Opus Dei

In this scene of the finding of Jesus in the Temple, Christ prepares his Mother for the mystery of the Redemption.

"They were months of quiet work and hardship, spent with nostalgia for their homeland, but also with the joy of seeing Jesus growing up healthy and strong, far from the danger they had left behind."

"In this Family, love for God and neighbor centered on loving attention to Jesus, the Father’s eternal Word, who learned how to talk with human words and to love with the heart of a man."

The scene of the "Pietà," with the dead body of Christ resting in Mary’s arms, has often moved Christian hearts.

The thirteenth chapter in the Life of Mary looks at the many years spent by the Holy Family in Nazareth, years marked by daily work, prayer and joyful family life.

"The eternal Son of God comes into the world in a place meant for animals. And his Mother has to offer him, as his first crib, a narrow manger."

After Jesus ascended to heaven, the Apostles waited in the Holy City for the sending of the promised Consoler, united around Mary.

Christ died for our sins, to free us from them and redeem us from the slavery that sin introduced into mankind’s life.

Priests receive from God the power to forgive sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

“Acting is morally good when the choices of freedom are in conformity with man’s true good and thus express the voluntary ordering of the person towards our ultimate end: God himself.”