12/28/14 - FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY (Luke 2:22-40) What is the status of many modern families today? They are always wired to their gadgets that connect them to the World Wide Web. What was the status of the family twenty five years ago? They were strongly connected with each other for they often communicate. They were wired also not by any means of high-tech gadgets but they were wired to each and every member of their family. For life then was so simple, there was no internet or any kind of high-tech gadgets. The modern family of today seldom talks with each other; they have more time with their gadgets than with their fellow human being. What a sad fact of modern life! But this is the reality of the modernity of life: We have more time with gadgets and internet yet less time for person to person interaction. Twenty five years ago life was very simple and serene; children were more respectful to their parents. And the parents of yesterday had more time for their children than the modern and high-tech parents of today. We need not go far to prove this sad fact of modern family life we simply have to look at our own respective families today. Today we celebrate in a very special way the feast of the Holy Family of Joseph, Jesus and Mary. The simple and humble model family that we must all emulate, they had no means of material wealth yet they were happy and they had contentment. Why? For the simple reason that God was at the center of their lives. They worship God as a family and they faithfully observe the teachings of their Jewish faith. How many of us worship God as a family? How many of our modern family faithfully observes the discipline of the Catholic Church? Many parents today are disheartened by the actuations of their grown-up children. Many parents would say, “I never brought you up to become so arrogant and so disrespectful to me. But on hindsight, did these parents invest time on their children? Did they bring them to church for Holy Mass? Did they teach them our Catholic faith? Did they open to them the life of Jesus which is always available in the bible? The Holy Family of Jesus, Joseph and Mary is telling us to go back to the basics of family life. Keep family life simple and pure, communicate more often have more time for face to face family interaction. Listen more to your spouse and your children for they have so many personal stories to tell you. And last but certainly not the least is to bring your entire family to church for Holy Mass. How’s your modern family today? - Marino J. Dasmarinas (mjdasma.blogspot/)
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:42:50 +0000
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