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OCTOBER 2022 VOLUME 16 ISSUE 4

RADICAL COMPANIONS

by Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares

egardless of whether we describe occasional trifle, but a serious, determined
ourselves as Spiritual Directors, commitment and undertaking. Given the
RCompanions, Guides, or some other intention we place on it, this invites further
designation, all authentic practitioners of our reflection on what characterizes the relationship
calling share common elements, some of which we have with our directees, companionees, or
we previously discussed here: https://www. those we guide, or walk alongside.
sdicompanions.org/docs/media/listen/14-2/14-2-
listen-2020-04.pdf In some sense, our relationships are ones of
“radical companioning,” that is even beyond
In this context we often say things like: the type of intimacy that one finds between
“spiritual direction is not going to a bar with lovers, or a mother and her child, or other sorts
some friends, and discussing God over a few of more recognizable “intimacy,” no matter
drinks.” By which we mean that it is not an how profound these can be.
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“Our relationship is

truly ‘radical’ because our

communion will stop

at nothing until we

remember that we are Illustration by Matt Whitney

spiritually authentic only

beyond ourselves.”

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