Saint Joseph for non-believers and especially for believers must be a source of inspiration for a full life.
José realizes that María his wife is pregnant. José, who loved María so much, decides to disown her in secret.
Joseph in a dream receives the message from the angel of the Lord and tells him that it is the work of the Holy Spirit and therefore he must receive Mary in his home.
How many times do we rush into our decisions and we don’t have calm to reflect and give opportunities to clarify things.
Joseph is obedient and a just man and when Emperor Augustus orders all his subjects to be registered to find out how many belong to his Empire, he obeys. Joseph and Mary have to do it in Bethlehem because they are from the house of David. There we already know that there was no posada and Maria’s time of delivery arrived and they had to go to take refuge in a cattle stable.
Saint Joseph did not reveal himself saying how the Son of God had consented to his mother giving birth in a stable. Herod learns of the birth of the Messiah through some astrologers from the East, the Magi, who go to Herod’s palace to ask where the king of the Jews was born.
Joseph has to flee to Egypt because Herod wants to kill the Child.
José, María and the Child run to cross the border to save the child God.
Joseph in Egypt experiences a start over, in Nazareth he was comfortable and his neighbors knew him and had his reputation.
In Egypt he had to start over and earn the livelihood of the family with his own hands.
Upon Herod’s death he returned to his land, his son Archelaus had inherited his kingdom, Joseph decides to go to Nazareth where the child God spent his entire life until he began his public life at the age of thirty. Saint Joseph is the symbol of the worker who, although tired, continued in his task and taught his Son God the carpenter’s trade.
Many times we have the experience of abandoning the task either because we are tired or because the routine suffocates us. How important it is to continue on task so that many important things are possible.
The Lord’s call to the Father’s house will come to all of us.
The time came for Saint Joseph and what a pleasant death, he died in the arms of Saint Mary and her Son God.
We ask Saint Joseph, patron saint of the good death, to help us die in peace with ourselves and with others and with the love of our loved ones.
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