Anime Lectio: The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons - The Story of a Family

                                                             1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 

2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace.

3. Deep Breathing

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. 

4. Open yourself to God’s Presence

Remember God places all our thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of other people you know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence.  

5. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me. 

Raising a family of any kind is difficult since any kind of family is really a community that's made up of individual members united for a specific purpose that doesn't always agree on how to get to said purpose.  This is even more difficult when the people or person, which is even more difficult when it's only one person, decides to lead this community without experience as a leader of one after the experienced leader(s) suddenly is gone.  An example of this can be seen in the anime series The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons - The Story of a Family.

6. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

After their parents are killed in a sudden accident, the oldest son of these parents decides to raise his three younger brothers on his own, despite the fact that he's already busy as a teacher and made the decision to raise his three younger brothers on his own without really thinking about it (he actually does this at the funeral for his parents after talking about that with other relatives). Various adventures ensue with the three younger brothers trying to help their oldest brother in ways that they can do that, which includes members of a family living near them and other friends of these brothers. In the process of helping each other, they all learn more about themselves, as well as about each other.

7.  Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime shed any light on what's been on your minds?  The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.

As I mentioned in the reflection before the explanation of the anime series, it's really difficult to lead a community when only one person decides to do it. However, when one person decides to do this that doesn't mean that the community doesn't help this person. Community only works when people within the community help each other in order to help not only themselves, but also people who help their community and/or are part of it. Even the younger brothers of the oldest son in this anime series understand this and these younger brothers are children. Even if they don't understand it, they help anyway, either because they think they have to, want to, or are told to do that. This is something that we can all do. Understanding it doesn't matter, especially since people can help you with this understanding, which is seen in this anime series. Doing it does matter.

8. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime.  The following is an example written by me.

Let us pray that we can understand what leading a community means and with this understanding, help this leader however we can.