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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
I sit here this morning and wonder if we have a sense of wonder at God’s ongoing work through people around us, through each other. Do we know what each other is involved in? Do we care?
Eugene is not suggesting we use community sharing as a measuring stick of failures and successes. But rather when we share with others, we share our experience(s) of God so that we can all grow together, so that we can celebrate both our successes and failures in different degrees of community and family.
I am reminded of the images that we saw on TV of the people of Italy during their first lockdown with the pandemic: how they communicated and celebrated each other by opening their windows and balconies and sharing music and song. Invitations to hope and then come together in new ways to celebrate life.
During lockdowns here we would see messages of hope written out and taped to windows so that when we went out for walks they were visible to any and all on the street. They were invitations to thank God for whoever lived there and ask God to keep them safe.
We found new ways to share our daily lives. And isn’t this what we were used to doing when before COVID we would return home from missions and retreats, meeting together after Mass. We found new ways of being together as community. And we began to meet and share using our computers and platforms such as Zoom so that we could share with each other in our intersecting communities.
I am reminded of Jesus and how he walked among us in the world, then he died and was resurrected. We learned as humans to see and recognize him in a different way, and then he ascended into heaven, sending the Holy Spirit to us so that we could begin a new way of recognizing him and having him with us.
An ongoing “invitation to us to maintain our sense of wonder at God ‘s ongoing work through people around us.”