Holy Family

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As Holy Family Christianity sees Jesus of Nazareth with his mother Maria and his foster father, St.. Joseph .

Raffael : Holy Family with the hll. Elisabeth and John the Baptist, 1507
Nativity scene "House Nazareth" (monastery forest, end of 19th century)
The Holy Family at work, apse window, St. Josef Bolzum
Silhouette by Nanna Eicke - Holy Family in Marie Feesche : Himmelsglanz, 1931, Hanover, subsequent edition

Representations

Representations from the Christmas story ( birth of Christ , Adoration of the Shepherds , Adoration of the Wise Men from the East, Flight to Egypt ), as found in the visual arts of the West or in Christmas cribs , almost always contain a representation of the Holy Family. However, the picture motif Holy Family is generally understood to be a representation of the same on the flight to Egypt or in everyday life. The motif of the family's home environment, often equipped with a carpenter's workshop and spinning wheel, is also known as the Nazareth house.

The holy walk is a type of image of the Catholic Counter-Reformation , which originated in the early 17th century and shows the Holy Family walking ("walking"), whereby Jesus as a child is mostly depicted between Mary and Joseph; often it is led by the hand by them. This devotional image symbolizes walking on the path of life and is intended to admonish obedience and a Christian lifestyle.

In many cases, Mary's mother Anna , Mary's cousin Elisabeth and the Johannesknabe are represented with the Holy Family . Anna selbdritt is a representation of Anna with Maria and the baby Jesus . At the beginning of the 15th century the holy clan emerged as an image type.

liturgy

In the Catholic tradition, the worship of the Holy Family began in modern times. It has been increasingly evident since the 17th century and took off in the 19th century - especially from Canada - with the establishment of the Brotherhood of the Holy Family in Liège in 1844 and the Christian Family Association (1861). "One saw in the 30 years of life of Jesus in the Holy Family a meaningful mystery and a helpful example for the often endangered family life." The veneration was by Pope Leo XIII. especially encouraged, possibly also to counteract the disintegration of the Christian family image. In 1893 he included the festival of ideas of the Holy Family, which had previously only been celebrated in individual dioceses and religious orders, in the general Roman calendar , combined it with the consecration of the domestic family to Jesus, Mary and Joseph and placed it on the third Sunday after the feast of the apparition of the Lord .

As part of a reform of the liturgical calendar, Pope Pius X initially suspended the feast of the Holy Family. With a strong increase in the number of saints' feasts, the liturgy of the Sundays in the Liturgy of the Hours and Holy Mass has often been supplanted. Pius X endeavored to make the Sundays more prominent again; simple Sundays took precedence over simple feasts liturgically, and all feasts that were fixed on a Sunday were moved to a specific date, with the exception of the Feast of the Name of Jesus and the Feast of the Holy Trinity . Pope Benedict XV reintroduced the feast of the Holy Family in 1921 and placed it on the first Sunday after the apparition of the Lord ( Missal of 1920).

Since the liturgical reform in 1969, it has been celebrated on Sunday in the octave of Christmas , while the first Sunday after Epiphany is now dedicated to the baptism of Jesus . Gospel of the day is either the flight to Egypt ( Mt 2.13  EU , reading year A), the presentation of Jesus in the temple ( Lk 2.21  EU , reading year B) or the family pilgrimage to Passover to Jerusalem with the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple ( Lk 2.41  EU , reading year C). If no Sunday falls between Christmas and New Year, the feast of the Holy Family is celebrated on December 30th. If Sunday falls on December 26th, the feast of St. Stephen . If Sunday falls on December 28th, it supersedes the festival of the Innocent Children .

Patronage

Churches

see Holy Family Church

Religious orders

Several religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church founded in the 19th century placed themselves under the patronage of the Holy Family:

See also

Others

Web links

Commons : Holy Family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : House of Nazareth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Adam : Holy Family . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 4 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, Sp. 1277 .
  2. ↑ Hansjörg Auf der Maur : Celebrating in the rhythm of time I. Men's festivals in the week and year. Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0788-4 ( Church service. Handbook of liturgical science , edited by Hans Bernhard Meyer , Part 5), p. 164.
  3. ↑ “According to the ancient practice of the Church, the Sunday offices are not to be easily ignored. Therefore no feast, not even a feast of the Lord, should in future be set for Sunday. However, because of its peculiar nature, Sunday, which falls between January 1st and 5th, is excluded. We determine this on the day of commemoration of the most holy name of Jesus because of its relation to the mystery of circumcision. - However, all festivals that were previously held on Sunday, with the exception of the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, should be moved to a different day forever. "(Pope Pius X .: Motu proprio" Abhinc duos annos " , October 23, 1913 [ 1] ); see. Hansjörg Auf der Maur : Festivals and Remembrance Days of the Saints. In: ders .: Celebrating in the rhythm of time II / 1. Regensburg 1994, ISBN 3-7917-0884-8 ( Church service. Handbook of liturgical science , edited by Hans Bernhard Meyer , Part 6.1), p. 160, and Pius X .: Apostolic Constitution "Divino afflatu" on the new distribution of the psaltery in the Roman breviary. (November 1, 1911) [2] .
  4. ↑ Peter Walter : Some approaches to the subject of “family” from a theological-historical perspective. , In: Ders .: Syngrammata. Collected writings on systematic theology. Herder Freiburg i. Br. 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-31285-4 , p. 76 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ Adolf Adam: Celebrating the church year: its history and its meaning after the renewal of the liturgy. Herder, Freiburg [a. a.] 1980, ISBN 3-451-18648-9 , p. 121; Holy Family in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
  6. ^ Adolf Adam: Celebrating the church year: its history and its meaning after the renewal of the liturgy. Herder, Freiburg [a. a.] 1980, ISBN 3-451-18648-9 , p. 121; Holy Family in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints