The Family That Fled | Feast of the Holy Family | Catholic Daily Readings & Reflection |Dec 28, 2025

Join us for today's Catholic Mass Readings, featuring the daily Mass readings from the Holy Bible and a Catholic reflection. Find peace and enhance your faith with daily Scripture. Experience the presence of Jesus Christ in the Gospel and find peace in a special rendition of the Psalm created for today's liturgy from the USCCB.Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph | December 28, 2025Three days after we celebrated his birth, we watch them run for their lives.Joseph had another dream. Get up. Take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt. Herod is going to search for the child to destroy him. No explanation. No timeline. Just go. Now. Tonight.Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt. By night. Not in the morning when it would be easier. In the darkness, immediately, without hesitation.This is the Holy Family. Not a greeting card image. A young mother clutching her newborn on a donkey in the dark. A father walking through hostile territory. Refugees before the child could walk.The Holy Family was a refugee family. Jesus was an immigrant child. Mary knew what it meant to hold her baby and wonder if they would survive the night. Joseph knew what it meant to uproot everything because the alternative was unthinkable.Whatever your family looks like, it is not disqualified from holiness. The Holy Family did not match the Christmas card picture either. They were poor and displaced and in danger. And they were holy because they said yes to God and stayed faithful through the fear.📖 ReadingsSirach 3:2-6, 12-14Psalm 128Colossians 3: 12-21Matthew 2: 13-15, 19-23⏱️ Timeline00:00 Introduction00:15 Reading I - Sirach 3:2-6,12-1401:03 Psalm Response - Psalm 12804:35 Reading II - Colossians 3: 12-2105:47 Gospel - Matthew 2: 13-15,19-2307:04 Reflection - The Family That Fled in the Night🎧 Prefer to listen on the go? The Christus Dominus Daily Bread podcast is now available: Video Podcast: Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/7H4YZ5ZIq4rVVF3670Av3t YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTPJP7WEcCSTIO2N4N_AoIsxmzIYRYiSt Audio Podcast: Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/christus-dominus-daily-bread/id1826298886#CatholicDailyReadings #CatholicMass #HolyFamily #FlightToEgypt #JesusMaryJoseph #CatholicReflection