Happy feast of the Holy Family!
For the vast majority of us, our sanctification comes through our role in a family. I will stand before God and be judged by how good a husband and father I was. And in th Holy Family of Nazareth, we have the perfect example of home life.
From the collect of the Mass:
“O Lord Jesus Christ, You Who while subject to Mary and Joseph, hallowed family life with virtues beyond description, grant us by their combined intercession, that, having been taught by the example of the Holy Family, we may attain unto their everlasting companionship. Qui Vivis et Regnas…”
To die in the grace of Our Lord’s Holy Church, with the names of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph on my lips… This is my aspiration. To imitate more perfectly in this life the purity if St. Joseph, the humility of the Blessed Mother, and the supernatural charity of Our Lord is my plan to get there.
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