The Spiritual Practice of Friendship

Friendship is a mutual relationship that is vulnerable, supportive, encouraging, accepting, sanctifying, joy-filled and reserved for only a small number of people in your whole life. Spiritual Friendship is not just having an active social life or catching up over coffee once every 6 weeks. Rather as Aelred of Rievaulx wote in his book Spiritual Friendship, “…We call friends only those to whom we have no qualm about entrusting our heart and all its contents, while these friends are bound to us in turn by the same inviolable law of loyalty and trustworthiness.” Read more here