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Connections. . .
The Holy Family
First Sunday after Christmas
Mary and Joseph took the child up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord...When they had fulfilled all the prescriptions of the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him. Luke 2:22-40
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. John 1:1-18
My dad's in Cooperstown
During the winter of 1993, construction workers at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, made a heartwarming discovery.
While remodeling a section of the museum, they found a photograph that someone had stuck in a crevice underneath a display case. The man smiling in the picture has a bat resting on his shoulders; he's wearing a baseball uniform with the words Sinclair Oil emblazoned across the chest. Stapled to the picture was a note, scribbled in pen:
"You were never too tired to play ball. On your days off, you helped build the Little League field. You always came to watch me play. You were a Hall of Fame Dad. I wish I could share this moment with you. You're Son,
Peter.
A son named Peter had managed to find a way to put his dad in baseball's Hall of Fame.
[Robert Lewis, Real Family Values.]
CONNECTION: Within our families we experience the heights of joy and the depths of pain. The memories we treasure, the values we learn in our families are the most important and lasting lessons we will ever learn. Our belonging to a family means that each one of us -- parent and child -- reflects for one another the selfless, limitless and unconditional love of Christ, both in good times and (more importantly) in bad times. The Holy Family of Joseph is a model for our own families as we confront the many tensions and crises that threaten the stability, peace and unity that are the joys of being a family.
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