“The joy of love experienced by families is also the joy of the Church,” says Pope Francis as he begins the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia. The family is the basic cell of society and the fundamental ecclesial community, the Church that is the home.  As the Church is a ‘family of families’ the joy experienced among the members of a family reaches out also to the wider community of church as a whole.