Do you know how to get a room of 60 adults and children to cheerfully interact with each other, even though they barely know each other? Get them to high-five each other! At our monthly family service we've changed the formal (rather alien to the children) handshake of The Peace (a handshake of love and fidelity shared in some church services) to a high-five of peace. It's been a revelation. Try getting a 2 year old to shake your hand, then offer them a high-five and you'll understand what I mean.
As followers of Jesus, our responsibility is to listen for those calling out to us, and to respond in love by reaching out and touching the untouchable, reminding them by word and deed of their sacred identity.
-Br. Nicholas Bartoli
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