My son had just finished a word game on his phone, the aim of which was to solve a puzzle to decipher a phrase. “What do you think of this, Dad?” he asked as he slid the phone across the table to me. The solution to the puzzle had revealed a quote by French-Algerian philosopher Albert Camus: “For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering?” I told my son I didn’t think the author really understood the concepts of eternal happiness or suffering.
“Family Love: a vocation and a path to holiness” was the theme of the 10th World Meeting of Families that took place in Rome June 22-26. I would like to reflect on one aspect of this theme: Each family has a vocation but is also the place where its individual members both live out their vocation and discern their vocation for the future.