Rev. Fr. Isidro Satou III, CSsR Cebu City, DH
Go to Joseph! Have recourse with special confidence to St. Joseph, for his protection is most powerful, as he is the patron of the universal Church.
- Bl. Pius IX
The Gospel reading for tomorrow, the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Husband of Mary, is Mt 1:16,18-21,24a, which begins excerpts from The Birth of Jesus with a verse from The Genealogy of Jesus. In the preconciliar form of the Mass, this is a Class I feast day; the Gospel reading for is Mt 1:18-21.
St. Joseph is the Husband of Mary, the Foster Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Patron Saint of the Universal Church. In his humility he raised the Christ Child, bringing Him up until he passed on. Such was the humility he embraced in this task that in the words of St. Paul VI (feast day: May 29th), "This is the secret of Saint Joseph's greatness, which is well in accord with his humility: having made his life a service, a sacrifice, to the mystery of the Incarnation and to the redemptive mission that is joined to it; having used the legal authority, which belonged to him over the holy family, to make it a total gift of himself, of his life, of his work; having converted his human vocation to domestic love into the superhuman oblation of himself, of his heart and of every capacity, in the love placed at the service of the Messiah germinated in his house, his nominal son and son of David, but in reality, son of Mary and son of God."
¡Viva Señor San Jose!
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