Familying: what is it?

There's a lot of emphasis these days on the processes that build faith and there's a distinct bottom line: the location for that faith building is rarely at the church. In fact, all of the current material points to the home as the locus for lasting faith formation.

That leads us to the term, familying.

The folks at vibrantfaith.org (set up by Catholic theologian and practitioner John Roberto) call familying “the relational processes that the Spirit uses to form faith.” They've been stockpiling ideas and resources for how parish clergy can encourage this process and have just posted the link.

So here's the place to go to find everything you need to know about how to encourage families or to do this work in your own family!

Have a look and post in the comments if you find stuff you'd like to bring to others attention.