Last Thursday we celebrated the joyful birth of Our Lord. God became man,
so that we could share in His own divine life. But before we can share His
divine life, He shares in our human life. And to share in human life is to live
in family life and to experience, for better and for worse, the close interaction
between people; to experience the joys and the sorrows of family living.
Jesus, in His family with Mary and Joseph, experiences the full range of
family life. And it t is within the context of His family life that, “the child Jesus
grew to maturity, and He was filled with wisdom and God's favor was with
Him” (Lk 2:40). The family is the place where faith in God is to be nurtured.
We come from different families, and our family backgrounds shaped us
through the years. Jesus came from a family, and we celebrate his family
every first Sunday after Christmas.
As we celebrate the Holy Family of Joseph, Mary and Jesus, let us reflect
on the sanctity of the family and the challenges of building a holy family.
Obviously, there are so many definitions of family in the modern world and
some of these definitions are a far cry from the traditional and Christian
understanding of family. Broadly speaking a family is a group of people who
are related to each other. The Church defines family as “A divinely instituted
community of persons made of husband, wife, children and relatives open
to life in love.”
Read More
|
.jpg)
.jpg)
