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The feast day of the Holy Family appropriately falls within the 8 days of Christmas, the celebration of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ.
Part of the mystery of the Incarnation is the fact that God not only became man, but that He joined Himself to a human family. This reveals that God desires His human creatures—His image-bearers—to play essential roles in redemptive history. We rarely ponder how incredible this is!
Think about it for a moment: the Holy Trinity entrusted two humans with the tremendous role of raising one of its "members" (astonishing!). The whole world could not contain God, yet He placed Himself inside the womb of a human mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. God created angelic beings with the power to collapse the universe, yet He gave Himself a lowly human father as a guardian and protector, St. Joseph.
The fact that throughout the ages God has invited humans into His grand redemptive story is simply profound. Surely we can marvel with Mary in her Magnificat, "The Almighty has done great things for me" (Luke 1:46-55).
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Part of the mystery of the Incarnation is the fact that God not only became man, but that He joined Himself to a human family. This reveals that God desires His human creatures—His image-bearers—to play essential roles in redemptive history. We rarely ponder how incredible this is!
Think about it for a moment: the Holy Trinity entrusted two humans with the tremendous role of raising one of its "members" (astonishing!). The whole world could not contain God, yet He placed Himself inside the womb of a human mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. God created angelic beings with the power to collapse the universe, yet He gave Himself a lowly human father as a guardian and protector, St. Joseph.
The fact that throughout the ages God has invited humans into His grand redemptive story is simply profound. Surely we can marvel with Mary in her Magnificat, "The Almighty has done great things for me" (Luke 1:46-55).