The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph B Lk 2,22-4ß

Strengthen the family community.

How do we feel when we pronounce mom, father, son, daughter, grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister? When we add mine, mine, we get an even clearer picture than a photograph of someone with whom we are connected not only by a bond of blood but especially by the content of the word love.
My family is not only names, people’s faces, dates, but also responsibility, worry, upbringing, but also joys and difficulties, mutual service, all in the spirit of God’s and the church’s commands.
We are not surprised that the Holy Family’s feast has a justified place in the time of the most beautiful feasts. When we meet for at least a few days and have more time for ourselves, we feel more love; we experience moments of well-being, it is also time to think about “our family.” It is not enough to say something, for example, that children are growing, that we are aging, that we have acquired something, we own it, but also that it distances us from each other, condemns us, coldly…

The Gospel reminds us of several things when Joseph and Mary sacrifice Jesus in the temple, and Simeon and Anna come to take the child in their arms and show their relationship with him.

When God decided to redeem man, He began His work from the family. He was born and raised in the family to sanctify her. The Church gives the Holy Family of Nazareth as a model and ideal of every human family. Jesus’ parents did not have it easy, as if it seemed at first glance. How many strange things have happened in their lives! The conception itself, the events just before Jesus’ birth, and the very space where Mary called the Child. The words of Simeon: “He is ordained for a fall and an uprising for many in Israel, and for a sign that they will oppose” to reveal the minds of many hearts. “(Lk 2: 34-35), And these were not all their troubles. This was followed by an escape to Egypt, a few years of the loss of Jesus in the temple. Joseph, Mary, and Jesus do the will of God.

And it is the non-fulfillment of God’s will that makes the holidays unpleasant for many, and thus the Sunday of the Holy Family. Others rejoice, rejoice, endow themselves, and they feel the opposite. They bet on the wrong card; they boarded the wrong train in life. They preferred everything, not God. They renounced God’s blessing, excluded God from life, suffered from the physical when they laughed at the spiritual, preferred comfort, travel, material things, bodily beauty to a child, even children who, although conceived out of love, did not find themselves in a cradle. And they could not say, Mother, Father, but they were found in the bins when the hands of those who were to protect their lives were forcibly taken from them.

We look forward to the holidays and come to ask our dearest ones that God may bless them, fill them with peace and love. How beautiful it is when we say to God today: Thank you for the gift of life through your parents. They may already be in God’s truth, but how happy they and we are that we live can see, feel, hear, and know the beautiful world.
Although there is talk in the world of the crisis of the family, it is right that today we ask the Holy Family for our loved ones, for their physical, spiritual and mental gifts, that we want them in this St. Masses be given when we ask them for graces, gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We thank our parents for being able to come, grow, and live in an orderly and complete family in which we have seen the example and example of Christian life. That is why we point out today that the same goal cannot be found in same-sex families that can make a person happy even before God. Today, we are pushing for the world to realize that trial marriages are not so good for the spouses themselves and not for the children of such marriages at all. We want to raise the voice that it is against nature, against human honor, against the will of God, when some want to live in a common marriage as man and man, woman and woman. Today we also pray for those who have wrong views on men’s mission, women to live together. An incomplete family cannot be ideal, not even when a woman wants a child but does not want a man. A child needs a father for a healthy physical and mental life.

We ask ourselves and every one the strength for a pure premarital, married, and widow’s life. The temptation of the body is mainly in the relaxed morale of the mass media. Today, we pray for all legislators to protect our families by law. Woe to those from whom outrage comes! Woe to those who offend even one little one! We pray for those who have fallen that they will not despair and return as a prodigal son from the parable of Jesus because a loving father awaits them. We pray for those who are wounded by sin to adopt the spirit of repentance and realize that as Jesus did not condemn a woman caught in a sin, he will not condemn them as they embark on a new path of life.

We are all one big family. It is up to us as a family to build our happiness in Christ, his teachings, peace, and love. We want to prevent the sun from happiness in our families. We realize that the Holy Family of Nazareth is not old. On the contrary, if ever her pattern and strength were current, it is today.
The words of the French writer René Bazin apply: “Ask God to dwell in the midst of us. He is the fountain, the strength, and the goal of our love. ”Is it possible to find a nicer request for our families today? Moves that we need an example? The example of the life of the Holy Family is current. The author of many well-known songs, Father Duval, writes about his profession: “I was the fifth child out of nine. In our family, we were not brought up to false piety. Every night we met to pray the rosary. I will not forget those moments until death. I have my father before my eyes. Tired of working in the field or after other work, he knelt on the floor, leaned back in his chair, and placed his face in his palms. In my eyes, my father was powerful, often unyielding, who ran the whole house, who was not afraid of the bad or the rich, and my father bowed his head before God. I thought that God must be enormous when my father kneels before him, but God must be close when my father talks to him. I didn’t see my mother on my knees. It was done, sitting on the smallest chair in her arms, and the rest of us huddled around her. Her mouth moved silently from the beginning to the end of the rosary. And I thought God was good when a mother could talk to him with a baby in her arms. So the hands and mouths of my father and mother taught me more about God than the catechism. “

We realize that being a father and a mother is not easy. It is great and difficult art. John XXIII had to say, “It is easier for a father to have five children than for five children to give a good father. And the mother is true. Childbirth doesn’t make a woman a mother yet, just as having a piano in the house doesn’t mean I’m a pianist. “
The Holy Family teaches each of us how to become a good father, mother, son, or daughter. Learning from Joseph, Mary, and Jesus to live does not mean that we are outdated, old-fashioned… On the contrary, our view of them is the best school. Just as they did God’s will, it is right that we also have the best will, the desire to fulfill everything that our dearest and our God expect from us. Yes, our place is in the school of the Holy Family of Nazareth. And it is right that we realize that we are always the son or daughter of my parents, even if I am already called my mother, father. We are brothers and sisters both in the bloodline and about Jesus. For all this, let us thanks, please, beg and worship at the manger of the Child Jesus, at his mother the Virgin Mary, and their foster parent, St. Joseph.