“Brothers and sister: Put on, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another..”
The Holy Family faced much rejection, persecution and peril from their earliest days. We sometimes find degrees of that within our own families. St. Paul gives us a winning formula for families who are called to be holy. Put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, and forgiveness. Imagine!
Petition:
That our families may be modeled after the virtues of the Holy Family who withstood great difficulty from the earliest days….