FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY December 28, 2025

The Feast of the Holy Family fittingly takes the place of the Sunday in the Octave of Christmas.

     The Entrance Antiphon recalls that God the Son, in becoming man, makes His home on earth. He takes to Himself the natural human loyalty and affection of a family, and gives obedience and devotion to His human parents.

     We are reminded that the Family is the "Church in the Home", in which we first learn the ways of the Faith: our prayers and the richness of loving human relation-ships. The Family bond reflects in a way the life of the Blessed Trinity as a communion of Persons bound together in an unbreakable unity of love.

     In His family, Our Lord learnt love and self-sacrifice, the very qualities that prepared Him for His Public Ministry and the Work of our Redemption.

Together with Fr Rafal, Deacon George, Deacon Oliver and the parish staff, I wish you and yours a blessed Christmas season and every good wish in the year to come.  ~  Fr. Paul Dobson