Sunday 31st December 2017
The Feast of The Holy Family Masses 8.30am 10.15am 6pm ____________________________ ___________ St Peter's Catholic Church, Leigh on Sea EASTWOOD PARISH Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Our True Home: Scott Hahn Reflects on the Feast of the Holy Family Download Audio File Readings: Sirach 3:2-6 , 12-14 Psalm 128:1-2 , 3 , 4-5 Colossians 3:12-21 Luke 2:22-40 Why did Jesus choose to become a baby born of a mother and father and to spend all but His last years living in an ordinary human family? In part, to reveal God’s plan to make all people live as one “holy family” in His Church (see 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 ). In the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, God reveals our true home. We’re to live as His children, “chosen ones, holy and beloved,” as the First Reading puts it. The family advice we hear in today’s readings – for mothers, fathers and children – is all solid and practical. Happy homes are the fruit of our faithfulness to the