The Love Family
13 December 2006 - The pastoral text of Fr Reuter is this: Our Lord was happy in the manger, because he was surrounded by the love of Mary, Joseph, the shepherds and the Kings. This Christmas, He will be happy in every Filipino home, where he is surrounded by love. Apt image by Mozul who captions it ‘Joseph, Mary And Baby Jesus’ (flickr.com/). I like the composition, with the light bursting from the shadows, or the shadows being penetrated by the light. The image shows clearly that there is inner peace, inner happiness, the only true peace, the only true happiness. ‘Surrounded by love’ – I take it that love is the interplay of light and shadows, and if we are able to accept that, we are able to exude love, as does this image of the Holy Family.
