About
family prayers: The
image that emerges for me, of family prayers, is "Gone
With The Wind", in the first part, before the war, where
Scarlett is trying to figure out how to get Ashley to
fall in love with her. Her mother comes home and commences
family prayers, complete with the Rosary and the Litany
of the Virgin. This was the first instance of a family
praying openly together that I had ever heard of. It
made a deep impression on me.
My
atheistic-humanist family is filled with love, but the
image of a family kneeling in the dining room, to pray
together moved me to a place I never imagined. Later,
much later, my spiritual director, an Irish Catholic
Sister of Mercy, said that her family prayed every evening
in the same way, and I felt the circle had come round
again.
Michelle
C Jackson
Trinity Cathedral, Sacramento
Elk Grove, California, USA
astraeus@accessbee.com
9 March 2013