Study of the Readings
Ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
It is 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.
John J. Pilch
Defining the family is never easy. The challenge was no different in the ancient world than it is in modern cultures.
Christ became the light of revelation to the Gentiles, but he is also the glory of Israel.
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.
Reginald H. Fuller
The Christian family is the divinely provided context in which the Christian child may grow to physical, mental, and spiritual maturity.