Christmas is a great opportunity for all families to imitate the Holy Family, and so proposes the Prelate of Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarria Rodriguez to H2onews: "The Christmas season is already an invitation to sanctify ourselves in family life and I would suggest putting the nativity in your home so as to look to Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Jesus is perfect Love who became man to bring love from heaven to earth; He is concerned for all mankind and can teach us to love God and love all creatures, and so we cannot forget that both Mary and Joseph showed Jesus to the shepherds, to kings and to all people without distinction of any kind. They became instruments because of their docility and love of God, and for their joy that the Trinity would use them to allow the people of this world to know the Incarnate God" . Monsignor Echevarria Rodriguez adds that one way to live closer to Jesus' birth this Christmas is to love all, and quotes the founder of Opus Dei, St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer. "I think that an effort we have to make is to love one's own family, to love our friends. To love all friends as Christ would want is one of the things that St. Josemaría often said: "I want to love people and to treat them as I would Christ ". www.opusdei.org
