The Family
Christmas 1973 Christmas is a celebration of the family.But where was the most extraordinary family born, but in a cave in Bethlehem? It is there, with the birth of a baby, that it started. It is there that, for the first time, in the hearts of Mary and Joseph love was released for a third member: the God made man. The family: it is a word that contains an immense meaning: rich, profound, sublime and simple, and above all real.Either the family exists, or it does not.The atmosphere of a family is an atmosphere of under¬standing, of calm relaxation, one of unity, mutual love, peace that affects the mem¬bers in the whole of their being.My wish this Christmas would be that one word be branded in letters of fire on our souls: family.A family, whose members starting with a supernatural vision, seeing Jesus in others, end with the most down-to-earth and simple expressions typical of family life. A family whose members do not have a heart of stone but a heart