Feast of the Holy Family

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Follow God’s commandments to honor father and mother.

Show Christian love for our spouses and honor and obey each other.

Try not to discourage ourchildren

Live the call as a Christian parent providing children physical, emotional and spiritual needs

Help them grow in faith and love for God.

Teaching our children how to act as parents.

Family is love in action. When we show our children the love we have for them and for God, we teach them how to love others.

Family is God’s gift to us. Our gift in return is to strive to follow the footsteps of Joseph and Mary as we parent our children each day.

 

An English Lullaby for the Feast of the Holy Innocents

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The Coventry Carol

This beautiful English lullaby carol originated in the Coventry Corpus Christi Mystery Plays performed in the 15th century. In a play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, the women of Bethlehem sing this song just before Herod’s soldiers come to slaughter their children. It tells the story of the murder of the Holy Innocents, and is sung on December 28, the feast of those tiny martyrs.

Lully, Lullay, thou little tiny child.
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Lullay thou little tiny child
Bye, bye, lully, lullay

O sisters, too, how may we do,
For to preserve this day;
This poor Youngling for whom we sing
Bye, bye lully, lullay

Herod the King, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day;
His men of might, in his own sight,
All young children to slay.

Then woe is me, poor child, for thee,
And ever mourn and say;
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
Bye, bye lully, lullay.