Our families and the Holy Family
On Sunday we celebrated the Feast of the Holy Family. Pope St. Paul VI was one of the first moden popes to travel extensively. He visited Nazareth in the Holy Land in the 1960s and offered this beautiful reflection on the Holy Family (from the Church's breviary prayer book, the Divine Office. om an address given at Nazareth by Pope Paul VI The example of Nazareth The home of Nazareth is the school where we begin to understand the life of Jesus – the school of the Gospel. The first lesson we learn here is to look, to listen, to meditate and penetrate the meaning – at once so deep and so mysterious – of this very simple, very humble and very beautiful manifestation of the Son of God. Perhaps we learn, even imperceptibly, the lesson of imitation. Here we learn the method which will permit us to understand who Christ is. Here above all is made clear the importance of taking into account the general picture of his life among us,...
