The Holy Family You may wonder when the Incarnated Word dwelt amongst us, why He did not appear into the world by Himself? Instead, God sent Angel Gabriel to ask Mary whether she agrees to be the Mother of God and then sent Angel Gabriel again to Joseph to 'persuade' him to stay and be the earthly father of Jesus Christ. Why all these efforts? Do you remember when God first created human, he created a man and a woman, then He said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it..." (Gen 1:28) This is the beginning of human family. We are being created to have the beginning of our human life within a family - a child is to be born into this world with a father and a mother, not with just a mother or just a father (unless circumstances outside human control happened), nor with two fathers or two mothers. Since God desired to be with us, wished to be one with us, thus God's Only Begotten Son took our human flesh to become truly God yet truly human, therefore it is only natural for Jesus Christ to have His Life on earth starting from a family - the Holy Family. “Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfil.” (Matt 5:17) Since Jesus came to this world not only to fulfil but also to save us, since He told us that He is ‘the way, the truth, and the life’, and Simeon described Him as ‘a light for revelation to the nations’, therefore everything He did should be a true example for us to imitate, and that means starting from the family