At the beginning of the civil New Year, we turn to Mary, Our Mother. The 8th day of a child’s birth was for the Jews the time of its insertion into the life of the family and therefore to the network of relationships to which the family is inserted. “Jesus” is now legally, “son of Joseph, of the house of David, of the tribe of Judah, son of Jacob — an Israelite. But we could not forget that the name given to Jesus was the name given by God the Father through the angel Gabriel — a name made known to Mary (Luke) and to Joseph (Matthew) even before the infant was conceived. Joseph is the legal father, but Mary is the real mother, as Matthew himself underlines in his genealogy.

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At the beginning of the civil New Year, we turn to Mary, Our Mother. The 8th day of a child’s birth was for the Jews the time of its insertion into the life of the family and therefore to the network of relationships to which the family is inserted. “Jesus” is now legally, “son of Joseph, of the house of David, of the tribe of Judah, son of Jacob — an Israelite. But we could not forget that the name given to Jesus was the name given by God the Father through the angel Gabriel — a name made known to Mary (Luke) and to Joseph (Matthew) even before the infant was conceived. Joseph is the legal father, but Mary is the real mother, as Matthew himself underlines in his genealogy.

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