{"id":25200,"date":"2009-12-27T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/holy-family-the-octave-of-chri\/"},"modified":"2009-12-27T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T13:15:10","slug":"holy-family-the-octave-of-chri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/holy-family-the-octave-of-chri\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Family, the Octave of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Holy<\/a>Father, help us to live as a holy family, united in
\nrespect and love. Bring us to the joy and peace of your eternal home.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


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from the Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/i>:<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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The
\nhidden life at Nazareth allows everyone to enter into fellowship with Jesus by
\nthe most ordinary events of daily life:<\/span><\/div>\n

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The home of Nazareth is the school
\nwhere we begin to understand the life of Jesus – the school of the Gospel.
\nFirst, then, a lesson of silence<\/b>. May esteem for silence, that admirable and
\nindispensable condition of mind, revive in us. . . A lesson on family life<\/b>. May
\nNazareth teach us what family life is, its communion of love, its austere and
\nsimple beauty, and its sacred and inviolable character… A lesson of work<\/b>.
\nNazareth, home of the “Carpenter’s Son”, in you I would choose to
\nunderstand and proclaim the severe and redeeming law of human work. . . To
\nconclude, I want to greet all the workers of the world, holding up to them their
\ngreat pattern their brother who is God.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The finding of Jesus in the temple
\nis the only event that breaks the silence of the Gospels about the hidden years
\nof Jesus<\/span>. Here Jesus lets us catch a glimpse of the mystery of his total
\nconsecration to a mission that flows from his divine sonship<\/span>: “Did you not
\nknow that I must be about my Father’s work?” Mary and Joseph did not
\nunderstand these words, but they accepted them in faith. Mary “kept all
\nthese things in her heart” during the years Jesus remained hidden in the
\nsilence of an ordinary life. (533-534)<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
from the Directory of Popular Piety and the Liturgy<\/i> on the Feast of the Holy Family<\/span><\/div>\n

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The feast of the holy family of Jesus, Mary and
\nJoseph (Sunday in the Christmas octave) is a festive occasion particularly
\nsuitable for the celebration of rites or moments of prayer proper to the
\nChristian family. The recollection of Joseph, Mary and Jesus’ going up to
\nJerusalem, together with other observant Jewish families, for the celebration
\nof the Passover (cf. Lk 2:41-42), should normally encourage a positive
\nacceptance of the pastoral suggestion that all members of the family attend
\nMass on this day. This feast day also affords an opportunity for the renewal of
\nour entrustment to the patronage of the Holy Family of Nazareth; the
\nblessing of children as provided in the ritual; and where opportune, for
\nthe renewal of marriage vows taken by the spouses on their wedding day, and
\nalso for the exchange of promises between those engaged to be married in which
\nthey formalize their desire to found a new Christian family.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Outside of
\nthe feast, the faithful have frequent recourse to the Holy Family of Nazareth
\nin many of life’s circumstances: joining the Association of the Holy Family so
\nas to model their own families on the Holy Family of Nazareth; frequent
\nprayers to entrust themselves to the patronage of the Holy Family and to obtain
\nassistance at the hour of death. (112)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Father, help us to live as a holy family, united in respect and love. Bring us to the joy and peace of your eternal home. from the Catechism of the Catholic Church: The hidden life at Nazareth allows everyone to enter into fellowship with Jesus by the most ordinary events of daily life: The home … Continue reading Holy Family, the Octave of Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}