El Papa Francisco inicia una serie de reflexiones sobre la familia. The first installment of Pope Francis talks is indicative, they will be in his usual conversational and folksy style, in contrast to the philosophical meditations of St. John Paul. In the talk, delivered a week before Christmas Eve, Pope Francis reflected that God chose to become man not spectacularly, or as a warrior, an emperor but as the son of a pious and hardworking Israelite family in a forlorn village on the periphery of the Roman empire. Noting that the Gospels offer no details on Jesus youth and upbringing, the pope imagined the Holy Familys daily life: The mother cooked, kept house, ironed the shirts, did all the work of a mom. The dad, a carpenter, worked, taught his son to work. It is not difficult to imagine how much moms could learn from Marys care for that son, and how much dads could benefit from the example of Joseph, a just man, who devoted his life to supporting and defending his child and wife, his family, in difficult periods. Not to speak of how much the adolescent Jesus might encourage kids to understand the necessity and beauty of cultivating their deepest vocation, and of dreaming big dreams, Pope Francis said. The family of Nazareth calls on us to rediscover the vocation of the family, of every family, the pope said: to make love normal instead of hate, to make mutual assistance a common thing, rather than indifference or enmity. This is the great mission of the family: to make a place for Jesus when he comes, to welcome Jesus in the family, in the form of children, husband, wife, grandparents, he said. Jesus is there. Welcome him there, that he might grow spiritually in that family.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:49:42 +0000
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