The feast of the Holy Family, celebrated this year on Dec. 29, is a beautiful way within the Christmas Octave to honor the human family to which Jesus belonged. The Holy Family of Jesus ...

But as I prepare to celebrate Christmas, it adds another dimension ... our homes and churches with images of a perfect family—the holy family, with a doting Mary and Joseph leaning over the ...

One Irish Christmas tradition that has spread across the world is placing a candle in the window. It recalls the Holy Family seeking shelter but finding no room in the inn. For my ancestors ...

Speaking just hours after his wartime Christmas visit to Gaza City Holy Family Parish, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, delivered a poignant Christmas message during ...

The flight of the holy family is more than a historical curiosity. It points us toward the breadth and beauty of God’s redemption. The Christmas story is not a story of peace and quiet but a ...

Christmas categorically is not just for the ... of Bethlehem to avoid a rival child growing up to displace him. The holy family fled as refugees to Egypt. Yes, this is a story with all the turmoil ...

Holy Family parishioners and neighbors enjoyed brunch on Christmas morning at the church halls of Our Lady of Joy in Plum and St. Joseph in Verona. The Christmas brunches at the parish ...

“I wanted to enfranchise all of these characters and have it be almost the Holy Family.” Only in this Christmas scene, father and child do not like each other, and the mother is grieving a son ...