Collect for the Feast of the Holy Family

MASS READINGS

December 29, 2019 (Readings on USCCB website)

COLLECT PRAYER

O God, who were pleased to requite us the shining instance of the Holy Family, graciously grant that we may imitate them in practicing the virtues of family life and in the bonds of charity, and and then, in the joy of your house, delight one day in eternal rewards. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for always and always.

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Recipes (one)

• Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

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Activities (7)

• Christmas at Home and in the Liturgy
• Solar day Three ~ Activities for the Feast of the Holy Family unit
• Explanation of the Poesy: 'Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature'
• Feast of the Holy Family
• Feast of the Holy Family unit - II
• Introducing the Holy Family to Your Babe
• The Home, a Training Ground

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Prayers (fourteen)

• Consecration of the Family unit to the Holy Family unit I
• Consecration of the Family to the Holy Family unit II
• Parents' Prayer for Children
• Consecration to the Holy Family
• Christmas Tabular array Approving 1
• Christmas Table Blessing 2
• Christmas Table Blessing 3
• Christmas Table Blessing 4
• Book of Blessings: Approval Before and After Meals: Christmas Season (2d Plan)
• Parental Approving
• Prayer to the Holy Family
• Prayer of Parents for Their Children
• Novena to the Holy Family unit
• Book of Blessings: Blessing Before and After Meals: Christmas (1st Plan)

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Library (four)

• Bridegroom Xvi Angelus Accost for Feast of the Holy Family 2010 | Pope Bridegroom XVI
• Christian Matrimony: a Covenant of Honey and Life | Cardinal Bernard Police force
• Holy Family Teaches Us What Is Essential | Pope Saint John Paul 2
• Indulgenced Prayer for a Christian Family unit | Unknown

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Scripture tells the states practically nothing almost the first years and the boyhood of the Child Jesus. All we know are the facts of the sojourn in Arab republic of egypt, the return to Nazareth, and the incidents that occurred when the twelve-twelvemonth-old boy accompanied his parents to Jerusalem. In her liturgy the Church hurries over this period of Christ'due south life with equal brevity. The full general breakdown of the family, even so, at the end of the past century and at the beginning of our ain, prompted the popes, especially the far-sighted Leo XIII, to promote the observance of this feast with the hope that information technology might instill into Christian families something of the faithful love and the devoted attachment that characterize the family of Nazareth. The primary purpose of the Church in instituting and promoting this feast is to present the Holy Family equally the model and exemplar of all Christian families.

— Excerpted from With Christ Through the Twelvemonth, Rev. Bernard Strasser, O.Southward.B.

The feast of St. Thomas Becket, which is usually celebrated today, is superseded by the Sunday liturgy.

Click hither for commentary on the readings in the Extraordinary Class of the Roman Rite.

Banquet of the Holy Family - Twenty-four hours Five
Today is the feast day of the Holy Family, but also every family's feast day, since the Holy Family is the patron and model of all Christian families. Today should be a huge family unit feast, since it is devoted entirely to the Holy Family as a model for the Christian family life. As Rev. Edward Sutfin states:

"The children must learn to see in their father the foster-father St. Joseph, and the Blessed Mother as the perfect model for their own mother. The lesson to exist learned is both practical and theoretical, in that the children must learn how to obey and to honey their parents in thought, word and action, just as Christ was obedient to Mary and Joseph. Helping female parent in the kitchen and in the house work, and helping father in his odd jobs about the home thus take on a new significance by being performed in a Christ-like spirit." (True Christmas Spirit, ©1955, St. Meinrad Archabbey, Inc.)

• Day Five activity (Holy Family Celebration)
• Day Five recipe (Popcorn Balls)

The Holy Family
Marriage is too oftentimes conceived as the sacrament which unites a man and a woman to form a couple. In reality, marriage establishes a family, and its purpose is to increment the number of the elect, through the actual and spiritual fecundity of the Christian spouses.

ane. Every marriage intends children. Although Mary and Joseph were not united in a carnal mode, their marriage is a truthful marriage: an indissoluble, sectional matrimony, wholly subordinated to the child. Mary and Joseph are united only in order to bring Jesus into the world, to protect and raise him. They have only one child, but he contains the whole of mankind, even as Isaac, an simply child, fulfilled the promise made to Abraham of a endless progeny.

2. The purpose of every marriage is to constitute a Christian family. The Holy Family observed the religious laws of Israel; information technology went in pilgrimage to Jerusalem every year with other Jewish families (Lk. 2:41). Jesus saddens and amazes his father and his mother considering to their volition and company he prefers "to be in his Father'south house". Thus it may happen that God's volition obliges the family to brand disconcerting sacrifices. Nevertheless every Christian family must alive in harmony and in prayer, which are the pledges of joy and union.

3. "He remained obedient to them." Jesus was God. And through the fullness of grace Mary stood higher up Joseph. Even so — if nosotros except the event in the Temple — Joseph remained the head of the family; he took the initiative (as when the Holy Family fled to Arab republic of egypt), and in Nazareth Jesus obeyed his parents.

Excerpted from Breadstuff and the Word, A.G. Roguet

The Holy Family: Jesus, Mary and Joseph
The devotion to the Holy Family was born in Bethlehem, together with the Baby Jesus. The shepherds went to admire the Child and, at the same time, they gave honor to His family. Afterwards, in a similar way, the iii wise men came from the E to adore and give honor to the newborn King with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh that would be safeguarded by His family.

