We are surrounded by a culture of competition, walls, elimination. And our families are very impaired.

Hey guys, Peace and Goodness!

Sunday is the day of the Lord! Day that we go to Church to participate in Holy mass, we receive the Body of Christ and His Word, and we encounter ourselves with the brothers. We unite ourselves in prayer. Communion is justly this union. The Church invites us to on Sunday, to be in communion with our neighbor and with the Lord, of a more profound form. You already should have heard this phrase: “Sunday without Mass; a week without graces!”

Sunday is the day that we are in the house with the family, we meet friends, lunch together, share, live, walk. A day to rest, to tidy our house and our personal things. It is the opportune day to live in family intimacy. We spend the entire week working, running from one side to the other, immersed in an agitated life, therefore, thanks to God, this day, Sunday, is reserved, to silence ourselves, to calm ourselves a little and to enter into familiar intimacy, something that during the week, due to agitation we stopped realizing.

However, today, we have seen that Sunday has become the day we put someone on the other side of a wall! It is the culture of competition and not of companionship. The culture of elimination of not of pardon. This you should already know. Or perhaps it is not so clear, it is that unconciously, we are brought to generate in our heart thoughts, that generate feelings, that for its time, produce attitudes of elimination.

Today, I ask myself: Who am I eliminating from my life? Who am I putting on the other side  of a  wall of my life? Our children? Our parents? Friends? The Church? If someone person speaks, wrongly, or hurts us or even if he does not lead us to what we expected, “he or she  is not our type”, our attitude is eliminating them from our circle of friends, from our day by day, from our life.

How many young people do not speak any more with their parents, because they eliminate them, there are grimaces, they are outdated.” How many spouses do not share nor pardon your spouse: “He (or she) is very boring, old, cold, we are not together…”

You could speak of various ambitions in our life, therefore, I prefer to leave you with a question: “Who am I putting on the other side  of a wall of my life, consciously or unconsciouly?” The wall appears to be the place where on gives someone the last chance to redeem him or  herself, as a tribunal. An attitude of one who is not merciful and that forgot the Word of God that says: “How many times should we pardon, 7 times?” Jesus responded “I don’t say to you 7 times but 70 times 7 times”, in other words always.

That this culture of the wall, does not have any power over our families. Fight for your family, for your friends, for your loved one. The family that prays together, stays together!

God bless you,

We are together!

Emanuel Stênio

translated from Portuguese