#holy family
See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called children of God. ~Christmas Antiphon on the Feast of the Holy Family
The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish; 1577–1640)
ca. 1610–20
Oil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Merry Christmas // Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia!
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
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Niechaj droga wschodzi przed Tobą.
Niech wiatr będzie zawsze na Twoich plecach.
Niech słońce jaśniejąc ogrzewa Twoją twarz.
Niech deszcz delikatnie zrasza Twoje pola.
Niech Pan strzeże od zarazy Twoje domostwo,
I aż do dnia, gdy spotkamy się znowu
Niechaj Bóg Cię chroni w zagłębieniu Swoich dłoni.
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12/03/2021
Seamingly, the seems of this seamstress seam stressful.
JOKE-OGRAPHY:
Mary is attempting to weave a seamless garment for Jesus (as seen in John 19), but in this cartoon, she admits she’s not yet good enough to make it right. From the reading I’ve done, it seams the seemless garment is a symbol of priesthood in the Old Testament. Mary says her current attempt has seams, so it “seems less than perfect”, but she’s determined that she’ll get it right one day, and at that point, the garment she makes will be “seamless and perfect”, a reiteration of the previous sentence, where “seem less” becomes “seamless”, “than” becomes “and”, and “perfect” stays the same, because it’s perfect just the way it is. For more reading on the seamless garment idea, check out this slick article I stumbled on: https://nowthatimcatholic.com/2019/03/15/question-what-is-the-significance-of-jesus-seamless-garment/
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Josefa de Óbidos (Josefa de Ayala Figueira)
The Holy Family (1664)
Destroyed by fire on December 24, 2013 at the Convento de Santa Cruz do Buçaco (Luso, Portugal)
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Hello everyone!
I wanted to share something very cool with you all today!
Here we have a very peculiar nativity scene in which saint Joseph is holding baby Jesus!
This is something very unusual, but I personally think it’s pretty neat!
Hope you enjoyed this post and have a great evening!
Holy Family
Sulky teenager Jesus in Simone Martini’s Holy Family, fourteenth century. Image from: http://www.artunframed.com/martini_2.htm
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family portrait
‘Ælfwine’s Prayerbook’, Winchester c. 1030
BL, Cotton Titus D XXVII, fol. 75v
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O St. Joseph whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the Throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires. O St. Joseph do assist me by your powerful intercession and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings through Jesus Christ, Our Lord; so that having engaged here below your Heavenly power I may offer my Thanksgiving and Homage to the Most Loving of Fathers. O St. Joseph, I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms. I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press him to my name and kiss His fine Head for me, and ask Him to return the Kiss when I draw my dying breath. St. Joseph, Patron of departing souls, pray for us. Amen.
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Tu Deus trinus paritérque et unus,
Qui pater cunctis opiféxque rerum,
Fac patrem Joseph imitémur actu,
Morte imitémur. Amen.
God, who art one and three-fold in being,
Father and Maker of all of the living,
Make us to imitate Joseph our father,
Living and dying. Amen.
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