As we meditate upon the Holy Family created at Bethlehem (where the Child was born) and Nazareth (where He grew up), we turn our minds to the very concept of family and family life as the Church looks at it. We look at the Holy Family as the ideal that we all reach for, while weContinue reading “Love and humility within the family (Holy Family Sunday)”
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The Holy Family of JM&J (Sunday within the octave of Christmas)
Our festival this weekend centres on the Holy Family in Bethlehem, and then in Nazareth, and then in exile in Egypt to escape the wicked king Herod, and then in the later flourishing in Nazareth. In the circle of the Immaculate Virgin, her silent but certain protector S. Joseph and the God-man Christ passing graduallyContinue reading “The Holy Family of JM&J (Sunday within the octave of Christmas)”