December 28 - Holy Family, Year A
(Sir.3:2-6,12-14; Ps.128:1-5; Col.3:12-21; Mt.2:13-15,19-23) "Let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body." A man is a man, a woman is a woman, and children are children – this does not change with time or culture. All are called to be one in the love and sacrifice of Christ; all are one holy family. Why do we find it necessary to make excuses for Holy Scripture and the "patriarchal family pattern" it reflects and "the subordinationist family ethic of the Biblical culture" (from the commentary of the missal from which I take today's…
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