Many years ago when I was studying in Rome I was going to a talk in the Gregorian Univeristy about the family. One of the speakers at the conference was St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta. If you’ve been to Rome, you know that the traffic is chaotic at the best of times. I was travelling in a bus with my colleagues and right in the middle of Rome, when we were stopped at a traffic lights, I looked out the window and I saw this small cinquecento car and mother Theresa was in the car, with some of the members of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, her congregation. To be honest with yoy it was quiet an experience to see a saint in real life.  Her last words at the conference were: ‘if you want to do something for world peace, go home and love your family.’  Today is the festday of the Holy Family and we are invited to contemplate Joseph the kind  and hard working father,  Mary the loving mother,  and Jesus the little boy, who wants to grow up in a normal family, to have a father and a mother; in this way he really becomes one of us and can really understand us. In our joys and in our sorrows he is a member of every family. Today we are invited to ask ourselves:  what is my role in my family; am I a good listener; am I someone who solves problems or am I someone who makes problems. Is there someone in my family who needs more affection and attention than I am giving; what can I do to help this person. At this moment there are many places in the world where there is war.  Many people are suffering and dying, and the images of parents holding their dead and wounded children are heart wrenching. We are frustrated by or own helplessness to do something and to help. As a start we can remembr St. Theresa words, if you want peace in the world go home and love your family, especially the one who is most difficult to love.  And as we said at the beginning, if we want to make the world a better place, remember the words of St. Theresa of Calcutta: ‘Lets go home and love our families’