It's a life shared together. Celtic spirituality with its emphasis on hospitality can be a wonderful expression of community. For information on monastic spirituality, read about the Monastery of Christ in the Desert , in New Mexico. Monastic spirituality is a way of life, carried out over a lifetime, requiring discipline to approach God through prayer, fasting, silence, vigils, reading and good works. The Irish practice of hospitality is an offshoot of monastic custom.
Hospitality implies listening.
In silence we learn to keep an inner peace, a means of returning to God. More information on the monastic life is available from the Genesee Abbey in Piffard, New York. The author invites us to celebrate the communities of which we are a part. Gather old friends when you're home on break, celebrate the Eucharist together, then go out for brunch. After prayer, thought and research, intervene in your child's life.