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What helps me most when I picture to myself the interior of the Holy Family is to think of a quite ordinary life.

The Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph knew well that Jesus was God, but wondrous things were nevertheless hidden from them and like us they lived by faith. Have you not noticed what is said in the sacred text: "And they understood not the word that He spoke unto them," and these other words no less mysterious: "His father and mother were wondering at those things which were spoken concerning Him?" Does not this imply that they heard of something