{"id":167809,"date":"2025-12-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carfundacion.roymo.info\/blog\/fiesta-de-la-sagrada-familia-cuna-de-la-vocacion-al-amor\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:09:01","slug":"fiesta-de-la-sagrada-familia-cuna-del-amor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/fiesta-de-la-sagrada-familia-cuna-del-amor\/","title":{"rendered":"December 28, Feast of the Holy Family, cradle of love"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family is defined as a school of love. This year, since Christmas does not fall on a Sunday, we celebrate the feast on the last Sunday of the year instead of the Friday before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00abThe Redeemer of the world chose the family as the place for his birth and growth, thus sanctifying this fundamental institution of every society.\u00bb Pope Saint John Paul II, Angelus message, December 30, 2001.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The teachings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The family<\/a> The family is an intimate communion of life and love, founded on marriage between a man and a woman, open to the gift of human life and love forever. This feast points to the Holy Family of Nazareth as the true model of life.<\/strong> All the families of the world should always turn to the protection of the Holy Family, in order to learn to live love and sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family is defined as a school of love and a domestic Church. The family is the providential place where we are formed as human beings and as Christians. Our family is where we grow in wisdom, age and grace before God and mankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It must be a place of dialogue between God and man, open to the Word and to listening. Seconded by the\u00a0family prayer<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that binds us together strongly. Saint John Paul II strongly recommended praying the Holy Rosary within families, and he kept in mind the saying: \u00abthe family that prays together, stays together.\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is for all these reasons that the Feast of the Holy Family invites us to welcome, live and proclaim the truth and beauty of the family, according to God's plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A family in Torreciudad giving thanks to the Virgin Mary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Source of priestly vocations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The identity of Christ and his mission have taken shape in history and in the world in the bosom of the Holy Family. We can say that this is the model within which, in the vast majority of cases, the Lord's call to the sons of Christian families to their consecration and vocation to the priesthood takes place. For this reason, the role of Christian families is fundamental in the emergence of vocations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both the priesthood<\/a><\/strong> and the consecrated life are free gifts from the Lord and it is indisputable that the vast majority of vocations arise from within families that believe and practice, from environments in which the values of the Holy Family of Nazareth are lived.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To discover this vocation, the role of parents in the formation of their children is crucial. No institution can replace their work in education \"especially as regards the formation of conscience. Any intrusion in this sacred sphere must be denounced because it violates the right of parents to transmit to their children an education in conformity with their values and beliefs\",<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cradle of the vocation to love<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the Familiaris consortio<\/em>Pope John Paul II taught that \"Christian marriage and the Christian family build up the Church: for in the Christian family the human person is not only brought into being and progressively introduced into the human community by means of education, but also by means of the rebirth of the human person. baptism<\/strong><\/a> and education in the faith in which the child is also introduced into the family of God, which is the Church\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The home that lives following the example of the Holy Family is a school of prayer. <\/strong>From an early age, children learn to place God spontaneously in the first place, recognizing Him and dialoguing with Him in all circumstances. TIt is also a school of lived faith,<\/strong> where learning does not take place in a theoretical way, but is embodied in everyday work. Likewise is a school of missionary diffusion <\/strong>as active promoters of consecrated vocations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living the gospel is not easy today, even more so in these times. However, In the Gospel we find the way to live a holy life on a personal and family level,<\/strong> a certainly demanding but fascinating path. We can follow the example of Jesus of Nazareth and thanks to his intercession.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In every home there are happy and sad, peaceful and difficult moments. Living the gospel does not exempt us from experiencing difficulties and tensions, from encountering moments of happy strength and moments of sad fragility. We must understand that it is the Holy Spirit who guides every human being today. But we must listen to the Spirit who speaks in us; we need a gaze of faith to grasp the reality beyond appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monsignor Javier Echevarr\u00eda<\/strong> at the shrine of Torreciudad alluded to the fact that it is the family home \"where the various vocations in the Church are forged\", and expressed the wish that families be \"truly Christian, that they consider the call of some of their sons to the priesthood a great divine blessing\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discernment of vocation in the Christian home<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pope Francis offers us in the apostolic exhortation Christus<\/em> vivit<\/a>ten guidelines for reflecting on the feast, home education and facilitating the process of vocational discernment for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n