A MANUTENÇÃO DO IDEÁRIO DE FAMÍLIA NO CENÁCULO DE NOSSA SENHORA.

Abstract

This paper s theme is constituted by the conceptions of family disclosed at the Our Lady s Cenacle of South Taguatinga s Mansions Sector (DF). This Cenacle is one of the smallest cells of the Marian Movement of Priests, established by the Italian priest Stefano Gobbi. Our main objective, in this paper, is to analyze which conceptions of family are present during the devotional practices of the mentioned Cenacle and how these conceptions get close to or far from the changes related to the new constructions and configurations of family that are currently present in our society. Throughout the text that composes the three chapters of this paper, we try to identify: the sociocultural changes nowadays related to family; the propositions linked to family, which are present during the devotional practices of the Cenacle analyzed by us; the social representations of family, expressed in it; and the answer to the question of whether this can contribute to the assimilation of and/or the resistance to the primary changes observed in our era. In order for us to accomplish these objectives, we adopted the methodologies of the bibliographical research and of the field research, the latter with a qualitative approach. During the collection of data, we administered questionnaires and used the technique of the focal group. Based on the respondents speeches, we concluded that the Our Lady s Cenacle of South Taguatinga s Mansions Sector, due to its characteristics, is an intermedium between the Popular Catholicism and the Official Catholicism, with its conceptions, rites and practices, with regard to family, following its traditional patterns, mainly through the usage of archetypes idealized by the Catholic Church for the family, which are: the Holy Family and Our Lady as an example of woman, wife and housekeeper. Even though it is placed within a context of changes in the contemporaneity, regarding family with its new characteristics and various possibilities of configuration as well as religion, which is going through important changes nowadays, especially in relation to the individualized belief and the fluidity of faith, the Cenacle under study remains immune to such changes. This leads it to, due to its reiteration of the traditional values, which are considered to be intangible by the Catholic Church, such as chastity, matrimony, indissolubility of the matrimony, conjugal faithfulness and maternity, contribute to the maintenance of the ideology of the traditional nuclear family, reassuring, thus, with the patriarchal system, responsible for the perpetration of the masculine domination and the feminine submission.