This year the Feast of the Holy Family coincides with New Year’s Eve. Pope Francis reminds us of this in his prayer for the day:
“My eyes have seen your salvation” (Lk 2:22-40) – thus sings Simeon before the Holy Family. Give me the grace to remember this year that is now ending under your light. May I have the voice to sing your praise. I ask your forgiveness for the times I have failed to love. In the presence of the Holy Family of Nazareth, I offer the works of this day for people with disabilities, so that they may be the centre of society’s attention.
Look for a quiet place. Take advantage of this time to open your heart to the year ahead. “Dear brothers and sisters, I believe that the recovery of goodness as a virtue can greatly help to improve life in families, communities and cities. As we face the New Year, I would like to wish us all to grow in this virtue: kindness. Experience teaches that, if it becomes a way of life, it can create a healthy coexistence, it can humanize social relations, dissolving aggressiveness and indifference” (Pope Francis). (Team Portugal)
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