Family in Mission
People must learn how not to live by clichés. For example, “The family that prays together stays together” is a cliché that presumes a lot.
A praying family cannot sustain itself to be a praying community unless it is living a culture and ethic of devotion to God. Staying together sometimes happens because of some occasional or emergency situation, and it happens not by prayer. Staying together is not a Catholic “thing” neither is prayer. If families stay together, it is because of the reason of staying together as humans. They become family because all are impelled to live as a family.
Vice in whatever form is more common in discordant family relations not because of lack of prayer. And the resulting breakup from that cannot be attributed to purely religious reasons. A family is not a perspective. It is our life, our being, our future. As long as we cannot learn to be more realistic about our families, vices will continue encroaching upon our families.
A vice is not anymore an individual thing, nor is it an individual malefaction. Being critical about it does not only mean condemning it. There is more in the family than we ever thought about it, or consider using it for the kingdom of God.
Note: A regular meeting was set for the coordinators every 2nd Friday of the month, after the clergy recollection activities.
