Feast of the HOLY FAMILY

 FEAST* of the HOLY FAMILY of

Jesus, Mary and Joseph

*The Sunday between Christmas and New Year's Day;

If both are Sundays, the feast is celebrated on December 30

“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph had only one life, one purpose:

To glorify the Heavenly Father.  That is what we also

must want.  To achieve it, we have to enter into union

with Mary and Joseph, share their life--family life,

the intimate interior life of which God alone is secret. 

What happiness to be called to this life.  Our love

will consist in living with Mary and Joseph

on the love of Jesus Eucharistic.”

St. Peter Julian Eymard

 

The vocation of the Family

is to support one another

on the Highway of Holiness -

A highway will be there, a roadway,
And it will be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean will not travel on it,
But it will be for him who walks that way,
And fools will not wander on it. - Isaiah 35:8

As Herod tried to destroy the Holy Family (see Mt 2:13), so new Herods

are trying to destroy your family and its holiness. Protect your family
by sacrificially and unconditionally loving both your parents and children. 
Let us be holy.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, pray for us!