The hidden life at Nazareth allows everyone to enter into fellowship with Jesus by the most ordinary events of daily life:
The home of Nazareth is the school where we begin to understand the life of Jesus – the school of the Gospel.
- First, then, a lesson of silence. May esteem for silence, that admirable and indispensable condition of mind, revive in us. . .
- A lesson on family life. May Nazareth teach us what family life is, its communion of love, its austere and simple beauty, and its sacred and inviolable character…
- A lesson of work. Nazareth, home of the “Carpenter’s Son”, in you I would choose to understand and proclaim the severe and redeeming law of human work.
–Catechism of the Catholic Church, 533