READINGS AT MASS
Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14
Psalm 128
Col. 3:12-21
Mtt. 2:13-15, 19-23
Dear friends in Christ, N'wokafu YESU KRISTO...
Today is the last Sunday of the calendar year and the Feast of the Holy Family. We thank God for bringing us safely to the end of the year 2025. Let's be grateful for our families and the positive steps we have taken, whether large or small.
In recent years, families have been threatened or even destroyed through DNA testing. Many, especially fathers, have become overly interested in determining their true biological relationship with their children. This interest, however, poses a serious threat to the modern family. DNA testing can both reveal truths that most families are not ready for or be a source of malicious lies.
Beloved, a family is not determined by DNA. DNA tests may only prove biological relationships. But family is far deeper and more complex than just biological relationships.
In our Gospel text for today, we see how Joseph assumed full responsibility for the well-being and safety of the infant Jesus and His mother. Twice, he was asked to get up, take the child and the mother, and run, and he responded swiftly and responsibly. Joseph accepted that he was the father and husband of Jesus and Mary, even though he was not the biological father of the child.
We do not always have to be biologically related to become family. Children need not necessarily be our biological children to be called our children. Parents need not be biological to be respected. Let us have the courage to take full responsibility for all those who come under our care as a family. It does not matter where they come from or how they came to be part of the family. What is more binding is the love and unity we share in Christ.
PRAYER
Almighty God, grant unity and peace to our families. May we have the courage to accept one another in love. Amen.
May God bless you.
Fr. Kenneth Debre
Sunday, December 28, 2025.
St. Peter Parish, Vakpo.
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