We have posted the entire document here on Crux by chapter. If you prefer, you can read it by downloading the .pdf from the Vatican website.
Amoris Laetitia – Introduction
- The Joy of Love
Amoris Laetitia, chapter 1 – In the light of the Word
- You and your wife
- Your children are as the shoots of an olive tree
- A path of suffering and blood
- The work of your hands
- The tenderness of an embrace
Amoris Laetitia, chapter 2 – The experiences and challenges of families
- The current reality of the family
- Some challenges
Amoris Laetitia, chapter 3 – Looking to Jesus: The vocation of the family
- Jesus restores and fulfils God’s plan
- The family in the documents of the Church
- The sacrament of Matrimony
- Seeds of the Word and imperfect situations
- The transmission of life and the rearing of children
- The family and the Church
Amoris Laetitia, chapter 4 – Love in marriage
- Our daily love
- Growing in conjugal love
- Passionate love
- The transformation of love
Amoris Laetitia, chapter 5 – Love made fruitful
- Welcoming a new life
- An expanding fruitfulness
- Life in the wider family
Amoris Laetitia, chapter 6 – Some pastoral perspectives
- Proclaiming the Gospel of the family today
- Preparing engaged couples for marriage
- Accompanying the first years of married life
- Casting light on crises, worries and difficulties
- When death makes us feel its sting
Amoris Laetitia, chapter 7 – Towards a better education of children
- Where are our children?
- The ethical formation of children
- The value of correction as an incentive
- Patient realism
- Family life as an educational setting
- The need for sex education
- Passing on the faith
Amoris Laetitia, chapter 8 – Accompanying, discerning and integrating weakness
- Gradualness in pastoral care
- The discernment of “irregular” situations
- Mitigating factors in pastoral discernment
- Rules and discernment
- The logic of pastoral mercy
Amoris Laetitia, chapter 9 – The spirituality of marriage and the family
- A spirituality of supernatural communion
- Gathered in prayer in the light of Easter
- A spirituality of exclusive and free love
- A spirituality of care, consolation and incentive
- Prayer to the Holy Family
If you prefer, you can also download the .pdf from the Vatican’s website.