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The Holy Family
December 31, 2017
Spirituality of the Readings

John Foley, SJ

In the Shade

The holidays had and have a big footprint. That is why I wonder about the Church having placed the feast of the Holy Family in between Christmas and New Years. Mightn’t this put family into the shade?

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In Exile

Ron Rolheiser

Robert Moore on Human Energy

Why is there such a resistance in us regarding being aware of the great presence? Why our habitual refusal of the awareness of God? Why do we prefer to walk alone, without God?

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Glancing Thoughts

Eleonore Stump

Peace, Consolation, and Glory

Here’s the undeniable humiliation of having to wait. A person who waits knows that what he wants depends on things outside his own control. Having to wait brings home to him his vulnerability and neediness.

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The Perspective of Justice

Gerald Darring

The Good of the Family

Perhaps it is no accident that in this age of the universally recognized disintegration of the family, the world is also experiencing a breakup into rich and poor, developed and underdeveloped, the privileged and the marginal.

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Discussion Questions

Anne Osdieck

Faith as a Family

Why do you think Sirach says that good things happen to you when you honor your parents (prayers heard, sins atoned, long life, made happy by children)?     

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A Poem to Sit With

J. Janda

How could
Joseph …

fashion a journey

which had neither

the sound nor feel

of what he had known

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