A proper spirituality of family… is about intense, intimate community, bodies intermingled and conjoined, the noise and busyness of providing, caretaking, and stewarding, the complexities of intergenerational struggle, the love of particular persons. It is about dwelling in one place for a long time with a community of not always like-minded people, abut immersion in the conflicting, sometimes soul-devouring dynamics of the social, political, and economic world.
The spiritual lessons of family are thus derived from the experiences of being very much ‘ in the world,’ not apart from it. Those lessons are legion. They include, among others, the spiritual arts of welcoming and letting go and of intimacy and otherness, the enactment of rituals of mutual need and nourishment, the contemplation of the ‘isness’ of things,’ and, especially, the continual practice of radical forgiveness.
--Wendy Wright,
The Ignatian-Salesian Imagination
and Familied Life
The Ignatian-Salesian Imagination
and Familied Life
Image source: Giotto, Flight into Egypt, detail (ca, 1304-1306), https://todayscatholic.org/the-shining-example-of-the-holy-family/
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