28/12/2025

The Holy Family

Over the centuries that she has been an institution the Church founded by Jesus to be His presence amongst all subsequent generations until the end of time  has had as her focal point the first Mass, the "do this in remembrance of me" ; the Last Supper. 

In the "Upper Room were present the faithful Apostles, the traitor, and the "True Man and True God" who created in the seconds of real-time it took for him to say "This is my body" the completely new form of being to which he would bear witness by Cross and Resurrection. The Eucharistic Sacrament is the continuing Real Presence and is thus our Spiritual Food.

Eighty generations after that event I am a sinner grappling with all the mish-mash of historical truths, half-understood ideas, momentarily-grasped insights but fundamentally believing human being that makes me what I am today. 

Our Father knows that it is only because of "Woman behold your son. Son behold your mother" the invitation into the Church of Love, which requires only an open believing heart and does not need us to ignore an Institution's  present and past sinful entanglements with the things of this world if we are to share in the Mystical Real Presence promised by "This is my Body" that I am able to know that it is true that He will be with us always even to the end of time.

Jesus lived totally anonymously as a Jew for thirty years of his life. Joseph guarded the sinless holiness of Jesus and his mother. This is the Holy Family that the Church celebrates today. 

On his cross in the utter pain of his public death he creates directly by his words the spiritual relationship between himself, his sinless mother Mary and his beloved disciple John that we can all choose to become part of for it is this New Holy Family within which "even though heaven and earth pass away "MY WORD" will stand."