A Year With the Holy Family at St Pancras

As part of the celebrations of the Holy Year, the parish of St Pancras Parish embarked on a moving spiritual journey centred on a Posada statue of the Holy Family.

At the beginning of the Holy Year in 2024, the parish was consecrated to the Holy Family and the statue was blessed on the Feast of the Holy Family. From that moment, the statue began a year-long pilgrimage around the parish, being welcomed into a different Catholic household each week. Over the course of the year, fifty-two households, including families, couples and people living alone, opened their doors to the Holy Family.

In each home, those hosting the statue prayed a specially chosen prayer, asking for God’s blessing on their own household and on all the Catholic homes of the parish. Many parishioners spoke of how this simple but powerful act of welcome helped to deepen prayer within the home and strengthened bonds across the parish community.

The first household to host the statue was that of Rosa Patten and her family. Fittingly, the final week of the Holy Year saw the statue hosted by her twin sister, Lisa de Pasquale. On the Feast of the Holy Family in 2025, the statue was returned to St Pancras, where the parish gathered once more to reaffirm its consecration to the Holy Family.

The Posada journey proved to be a quiet but profound sign of faith lived out in daily life, reminding parishioners that the home is a place of prayer, welcome and God’s abiding presence.

Picture: Rosa Patten (left) and her twin sister Lisa de Pasquale with the Holy Family statue that travelled to 52 homes during the Holy Year.

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