One Minute Meditation
| The Making of a Holy Family:The family, the precious pearl which is the richness of every human being, is being corrupted at this time full of agitation, confusion, fear, and rebellion. Each of us has a desire in his heart to become a family, because only within the family can our greatest needs be expressed: a dialogue not only with words but with our feelings, our affections, our gaze, in a reciprocal gift of self, and in concrete gestures of love.
‘The family flows from a Trinitarian reality, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It is an essential and fundamental need, natural to us, which each one of us has inside, a need to see ourselves in the gaze, smile, and reception of another person. It begins with a true friendship, rooted in purity, without hidden intentions. Slowly, it is transformed into attraction and dialogue, developing into a selfless, gratuitous love, and then it becomes a spousal love. A true vocation to matrimony is formed by the truth of a peaceful and loving dialogue with God, which is extended to and developed in the couple. Spouses have to give life to each other, sacrificing the many small and big acts of self-interest. Only then can they conceive a child or ten children in joy, in hope, and in true love. While looking into each other’s eyes, the first thing that two Christian spouses need to say is, “I need you. You are important to me!” Even if the journey is an uphill climb at the beginning, we know it can be done if we know how to stay on our knees facing the One who speaks to us, who comforts us, who reproaches us, who welcomes us, who lifts us up and who. is in the voice of our conscience. If we let Christ dwell in us, He can heal our wounds, transform our fragility, and illuminate our hearts and minds with the light of His truth. He will melt the deepest “me” to recreate our new “us,” original, unique, and un repeatable. This, then, is the Christian family. We will then find that inner balance and harmony, which will help to draw out the paternity and maternity in each one of us. If this does not happen, we risk failure. At His Word, we will continue to “cast our nets” faithful to Him, because everything is possible to those who believe. We are certain that, as the Holy Father says, “The Christian family is the center and heart of the civilization of love.” Mother Elvira Petrozzi (foundress of the Cenocolo) |
