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The Holy Family with a Little Bird by Bartolome Esteban Murillo.

Department of Conviviality

Chair: Olympia

"We live together."--JH

"Of the things which wisdom provides for the blessedness of one's whole life, by far the greatest is the possession of friendship."
--Epicurus, The Principal Doctrines, XXVII.

To talk and to laugh with them; to do friendly acts of service for one another; to read well-written books together; sometimes to tell jokes and sometimes to be serious; to disagree at times, but without hard feelings, just as a man does with himself; and to keep our many discussions pleasant by the very rarity of such differences; to teach things to the others and to learn from them; to long impatiently for those who were absent, and to receive with joy those joining us. These and similar expressions, proceeding from the hearts of those who loved and repaid their comrades' love, by way of countenance, tongue, eyes, and a thousand pleasing gestures, were like fuel to set our minds ablaze and to make but one out of many.
--St. Augustine, Confessions, IV.8.

We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other.
We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone any more.
Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.
We have all know the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes in community.
--Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness.

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