Regardless of one’s religion, see how Pope Francis has beautifully written about the family:

Family, a place of forgiveness. There is no perfect family, we do not have perfect parents, you are not perfect yourself. We do not marry a perfect person and we do not have perfect children. We have complaints from each other. We cannot live together without offending one another. We are constantly disappointed. Yes, for so many reasons at different times, we are disappointed by one another. There is no healthy marriage or healthy family without the exercise of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the medicine for family joy and happiness. Forgiveness is vital to our emotional health and spiritual survival. No matter the offense or who is the offender. Without forgiveness the family becomes an arena of conflict and a fortress of evil. Without forgiveness the family becomes sick and unhealthy. Forgiveness is the antiseptic of the soul, the purification of the spirit and the liberation of the heart. No sin is too big to be forgiven. He who does not forgive does not have peace in his soul and cannot have communion with God. Unforgiveness is evil and a poison that intoxicates and kills the one who refuses to forgive. Keeping the heartache of unforgiving in your heart is a self-destructive gesture. Those who do not forgive are physically, emotionally and spiritually ill. For this reason, the family must be a place of life and not a place of death; a place of forgiveness, a place of paradise and not a place of hell; a healing territory and not a disease; an internship of forgiveness and not guilt. Forgiveness brings joy where sorrow has brought sadness; healing where sorrow has caused disease. A family is a place of support and not of gossip and slander of one another. It must be a place of welcome, not a place of rejection. Shame to those who plant evil about others. We are family and not enemies. When anyone is going through a challenge, all they need is support (By Pope Francis).

Love and prayers

Fr. Charley