On this great feast, we see how united Joseph and Mary are during their flight into Egypt to escape the murderous Herod, who sought to “search” out and “destroy” the Christ-child.
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The Gospel today says that Mary and Joseph “went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover… according to festival custom”.
Our Lady and St. Joseph always did everything the Law of the Lord required, and these things included not only going up to Jerusalem each year, but also the rite of circumcision of the child Jesus as well as the rites of “purification” of the mother and the “presentation” of the first-born son.
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The family is the “Sanctuary of Life” and the basic cell of society. The Holy Family, of course, is unique. One member is God, another is sinless, and the third is a saint. But the great lesson of today is that although God could have come into the world in any way he pleased, he chose to become a member of a family, obedient to his earthly parents, and yet totally devoted to the Heavenly Father’s will, as we all must be.
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