Feast of the Holy Family – December 27, 2015

MASS INTENTIONS Word for Life William Basye† “We know what true, authentic love looks like. It looks like the man on the Cross. This deep, pure love that motivated Jesus to offer his life for ours, is the love that will answer the FLOWERS William Basye from Pamela & Steve Tornatore longing in our hearts, if we let it.

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history.

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Feast of the Holy Family – December 27, 2015

MASS INTENTIONS Word for Life William Basye† “We know what true, authentic love looks like. It looks like the man on the Cross. This deep, pure love that motivated Jesus to offer his life for ours, is the love that will answer the FLOWERS William Basye from Pamela & Steve Tornatore longing in our hearts, if we let it.

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Joseph, silent, obedient to dreams and angels when his choices had





become unbearable, modeled the fidelity and determination Jesus 




showed as an adult. Joseph, entrusted with a woman he could not 

possess and a child who was not his, is the provider and protector of


 


all our families, a good man who emptied himself into salvation  

history.