Nosotros can go further to affirm that in a certain sense Christ, Himself, was the first devotee of His family. He showed His devotion to His female parent and foster father by submitting Himself, with infinite humility, to the duty of filial obedience towards them. This is what St Bernard of Clairvaux said in this regard, 'God, to whom angels submit themselves and who principalities and powers obey, was discipline to Mary; and not only to Mary but Joseph as well for Mary'south sake [….]. God obeyed a human being fauna; this is humility without precedent. A human creature commands God; it is sublime beyond measure.' (Starting time Homily on the 'Missus Est').

Today'south celebration demonstrates Christ's humility and obedience with respect to the fourth commandment, whilst also highlighting the loving care that His parents exercised in His keeping. The servant of God, Pope John Paul Ii, in 1989, entitled his Apostolic Exhortation, 'Redemptoris Custos' (Guardian of the Redeemer) which was dedicated to the person and the mission of Saint Joseph in the life of Christ and of the Church. After exactly a century, he resumed the didactics of Pope Leo Xiii, for who Saint Joseph '.. shines amidst all flesh by the well-nigh august dignity, since by divine will, he was the guardian of the Son of God and reputed as His father amongst men' (Encyclical Quamquam Pluries [1889] n. three). Pope Leo Xiii connected, '.. Joseph became the guardian, the administrator, and the legal defender of the divine firm whose chief he was.[…] It is, then, natural and worthy that every bit the Blessed Joseph ministered to all the needs of the family at Nazareth and girt it almost with his protection, he should now cover with the cloak of his heavenly patronage and defend the Church building of Jesus Christ.' Not many years before, blessed Pope Pius IX had proclaimed Saint Joseph, 'Patron of the Catholic Church building' (1870)

Nigh intuitively, one tin can recognize that the mysterious, exemplary, guardianship enacted by Joseph was conducted firstly, in a nevertheless more intimate manner, by Mary. Consequently, the liturgical feast of the Holy Family speaks to united states of the fond and loving care that we must render to the Body of Christ. We can understand this in a mystical sense, equally guardians of the Church, and also in the Eucharistic sense. Mary and Joseph took slap-up care of Jesus' physical torso. Following their example, we can and must have great care of His Mystical Torso, the Church building, and the Eucharist which He has entrusted to us. If Mary was, in some way, 'the first tabernacle in history' (John Paul II Ecclesia de Eucharistia, n. 55) and so we the Tabernacle in which Our Lord chose to reside in person, in His Real Presence, was also entrusted to us. We can learn from Mary and Joseph! What would they ever have overlooked in the care of Jesus' concrete body? Is there something, therefore, that we can withhold for the correct and adoring intendance of His Eucharistic Body? No amount of attending, no sane human activity of dear and adoring respect volition ever be likewise much! On the contrary, our adoration and respect will e'er be inferior to the bully gift that comes to united states in the Holy Eucharist.

Looking at the Holy Family, we meet the love, the protection, and the diligent care that they gave to the Redeemer. We can not fail to feel uneasiness, mayhap a shameful thought, for the times in which nosotros have not rendered the appropriate care and attention to the Blessed Eucharist. We can only inquire for forgiveness and do penance for all the sacrilegious acts and the lack of respect that are committed in front of the Blessed Eucharist. We can only ask the Lord, through the intersession of the Holy Family of Nazareth, for a greater honey for their Son Incarnate, who has decided to remain here on earth with u.s. every day until the end of fourth dimension.

From the Congregation for the Clergy

Things to Do:

• Let united states imitate the Holy Family unit in our Christian families, and our family unit will be a cell and a prefiguration of the heavenly family. Say a prayer dedicating your family to the Holy Family unit. Likewise pray for all families and for our state to uphold the sanctity of the marriage bond which is under attack.
• Read more near Pope Leo 13 who instituted the Feast of the Holy Family and read his encyclical On Christian Marriage. Y'all tin besides check out the Vatican'southward page of Papal documents on the Family.
• Read the explanation of Jesus' knowledge in the activities department. Read Pope Pius X's Syllabus of Errors which condemns the modernist assertion that Christ did non ever possess the consciousness of His Messianic nobility.
• Have the whole family participate in cooking dinner. You might try a Lebanese repast. Some suggestions: stuffed grape leaves, stuffed cabbage rolls, lentils and rice, spinach and meat pies, craven and dumplings, hummus, Lebanese bread, tabbouleh — a Lebanese salad and kibbi, a traditional Lebanese dish of specially ground meat mixed with spices and cracked wheat. This is the aforementioned kind of nutrient that Mary served Jesus and St. Joseph. It's healthy and delicious.

Commentary for the Readings in the Boggling Course:
Sunday in the Octave of the Nativity
"Behold, this Child is destined for the autumn and for the rise of many in Israel" (Gospel).

This prophecy that Jesus is also "a sign that shall be contradicted," indicates what we, too, may expect every bit "sons of God"; nevertheless information technology strengthens our promise, if we merely place ourselves daily under Mary'due south intendance; then the final words of the Gospel may also be practical to us: "the Child grew and became stiff. . .full of wisdom."

Aye, nosotros are the "sons" and heirs" of God, Whom we can call "Father," because of "His Son, born of a adult female," Mary (Epistle). Hence, Jesus, our Blood brother, actually "leapt down from heaven. . .with beauty. . .with force" (Introit), to "straight our actions" in His "Name"(Prayer).

In the Gradual we offer our "good word" of gratitude for the last victory. Then nosotros will realize that Antichrists "who sought the Child's life are expressionless" (Communion Verse).

Excerpted from My Dominicus Missal, Confraternity of the Precious Claret

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Source: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm?date=2019-12-29

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