On True Love and for #WMOF2022

From The St. Joseph Novena

Glory of Home Life

St. Joseph’s great sanctity is accompanied by no great words or deeds. The details of his life remain lost to history. Jesus’ first thirty years belong to the “hidden life” at Nazareth. Joseph teaches us that holiness need not catch the world’s attention. It consists, rather, in being lovingly faithful to the ordinary: family, work, religious observance, the indications of circumstances, and God’s revelation. Work was the daily expression of love in the life of the Family of Nazareth.

Pope John Paul II tells us, “Through his complete self-sacrifice, Joseph expressed his generous love for the Mother of God, and gave Her a husband’s ‘gift of self.’ Even though he decided to draw back a little bit, so as not to interfere with the plan of God which was coming to pass in Mary, Joseph obeyed the explicit command of the angel and took Mary into his home, while respecting the fact that She belonged to God.

“On the other hand, it was his marriage to Mary that Joseph derived his singular dignity and his rights in regard to Jesus. It is certain that the dignity of the Mother of God is so exalted that nothing could be more sublime; yet, because Mary was united to Joseph by the bond of marriage, there can be no doubt that Joseph approached, as no other person ever could, the eminent dignity whereby the Mother of God towers above all creatures.

Since marriage is the highest degree of association and friendship, involving by its very nature a communion of goods, it follows that God, by giving Joseph to the Virgin, did not give him to Her only as a companion for life, a witness of Her and protector of Her honor; He also gave Joseph to Mary in order that he might share, through the marriage pact, in Her own sublime greatness.”

Dear Father St. Joseph, never cease recommending me, and the intention of this novena, to your Divine Son and your most Holy Spouse, Who are ever ready to grant our requests. ++

~31 Day Novena to St. Joseph

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