The Pope’s prayer intention for May is simple: that everyone might have food and that food is not wasted. It sounds ordinary, almost too simple to notice. Yet it speaks into a world where something deeply disproportionate has become normal.
Holy Family feast is the central theme of our faith Journey. It started with the Trinity. Our God lives in a family. Three persons sharing equally, not competing. Trinity is a symbol of family.
Where is the child wrapped in swaddling clothes? Where is his mother Mary and his father Joseph? Where are the shepherds who hear the ‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’?
When homeschool fathers need inspiration, ask for St. Thomas More’s help, to be like him, “God’s good servant”, offering love and sacrifice for our family.
The faithful need clarity, consistency and conviction. There is a time for silence, but speaking up at this point is pertinent, important and urgent to end the confusion.
Is there any affliction now endured by mankind that was not endured by our fathers before us? What sufferings of ours even bear comparison with what we know of their sufferings?
Mary the maiden from Nazareth was raised to the pinnacle of glory today. The human family joins her in her blessings. She is celebrated by the great English poet as “our tainted nature’s solitary boast.”
Today is August 9, a dark date in the history of mankind. The date when human history changed forever. The date when man’s evil surpassed the evil of Lucifer.
On this Sunday, the readings turn our attention to the problem of hunger and the miracle of the multiplication of five loaves and two fish to feed more than five thousand people.
May we celebrate the gift of our parents today. As St. Anne and Joachim brought forth our mother Mary, the protector of all against the pandemic, let each family be the holy family and let parents and children stand together at this moment of COVID-19 challenge.
