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Pope Says Family Reveals Nature of God : 14th Jan 09
Pope Says Family Reveals Nature of God
On the feast of the Holy Family, Pope Benedict XVI said that families reveal what God Himself is: love. The Pontiff affirmed this during his address before praying the midday Angelus recently in St. Peter’s Square. “Jesus”, the Holy Father noted, “wanted to be born and grow up in a human family; he wanted the Virgin Mary to be his mother and Joseph to fulfill the role of father.
They raised and educated him with immense love”. The Pontiff said that Jesus’ family “truly merits the title of ‘holy’, since it is entirely focused on the desire of fulfilling the will of God, incarnated in the adorable presence of Jesus”.
He suggested that the Holy Family is both similar to and different from other families: “In one sense it is a family like all others, and as such, it is a model of conjugal love, collaboration, sacrifice, confidence in divine providence, a spirit of work and solidarity.
At the same time, though, the family of Nazareth is unique, different from all others, because of its singular vocation, linked to the mission of the Son of God”. Zenit. January 1.
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