Christmas Time

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

Sunday, December 27, 2026

Today’s verse

About today

When Christmas falls on a weekday, the Sunday within the octave is the feast of the Holy Family. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph lived the hidden years of obedience, work, and flight. The Church sets this household before every household, not as a plaster model, but as a communion in which the Son of God was subject to Mary and Joseph in Nazareth. Ask today for patience in ordinary rooms, and for a family life that can carry the Word in weakness.

Original – Prayer on Fire.

Scripture

Office of Readings

1 John 1:1–4

He who was from the beginning, whom we have heard, whom we have seen with our eyes, upon whom we have gazed, and whom our hands have certainly touched: He is the Word of Life. And that Life has been made manifest. And we have seen, and we testify, and we announce to you: the Eternal Life, who was with the Father, and who appeared to us. He whom we have seen and heard, we announce to you, so that you, too, may have fellowship with us, and so that our fellowship may be with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And this we write to you, so that you may rejoice, and so that your joy may be full.

Text: Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV) · Office of Readings

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