There are many! Have small group members/students find some of their own.

• The Kiss of Brothers: The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the desert to meet Moses.” So he went, and when they met at the mountain of God, Aaron kissed him. Moses informed him of all the LORD had said in sending him, and of the various signs he had enjoined upon him. Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites. Aaron told them everything the LORD had said to Moses, and he performed the signs before the people. The people believed, and when they heard that the LORD was concerned about them and had seen their affliction, they bowed down in worship. (Ex 4:27-31)
• Kiss of the Bridegroom: “Let me kiss him with the kisses of his mouth.” (Song of Solomon 1:2)

• Kiss of the penitent: “You did not give me a kiss, but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered.” (Lk 7:45)
• Kiss of discipleship: “And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother’.” (Matt 12:49-50)
• Kiss at the Last Supper: “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (Jn 13:34-35)

• “His betrayer had arranged a sign with them saying, ‘The man I shall kiss is the one; arrest him’.” (Matt 26:48)
• “Is he not the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Are not his sisters all with us? Where did this man get all this? And they took offense at him.” (Matt 13:55-56)

There are many! Following are a few for your consideration:

• The family is the original cell of social life. It is the natural society in which husband and wife are called to give themselves in love and in the gift of life. Authority, stability, and a life of relationships within the family constitute the foundations for freedom, security, and fraternity within society. The family is the community in which, from childhood, one can learn moral values, begin to honor God, and make good use of freedom. Family life is an initiation into life in society. (CCC #2207)
• “A parish is a definite community of the Christian faithful established on a stable basis within a particular church; the pastoral care of the parish is entrusted to a pastor as its own shepherd under the authority of the diocesan bishop.” It is the place where all the faithful can be gathered together for the Sunday celebration of the Eucharist. The parish initiates the Christian people into the ordinary expression of the liturgical life: it gathers them together in this celebration; it teaches Christ’s saving doctrine; it practices the charity of the Lord in good works and brotherly love: You cannot pray at home as at church, where there is a great multitude, where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the union of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of the priests. (CCC #2179)
• Religious life derives from the mystery of the Church. It is a gift she has received from her Lord, a gift she offers as a stable way of life to the faithful called by God to profess the counsels. Thus, the Church can both show forth Christ and acknowledge herself to be the Savior’s bride. Religious life in its various forms is called to signify the very charity of God in the language of our time. (CCC #926)

• Describe the ways you have grown in stronger friendship with those who are close to Christ.
• How are those relationships different than the relationships you have with those who do not yet know him? 
• What are the fruits of the new sense of brotherhood/sisterhood you have experienced in parish/community life?
• How can intimacy with Christ experienced by one person in a family, parish or community offer his living presence to the rest?
• Why is the pain of betrayal especially acute in relationships of love?
• Describe situations when suffering is a heavy load and/or a light burden when it is experienced within our closest relationships?
• What are some of the challenges of experiencing intimacy with Christ in a large parish community? What role can small groups play in promoting a real communion among parish families and friends?

• Responds to the call of the Lord’s intimacy lived out in our closest personal relationships
• Recognizes that genuine intimacy in human relationships requires a humble acknowledgment of our sinfulness and failings, yet supreme calling and dignity beyond the stars
• Goes "into the deep" on the Church's most intimate personal teachings on family and community life
• Acknowledges and allows him to redeem the grave sin of betrayal among persons
• Recognizes a brotherhood/sisterhood in the life of the Church that is rooted in the intimacy between Christ and his Bride
• Lives an intimacy with Christ that feeds a friendship willing to co-suffer with another through his passion.

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