Holy Family 2023: Not Understanding but Believing

Today's first and second readings for the Feast of the Holy Family have to do with the person of Abraham, called the "Father of our Faith". God called Abraham to leave his ancestral home and go to the place God had prepared for him. Abraham obediently left but without knowing where he was to go! But he believed that the One asking him to go was trustworthy, and so he went. When God told Abraham that his wife Sarah would conceive and bear a son in her old age, Abraham did not understand how this was possible, yet he believed God. He trusted, even when God told him to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice. Abraham is the Father of Faith because he believed God, even though he didn't understand. Do we not see the same faith in Mary and Joseph? Is not God calling us to believe and  trust Him, even when we do not understand?

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