Today is the feast day of St. Joseph the foster Father of Jesus and the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary! How great a faith he possessed for God to grant unto his care His precious Son.
God graced me to know his role for our salvation, without his yes, Mother Mary could have been stoned to death with the infant Jesus inside her womb, but his yes, hindered its occurrence.
How hard it must have been for Him, its always in his dreams the Angel appeared, and how is that, His response is always “yes”, always obedient to God.
Can you imagine what relationship St. Joseph has for our Father? If it were you, will you follow?
I'm not sure if I will, I mean there are this things in life at present Im having hard time following, how much more to appear in my dream and take Mary who is pregnant and not my child she’s having, appeared again and told Him to go to Bethlehem, again and said go to Egypt, a foreign place for Him then again instructing Him to go to Nazareth.
If it were me, I think I probably go back to sleep, or I could easily say its just an illusion. But He, in the middle of his sleep, in the cold night, nothing of any sort of luxury, no means but still goes on, always emptying Himself before our God, full of confidence that God provides.
I wonder if He ever questioned Gods divine providence, like what I used to do and still does at times. I mean his human like us but his faith, St. Joseph tells us how its done, in silence and obedience.
May be its hard for you to relate with me, but we have one thing in common “the feeling of inadequacy”, as for me, I feel so inadequate of almost everything, even writing reflections, I am just an ordinary lay Catholic, not a philosopher nor a theologian. But still writes anyway.
St. Joseph knows very well our struggle. With his status and knowing what the Blessed Virgin carries, and seeing it in a manger? For a man of virtue like Him, I’m assuming that He wants to give them a good place to live in, and I'm assuming again its not in a manger he hoped.
But there he was with the Lord, raising His Lord/Son as a carpenter, providing for them. You see, I'm almost weeping of how great a Man St. Joseph is, he goes on, marches on, with all that He has to serve God.
How many of us excused ourselves in serving God, but see this Man right here gives all he has, in the way that he knows how.
If God, creator of all graced Him to take care of His Son, why not us, entrust ourselves in His help and intercession.
May we start today to acknowledge St. Josephs obedience and huge part in our salvation. May we ask Him to pray for us that He pleads His foster Son Jesus who at the same time his God, to hear our prayers and partake us portions of the graces God has bestowed upon Him.
St. Joseph may you please intercede for us, please ask God the Father that He may grace us faith like yours and that we might not not only be able to say thank you in prayer but meet you face to face there up in heaven. Amen
P.S. photo not mine
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May Christ the King, reign in every soul!
-Shalom❤️
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