Tenets of Parenting (HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 16TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR II (SAINTS JOACHIM AND ANNE JULY 26 2024
HOMILY FOR FRIDAY OF THE 16TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR II (STS. JOACHIM AND ANNE JULY 26 2024 Jer.3:14-17; Jer.31; Matthew 3:18-23 Tenets of Parenting Today, we celebrate the memorial of Sts. Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Clearly no reference is made to them in the scripture. But that does not mean that they are unimportant; rather it goes to show that everything is not in the Bible. The bible is not a historical book but an account of God’s gradual revelation of himself and man’s growing attempts to behold this revelation. However, Jesus says that it is from the fruits that a tree is known. We celebrate this couple for their obvious good work in training a child that God found worthy of being His mother. It is not the case that it was the training that they gave the Blessed Virgin Mary that qualified her to be the mother of God; rather, by bringing her up in uprightness, they cooperated with the grace of God in her life. The submissiveness of Mary to the