Hope, a virtue for today

December 2020 Retreat

By: Fr. Nivardo Quezada, LC

We recommend that you read, before watching and listening to the retreat “The Lord's Prayer: The Lord's Prayer (I)”, guidelines for making a spiritual retreat, suggested by the Regnum Christi Resource Center.

First thought

“Mary, Joseph, Jesus: the Holy Family of Nazareth representing a choral response to the Father's will: the three members of this family help each other to discover God's plan. They prayed, they worked, they communicated. And I ask myself: do you, in your family, know how to communicate or are you like those kids at the table, each with a cell phone, chatting? At that table there seems to be a silence as if they were at mass... But they are not communicating with each other. We must resume dialogue in the family: fathers, mothers, children, grandparents and siblings must communicate with each other... This is a task that must be done today, precisely on the Day of the Holy Family. May the Holy Family be a model for our families, so that parents and children support each other in fidelity to the Gospel, the foundation of the sanctity of the family.” (H.H. Francis, Angelus December 29, 2019).