The idea was given birth a few years ago in Selva by some families: "bringing together the realities in the Italian territory where experiences of Ignatian spirituality are already being organised in a lay and domestic form," Marco Berti, secretary of the RIA explains. "Families from various areas who form groups and / or organise experiences of Ignatian spirituality for families and couples, can in this way collaborate together, exchange methods, formation material, ideas, programs and can themselves become guides and spread the experience ". This network is being organized in local /territorial meeting places (domus), where the local people can attend for the planned programs.

Thus a website has been activated http://www.retefamiglieignaziane.org/  , which is a forum for discussion and encounter, where one can search for programs for married and engaged couples or subscribe to a newsletter and remain updated with new initiatives.

“This reality is open to all and offered to all those who have at heart a form of family spirituality that is focused and directive, well aware that the most important aspect of formation is disseminating the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius so that the family becomes more and more a nucleus which is alive and prophetic rather than simply belonging to a specific pastoral ministry ". This is the specific plan that the promoters are working on for the next meeting, a seminar on the accompaniment of couples scheduled in Bologna from 12 to 13 October.

“The wider project within which this event is inserted” Fr Beppe Trotta points out “is that of “rereading” in a pluralistic form the different essential aspects of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in the conviction that there is a possibility of a “plural variation” which can adapt the proposal of the Spiritual Exercises to the specific characteristics of couples and families.” The program in this sense is a deepening of spiritual accompaniment and has some traits and characteristics and elements which are fundamental to the focus of accompaniment of the couple and an approach which is a form of an instrument which was developed by Maria Teresa Zattoni. From these two introductory relationships we can start the true work of elaboration which is done on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings on the theme of spiritual accompaniment of the couple in an Ignatian form.

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