The Family Fully Alive: With Purposefulness

This month, I would like to invite you to make your families more alive with purposefulness. By definition, purposefulness means an unwavering firmness of character, action, or will. A purposeful person shows that he/she has a definite aim and a strong desire to achieve it. In today’s society, many people have lost their purpose. Particularly during this pandemic, many, I have come across, are stressed, lonely, anxious, and too often sad.

The world is going too fast. People have lost physically, emotionally, mentally, and financially and their relationships with others have been threatened.

When I was in seminary back in India, I had an interesting, but intense course that helped me prepare to help people regain their purposefulness. The course was part of a Personality and Human Relations (PRH) program called “Who am I?” The focus of the course was to help us seminarians discover who we were at the core of our being and build our relationships with God and others in preparation for our vocations.

Today, families can lead a purposeful life by getting in touch with the core of their being, where they can be in communion with God the Source of life, who made them, who loves them, and who sustains them.

Then they will experience meaning, fulfillment and happiness in their job, marriage, family, and anything else on their mind.

During the month of October(being the month dedicated to Blessed Mother Mary), make an effort to pray the Rosary every evening.

Once a week, gather the family to talk about a set of mysteries beginning with Joyful Mysteries, followed by Sorrowful Mysteries, Glorious Mysteries, and Luminous Mysteries.