Morning Prayer - FRIDAY, 30 Dec 2022

LISTEN | Morning Prayer - December 30, 2022 | Feast of the Holy Family

"The shepherds went in haste, and found Mary and Joseph and the Infant lying in a manger." - Luke 2:16

On this Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Scripture tells us practically nothing about the first years and the boyhood of the Child Jesus. All we know are the facts of the sojourn in Egypt, the return to Nazareth, and the incidents that occurred when the twelve-year-old boy accompanied his parents to Jerusalem. In her liturgy, the Church hurries over this period of Christ's life with equal brevity. The general breakdown of the family, however, at the end of the past century and at the beginning of our own, prompted the popes, especially the far-sighted Leo XIII, to promote the observance of this feast with the hope that it might instill into Christian families something of the faithful love and the devoted attachment that characterize the family of Nazareth. The primary purpose of the Church in instituting and promoting this feast is to present the Holy Family as the model and exemplar of all Christian families. (Catholicculture.org)

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, guide and protect all families in the world.

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