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The Holy Family

December 31, 2017
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Study of the Readings
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Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
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Let the Scriptures Speak

Dennis
Hamm, SJ

It Takes a Covenant to Raise a Family

When we think of Mary, Joseph, and the child Jesus in splendid, nuclear isolation, we forget [that] no family in first-century Palestine lived disconnected from their network of relatives.

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The Word Encountered

John Kavanaugh, SJ

God Made Flesh

It is fitting that the holiness of the family also be celebrated at this time. For it is only by the ordinariness of being born, nurtured, and taught, so frail and dependent upon those who have welcomed us into their lives, that we ever grow in strength and grace.

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Historical Cultural Context

John J. Pilch

Children of God

Defining the family is never easy. The challenge was no different in the ancient world than it is in modern cultures. Even more difficult is deciding what kind of family is good and decent, and what kind of family is not.

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Thoughts from the Early Church

Cyril of Alexandria

He first became the salvation of the people and not of one people only but of many, indeed of all peoples and of the whole world. Christ thus became the light of revelation to the Gentiles, but he is also the glory of Israel. 

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Scripture In Depth

Reginald H. Fuller

The Holy Family is the paradigm for all Christian family life, for the Christian family is the divinely provided context in which the Christian child may grow to physical, mental, and spiritual maturity.

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