Mystery of the day: Glorious
"Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged." (Colosians 3:18-21)
Beloved in Christ from this One, Big and Happy Family - The ARCHIVE we send you warm wishes on this great feast of the Holy Family where St. Joseph was placed by God as the head, Our Lady, Blesssd Virgin Mary - the new ark of covenant and Jesus Christ the obedient messiah of humanity.
In this spirit, that we wish to reflect on the rudiments of what family - the domestic Church stands for. Taking cognizance of the Holy Family setting where Father-Mother-Son relationship exist devoid of enslavement of one another as it is the case today in some famiies. A situation where the father subjects the entire family into what could rightly referred to as "bloodline slavery"; where his paternal responsibilities are found in another undisclosed family.
Today, St. Paul in his epistle to the Church of Corinth avers:
"Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged." (Colosians 3:18-21)
This therefore is an invitation to be responsible to our calling as a father (husband), Mother (wife) and children.
Each and every one of us has a responsibility to cater for. Then, in this line of thought let us live out our callings to build up our homes - what the Second Vatican fathers referred to as "Domestic Church." For the beauty of our society lies in our respective homes.
Finally, let us make our families a home where peace could be seen as the foundation; so that we may grow in harmony for a better society.
Peace! Be with you.
Let us pray
O God, who were pleased to give us the shining example 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 so, 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, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
© The ARCHIVE. 26122021
Great homily, more grace fr. Good morning
ReplyDelete