Something to think about

From Sacred Space...

Something to think and pray about this week

Family meals are at risk. The table can be a place where the preparation of food reflects mother's or father's care, and where parents and children can sit, enjoy, argue, joke, listen, have their voice heard, tease, attack and be attacked, but not walk out. Today couples prize a chance to enjoy a meal with their children. As work or other pressures increase, fast food and TV take over, we find families who never eat together. In some parts of the world the children grab something from the fridge and ‘graze', a can in one hand, junk food in the other, their eyes fixed on a TV screen. One reckoning is that, in the USA, 40% of meals are eaten in cars. It is no accident that Jesus placed a meal - the Eucharist - at the centre of the Christian family. It is around a common table that a family really lives together. Don't let that disappear. Find a time, at least once a week, for slow food, not fast.

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