English
EspañolLoving each other is a never-ending story—the most profound story of living. Every family writes its own history. The life of their home is their love tale as spouses and parents. That love story occupies the center of their home. One of its most embracing and tender pages is the festive table inside the serene home.
Text
“Let us cross the threshold of this tranquil home, with its family sitting around the festive table. At the center, we see the father and mother, a couple with their personal story of love.” (The Joy of Love, n.9)
Commentary
A quiet house and a festive table are not props in a photoshoot, after which they disappear from the scene. Nor do they magically appear out of thin air. Both are part of a story, part of a whole, complex life that is constantly under construction. This story tells the love of the protagonists – father and mother – in which “the festive house” and “serene table” are endearing and ever-present scenes. The master walls of a “home.” Therefore, the spouses and parents are the central “fire,” the core that radiates love´s warmth.
This serene home was built day by day thanks to their self-giving, from one to the other and to their children. Such dedication to one another, materialized in the small everyday details, in the moments of effort and sacrifice, sometimes as discrete as abnegated, when considered as a whole, has made it possible for their house to be serene and their table festive. What energy made this a reality? The one that comes from loving each other and from the unique joy, so warm, tender, all-embracing, so true and good, when it´s faithful and persistent.
