The Holy Family in Nazareth, in Joseph’s workshop

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph spent thirty years doing ordinary tasks in the home of Nazareth to teach us the sanctifying value of ordinary things. In this meditation we pray about how we too can find God in our day-to-day activities. We use texts of St Josemaria Escriva, the Second Vatican Council and St John Paul II to consider how:

• The Holy Family is our model
• We can find God not only in church and in our prayers, but in everything we do
• St John Paul II called St Josemaria “the patron saint of ordinary life”
• There are various means we can use to find God in our daily activities