis interioris” (Eph. 3, 16)de quo dicit Apostolus, sicque sanctitatem sunt consecuti.vatican.va vatican.va