2Sam. 7, 4-5.12-14;
Sal 88;
Rm. 4, 13.16-18.22;
Mt 1, 16.18-21.24
'Abraham believed. Supported in hope believed against hope ... so earned justification. " reading the apostle refers to Abraham with faith and hope in this feast of St. Joseph that we are celebrating today.
A party endearing and full of joy to celebrate St. Joseph, the husband of Mary, the putative father (as we say, finding no better word to express it) of Jesus, the Son of God made man, patriarch and patron of the universal Church.
Well We reflect the text of the letter to the Romans speaks of faith and hope of Abraham which is the faith and hope of St. Joseph. Hard and expensive it was to Abraham the trust God put you on track and filled him with promises they could not see fully implemented and even more when asked even the sacrifice of the son of promise. But Abraham believed when it might seem that the hopes were fading. And as the apostle said, that 'earned him the justification' . What's important to keep our faith alive and strong, however many obscurities with which we encounter in life. We can not lose faith or hope it will be what will to the end, what will we find the fullness of God.
is what Joseph lived. He also had his Easter, the way of God for his life he had to know how to discover and see for ourselves totally to God. Joseph had his Passover not devoid of passion and death itself to get to discover the light that would give fullness. Joseph lived his Easter in silence, but encouraged in the way of God for his life because God wanted to tell with the collaboration of Joseph for that step savior of God in Christ Jesus, who was to appear as the son of Joseph, and who would make the final and eternal Easter.
'was good' the Gospel tells us of Joseph as a definition of your life. But in that 'was good' many great things are enclosed the soul of Joseph as their faith and their availability to God, and their capacity for sacrifice in the line of duty as a parent and caretaker of the family which was to be the Holy Family of Nazareth.
When his heart was troubled, and his soul full of doubt kept his kindness and his desire not to hurt anyone ever, confident that in the midst of these dark a day may appear light. And the light came into her life an angel sent by the Lord in their dreams, as one day an angel came also to Mary to announce her divine motherhood was going to take shape in her womb, to announce a collaboration which was José God asked at that Salvation mystery brewing in the womb of Mary.
'Fear not' always announces the angel when it comes from God. He said to Mary, I say now to Joseph, as he would one day women who went to the tomb looking for the crucified and was resurrected. And it is that God comes to us not to fear, but for peace. In our smallness and weakness we feel embarrassed and fearful when it appears the mystery of God in our lives, but the way of God will always be for peace, because the way of God for our lives always be saying what is the love of God.
'Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, for the creature in it is the Holy Spirit' , says the angel of the Lord. 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the strength of the Most High will overshadow you', Gabriel had told Mary. 'The Holy One to be born will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of David his father, 'continued Gabriel explaining to Mary. Now the angel tell Joseph to have to act with the authority of father because 'give birth to a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins' .
father Authority to name but the name comes from the sky to signify the mission to be the son, the Savior, but also as a parent collaboration that Joseph will be given in this work of salvation . Thus we have expressed today prayer 'trusted the first mystery of the salvation of men to the faithful care of Joseph. "
'When Joseph woke up, end telling the Evangelist, did what he had sent the angel of the Lord' . It was the beginning of their collaboration in the work of God. It was the beginning of Passover, of the way of God for his life, a life full of faith and animated by hope. It was a good soul in which God was also enjoying the availability and the greatness of her heart. Always available to God, to sacrifice, for love, to live the Passover.
lot of death, dying to self, must have in your life to see God continue to say yes but the darkness of disappointment and sacrifice in your life continue to appear. Will move from Nazareth to Bethlehem because the whims of a distant emperor wanted to make a census to know the number of the inhabitants of his empire. Darkness for Joseph for the sacrifice he meant to his life and Mary in the state it was. But behind the plan of God was already foretold by the prophets. The Messiah son of David and the city of David would be born. Therefore knowledge of the Scriptures could not Joseph as missing in all pious Jew, made him see light behind those darkness because he discovered God's plan.
Death itself, as Easter road, Joseph was their poverty, but even more extreme poverty that was to be born the son of Mary, for whom there was no room at the inn and would rise as the poorest of the poor to be lying in the straw in a manger. But in his Easter Joseph her life was full of light with the contemplation of the angels sang the glory of God and the shepherds who came to bring offerings telling what the angels had announced.
José Easter Road as the path to God for his life, would be to flee to Egypt to save the life of the child, then his quiet life as in Nazareth where they finally retire. God appears and comes to human life in difficult and dark moments that could be filled with uncertainties and doubts but when it is firm faith and hope always will be illuminated by the light of God. Also in the silent life of Nazareth, with no major or special events, God was present, - and what a wonderful way in the presence of Jesus - and had to continue to have open eyes and heart warmed to see and feel the presence of God.
today is what St. Joseph is teaching us, well we need to learn the lesson. Open your eyes to the way of God for our lives. The true Passover, the final and eternal have in Jesus, the true Passover of God for us in his death and resurrection. But this Easter, this step his way through God we live in day to day life, in which the Lord wants to manifest to us and asks us a partnership, a response of faith, willingness, hope, love.
Look at what is the reality of our everyday life, with good moments, but also with moments of difficulty, problems, suffering, of loneliness, of darkness, but we know enliven our faith to discover how God is with us, we know we put our trust in the Lord, all our hope in it, but those winds of darkness want to turn off the flame of hope, and we will find the light that God has a special for each of us. Our life may seem insignificant because they may not do or confident we have not anything extraordinary, but the silence of our life is also God, so God intervenes.
San Jose is powerful advocate that awaits us in our needs often asking his patronage and protection. Do not stop. But let us ask for our faith and our hope. May his example help us to revive our faith, keep hope alive.
With her glorious intercession before the throne of God - how is not going to be powerful if it is going for her intercession on earth who called him father and grew as a man whose hand! - We reach the gift of faith, the gift of hope, the availability of our heart, that self-sacrifice for the service and to fulfill our responsibilities, and perseverance end on a good death that St. Joseph is also a lawyer and protector.
If the house of Nazareth, where Joseph was the father, was like a seminar where Jesus grew in stature, in wisdom and grace before God and men, let us ask St. Joseph for our seminars where formed and forged in the spirit of future priests, poker will perform the same work of Jesus and also need to grow in wisdom and grace before God and men.
San Jose was also the Passover, the way of God for his life, he could see and use, to learn from San Jose to discover our Passover, God's saving that step for our lives and live with generosity of heart.
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