Holy Family (2)

Family heart and head of household faith

lives of service to each other

family Body

each part different function

otherwise grey blob

not for self but other

even brain serves heart as heart brain

hand example

made in image,

not just one, but family

Paul 2nd

love sums up virtues

lives for NOT self

family life not for you but your Queen wife

not you but king husband

not parents but children

not children but parents

This above all destroys families: self

like Trinity, our very identity must be in other, then we find self

if not flowing water into other, then stagnent pool of self full of twitching creeping things

better understand uncomfortable in modern times that cowardly ignore

know everyone gets tense when said

‘wives be subordinate (which are left out with other verses)’

as JP II notes, mutual submission

husbands very being should service wife (as Scripture says even to die for her)

wives very being service husband

head of house Paul repeats in Scripture not about man being one served

rather than serving in unique role

not about domination or pagan misogynism of old was

same mistake: lack of love; living for self

our culture screams ME ME ME ME, my rights

our response should be YOU YOU YOU how can I serve

neither does the head have life without the heart nor heart without head

but these two fulfill the life of each other in diff ways

the family is not a grey amorphous blob as the world wants, but a welformedbody

We are one body

this day of the Holy family, how seek to serve?

we should be SCARMBLING to each be the better giver

world wants you scrambling for yourself

for that is why God came on Christmas in first place,

not to be served, but to serve

Notes

Me

wisdom comes from humble

kid teaching the doctors in church

Commentators

Pitre

passover passage

pilgrim feast

1 Samuel 2:26 “Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the Lord and with men.”

jewish trad that 12 when got called

virtues to for family life

JPii submission

mutual submission

Pius XI

not minors nor follow husband in unreason or immorality

head and heart

Origen

wisdom of God himself found in Temple not among masses or flesh

Ambrose

after 3 days found in temple