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The Feast of the Holy Family
Aleteia EN
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12/28/2023
A reflection upon the Feast of the Holy Family
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Today is the Feast of the Holy Family. In the Church we rejoice in the great joy that comes
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into the world when the Son of God becomes flesh and lives in the intimacy of the love of Joseph
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and Mary in Nazareth. And that same joy, that same closeness and intimacy is meant for us as well.
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What makes a family to be a happy family? It is that they have preferred love to everything else
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that can get in the way of that happiness happening for them. It's love that gives them
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the ability to rise above selfishness and pettiness and a lack of forgiveness and envy
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and all of the things that get in the way of being truly happy. And what makes a family holy?
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And it is simply that that family possesses that love, which is not an idea or a theory or a
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philosophy, but it is someone, Jesus, the love of God made flesh, who comes to dwell and live with
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us as a member of our own family. And he wants you to accept that same love, that same presence
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into your family so that whatever the challenges might be, whatever the struggles, whatever the
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sadnesses, whatever the sorrows, all of this can change in the way that only love makes possible.
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He's coming close to you now to give you that good beginning. Accept this love, possess it in
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your family life, and that's what we will all be praying for for you, all of us here at the
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Aletea family. God bless you.
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