MATTHEW 1:16 (2026)

MATTHEW 1:16

Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and from her came Jesus, who is called the Christ—the Messiah.

---- my own,

In heaven, from eternity to eternity, we are family: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. On earth, we were family—Joseph, Mary, and I. In heaven now we are family, but this time it is Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Mary, Joseph, and all who are baptized and grafted into My Body, in the Church I founded—the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. It is here in My Body that family is most concretely and profoundly visible. It is now both spiritual and tangible. 

While earthly families are temporal and each family member ends their physical life on earth and unites with the Father, with Me, and with the Spirit—together with My Mother, St. Joseph, and all the saints who have gone before you—the family will remain as the most grace-filled and Spirit-filled unit wherein God in the Trinity of Persons and God in the human family of Mary and Joseph is alive and visible. This is why the state of the family is so important. You cannot take it lightly. 

Every member of the family must model himself or herself on the family of Nazareth and the life of each of its members. The father and husband must model his life on that of Joseph, as provider, protector, and one ready to lay down his life—spending himself as the one whose love upholds the dignity of each of its members: his wife and his children. The mother must model herself on Mary as wife and mother, caregiver and nurturer. It is her gentleness, kindness, understanding, and her ability and willingness to ensure that both her husband and children look to her to knit their family together in love. 

Each member of the family offers love, respect, obedience, and unconditional love. They form a unit against any hostile forces that may come to attack it. The children must be raised in the fear of the Lord as both father and mother offer their children the example and model of how to live in the fear of the Lord, in the grace of God, and to carry out that life of God in their home and the Church from one generation to the next. 

Keep your gaze fixed on the family of Nazareth and on the family in heaven, and draw strength and life from the grace of the Holy Spirit, who pours Himself out on both the Church, the family, and each of its members through the worthy reception of the Sacraments I instituted. Without the frequent use of the Sacraments I instituted, the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, and Reconciliation, ---- my own, the family will be open to demonic attack, and to the enemies of goodness, beauty, and truth in the world, and they will weaken the ties that bind them and perish. 

So continue to pray and to do all that is necessary on your part. In the end, as I have assured you, the reign of evil will end, and the love of God poured out by the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit will be victorious. Have faith. All is well because God is good.