The Gospel recognises that our relationships are never easy, including the relationships between fathers and their children which we mark here in Australia on Father’s Day. They are always fraught with the possibility of hurt, with disappointments, with projections, with disillusionment.  Their demand is constant.  Yet, it is what happens in and through them that determines our real sanctity.  We do not grow in holiness by practicing more religion.  We grow in holiness by practicing more listening, more humility, more love – by genuinely encouraging one another rather than putting wedges between ourselves.

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