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Holy Families

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Candles lit

Season’s days are counted

It’s easy, given the

Days, to think on

Family

The sacred family

The holy family

Set apart

Unusually constructed

Older husband

So it’s said

Check the old windows

His hair is thinning

Brown to gray

She in blue and white

Meaning peace

And youth

How often

That may happen

And the child

Born to the mother

Not the father

Though he will be the

Father as that

Matters day to day (and

it matters greatly)

A boy

Who grows

Then moves apart

To heal

And to teach

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This is the family

With the child

Warranting visits from

Shepherds

And from magi

With the calls of angels

Splitting the sky into

Pieces of cosmos

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A family

Spirit-set

And in that way

Each family is

A holy family

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Loretto Motherhouse (Nerinx, Kentucky) – Seven Dolors stations, Station 2 – Flight into Egypt

By Nheyob – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34985128

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