"'What's your spirit animal?' The question sounds like a middle school-esque ice-breaker or some new-age quasi-spiritual appropriation of indigeneous religions. And it probably is. Either as a (mostly) harmless conversation starter about your meerkat-like personality or as a potentially pagan spirituality about guardian ghost animals, 'spirit animals' aren't a Christian thing.
"But, as it turns out, Christianity has a long tradition of describing the metaphorical virtues of animals and of using them as examples for our lives. . . ."
In a recent commentary using the example of monastic writer John Cassian's discussion of hedgehogs and stags, Brother Damian Day, O.P., reflected on how the grace of God, found in His cross, "transforms hedgehogs into stags, the weak into the strong, even us sinners into saints."
To access Br. Damien's complete reflection, please visit:
Dominicana: What’s Your Spirit Animal? (29 MAR 22)
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