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“Now as then, families today experience the risks and perils and vicissitudes of being human in our too cruel world,” reads the message. “Millions of families around the world are assailed by poverty and persecution, displaced by climate and disasters, torn apart as refugees flee from conflict and violence.”
Yet hope is born.
“Angels sing and shepherds kneel! God’s incarnation in human form, Jesus embodies God’s love and confirms our infinite value as children of God, elevating, illuminating, and enlarging our lives and the whole human family in a deeper kinship with God and each other,” reads the message.
The Holy Family is the icon of our kinship with God, each other, and the human prospect. “Through holy faith, we are invited into and united in God’s holy family. We are not alone in our struggles, pain and suffering. We are connected and interconnected. We are family. And Immanuel, God is with us forever!”
