December 28, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father Tom

Sunday, December 28

THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH
Sir 3: 2-14
Ps 128: 1-5
Col 3: 12-21
Lk 2: 22-40

The house of Nazareth was the dwelling place of virtue: piety, laboriousness, voluntary poverty, patience, recollectiveness, filial love on the part of Jesus, parental love on the part of Joseph and Mary, conjugal love between Mary and Joseph (SP Jan 1963).

From Father Tom:  We would hesitate-perhaps--to compare our home to the home of Nazareth, but that is because we think of Jesus, Mary and Joseph as being visible and obviously better than all the other villagers. Not so. His neighbors were astounded when he returned to Nazareth after a brief absence and spoke to them in the synagogue (Lk 4: 22). "Where did he get this learning? He's always been just one of the local men..." Holiness is mostly on the inside.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Bro. Giuseppe Caravina SSP (1970)--Maria Balint HFI (1986)--Sr. Cherubina Cordero FSP (1991)--Fr. Luigi Zanoni SSP (1995)--Fr. Remo Santi SSP (1996)--Sr. Luigina Borrano FSP (2002)--Fr. Giuseppe Amato IJP (2004)--Ramona Allen HFI (2008)--Michael A. Costello (1993)