Happy Family Day!

Consider the following for family activities in 2022:

• Jesus dwells in our home. Let us think together about the things that can help us remember that Jesus is not an image to venerate, but a living presence. We can turn to Him at any moment and in every room of our home
• Let us reflect in our family on the gift we have of giving everyone who enters our home the opportunity to encounter Jesus through the simplicity of how we welcome them.
• Let’s plan a time of prayer as a family or, if we already do that, let’s think together about for whom or for what particular situation to pray together.
• We could propose to our family a “week of forgiveness”: it could be a period in which everyone dedicates themselves in their own way to forgive others. At the end of the week, we could share our experiences of forgiveness.
• Pray one of these prayers with your family this year

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A message from Pope Francis
“God’s love is proclaimed ‘through the living and concrete word whereby a man and the woman express their conjugal love’. The two are thus mutual reflections of that divine love which comforts with a word, a look, a helping hand, a caress, an embrace. For this reason ‘to want to form a family is to resolve to be a part of God’s dream, to choose to dream with him, to want to build with him, to join him in this saga of building a world where no one will feel alone’ ”. AL 321

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