Preparation for Sunday mass: Matthew 2:13-15. 19-23


We present here the text that will be read at Sunday mass, the Feast of the Holy Family, and we formulate some questions that might help us prepare to hear the reading.

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13 Now after they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." 14 Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, 15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, "Out of Egypt I have called my son."

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19 When Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, 20 "Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead." 21 Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother, and went to the land of Israel. 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And after being warned in a dream, he went away to the district of Galilee. 23 There he made his home in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, "He will be called a Nazorean."

- When were the other times that Egypt became a refuge for God’s chosen ones and what were the circumstances then?

- Going into Egypt fulfills what was said by the Prophet Hosea in chapter 11. Read the chapter in the Old Testament and see what the text adds to our understanding of the life of the new born child.

- Why is this text in the Gospel of Saint Matthew an important text when we reflect on the family and the Holy Family in particular?

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