God gave you a heart filled with heavenly, supernatural love - a love far deeper and more powerful than any natural father’s love could be. You served the Divine Child with a singular love. Whatever a human son owes to a human father for all the benefits of his up-bringing and support, Jesus owed to you, because you were to Him a foster-father, teacher, and protector. Then on your arms the Child returned to Nazareth to be nourished and provided for during many years by the labor of your hands. Your fatherly love carried Him through the desert into Egypt until all enemies were removed. It was that fatherly love which was the only refuge that received and protected the Divine Child. When Herod sought the Child to put Him to death, the Heavenly Father sent an angel but only as a messenger, giving orders for the flight the rest He left entirely in your hands.

You were truly the saint of the holy childhood of Jesus - the living created providence which watched over the Christ-Child. With the toil of your hands you were obliged to offer protection to the Divine Child, to procure for Him food, clothing, and a home. For this purpose the Heavenly Father gave you a genuine heart of a father - a heart full of love and self-sacrifice. In a more direct manner you shared in the support, upbringing, and protection of the Divine Child as His foster-father. You made the virginal marriage possible, and this was a part of God’s plan, foreseen, willed, and decreed from all eternity. You had a part in this mystery in an indirect manner, by fulfilling the condition necessary for the Incarnation - the protection of Mary’s virginity before and during your married life with her. Mary alone was directly connected with the fulfillment of the mystery, in that she gave her consent to Christ’s conception and allowed the Holy Spirit to form the sacred humanity of Jesus from her blood. Saint Joseph, you were privileged to share in the mystery of the Incarnation as the foster-father of Jesus. CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINKS FOR THE CORRESPONDING DAYS.ĭay Three: Man Chosen By The Blessed Trinity

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