"I now wish to turn my gaze to the living Christ, who is as the heart of so many love stories, and to invoke the fire of the Spirit upon all the world's families."
Pope Francis, Amoris Laetitia #59
We are all living a love story.
My adolescent-romance-novel-loving self from another time in history is jumping for joy at hearing this.
We are all living a love story.
Granted, there are many times that it doesn't feel like it. But it's true. The season of life marks the chapter: Estrangement, In the Throes of Passion, The Bad Breakup, A Budding Romance. The funny thing about it too is that the chronology of it usually doesn't make sense.
Pope Francis invokes the fire of the Spirit upon all the world's families, that Christ might be at the center of our love story.
Entrenched in the depths of Advent, I immediately think of the Holy Family. It was a rocky start. Out of wedlock pregnancy. Young woman Mary. Old Man Joseph. Visions of Angels. Where they real? Doubt. Lack of trust. But what saved it all was that Christ was at the center of the love story.
Not only are we called to be Holy Families ourselves. We are Holy Families. We just have to work a bit harder at keeping Christ at the center of our love story.
Insert an image of your family here. Let's pray with Papa Francesco that the fire of the Spirit be with us. That at the center of our love story is Christ.
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