28 December 2025 - Feast of the Holy Family ‘A’
Si 3:2-6, 12-14; Col 3:12-21; Mt 2:13-15, 19-23
Homily
Throughout the Old Testament, but especially in the prophets—Hosea in particular—marital love is presented as the image par excellence of the relationship between God and his people and as the model for all communion between human beings. In the New Testament, this same marital love becomes the image of the relationship between Christ and his Church and the model for all forms of communion within the Church. Moreover, by creating man and woman in his image, God made them beings of communion, and when their union bears fruit in the coming of a child into the world, they reproduce on earth the mystery of the Trinity, where the Spirit springs from the love uniting the Father and the Son.