Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family and it invites us to look at the home of Nazareth, to look at the lives of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and to see it not as something distant or idealized, but as a real family. They were real people, living ordinary life but with extraordinary…
As we heard at the beginning of our liturgy this evening/morning, today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family, a day when we look to the family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as a model for our own families. But we also look to them to be the model for our parish, especially as…
Growing up, so many of my favorite television shows focused on the family unit. Shows like Family Matters, Full House, Home Improvement, 7th Heaven. I even would watch reruns of those classic television shows like The Andy Griffith Show, The Brady Bunch, and Leave it to Beaver. Why was I – and likely why were…
Fr. Tom Pringle 