Today is Trinity Sunday. How best to live it out? Love your family. Yes, it is this simple. And this hard. Because if God is a community of love, a trinity of persons, a three-in-one, then the very best way we have to celebrate this central truth of Christianity is to be a community of love. Which starts at home. We Catholics speak the name of the Trinity every time we start to pray: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. But how often do we stop to consider that with each quick sign of the cross, we are evoking the very essence of family? A parent, a child, and the love between them. Today as you love your family - in the everyday, concrete, hands-on ways that families love, over food and through tears and in quiet - think about what they have taught you of love. How it wakes in the night, how it keeps going in the dark, how it turns our faces toward light. Today as you love your family - parents and grandparents, children and … [Read more...] about the easiest way to celebrate Trinity Sunday
everyday parenting as spiritual practice
