This excerpt was so inspiring!! Upon hearing it I was very moved by the great love St Joseph had for the Blessed Virgin Mary and his delight at becoming a father!! The resignation of both of them in their journey to Bethlehem is truly remarkable!! I loved all your references to scripture and from that author that you mentioned!! The music was really lovely in the background I really enjoyed that!! You really do these videos very well your voice is steady and reverent as you speak!! Thank you so much for all your efforts, Joe!!
Thank you for your continued encouragement - I really appreciate it. Compiling this book has not only given me a greater appreciation for St Joseph, but also for Our Lord and Our Lady. 🙏
Though not by the means of begetting, Great St. Joseph is indeed the true human father of Jesus. The late Pope St. John Paul II once commented on this in his Redemptoris Custos. “The Church deeply venerates this Family, and proposes it as the model of all families. Inserted directly in the mystery of the Incarnation, the Family of Nazareth has its own special mystery. And in this mystery, as in the Incarnation, one finds a true fatherhood: the human form of the family of the Son of God, a true human family, formed by the divine mystery. In this family, Joseph is the father: his fatherhood is not one that derives from begetting offspring; but neither is it an "apparent" or merely "substitute" fatherhood. Rather, it is one that fully shares in authentic human fatherhood and the mission of a father in the family. This is a consequence of the hypostatic union: humanity taken up into the unity of the Divine Person of the Word-Son, Jesus Christ. Together with human nature, all that is human, and especially the family - as the first dimension of man's existence in the world - is also taken up in Christ. Within this context, Joseph's human fatherhood was also "taken up" in the mystery of Christ's Incarnation.” Thus not only Virgin Mary, but also St. Joseph constituted to the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word Jesus.
This excerpt was so inspiring!!
Upon hearing it I was very moved by the great love St Joseph had for the Blessed Virgin Mary and his delight at becoming a father!! The resignation of both of them in their journey to Bethlehem is truly remarkable!! I loved all your references to scripture and from that author that you mentioned!!
The music was really lovely in the background I really enjoyed that!!
You really do these videos very well your voice is steady and reverent as you speak!!
Thank you so much for all your efforts, Joe!!
Thank you for your continued encouragement - I really appreciate it. Compiling this book has not only given me a greater appreciation for St Joseph, but also for Our Lord and Our Lady. 🙏
Though not by the means of begetting, Great St. Joseph is indeed the true human father of Jesus. The late Pope St. John Paul II once commented on this in his Redemptoris Custos.
“The Church deeply venerates this Family, and proposes it as the model of all families. Inserted directly in the mystery of the Incarnation, the Family of Nazareth has its own special mystery. And in this mystery, as in the Incarnation, one finds a true fatherhood: the human form of the family of the Son of God, a true human family, formed by the divine mystery. In this family, Joseph is the father: his fatherhood is not one that derives from begetting offspring; but neither is it an "apparent" or merely "substitute" fatherhood. Rather, it is one that fully shares in authentic human fatherhood and the mission of a father in the family. This is a consequence of the hypostatic union: humanity taken up into the unity of the Divine Person of the Word-Son, Jesus Christ. Together with human nature, all that is human, and especially the family - as the first dimension of man's existence in the world - is also taken up in Christ. Within this context, Joseph's human fatherhood was also "taken up" in the mystery of Christ's Incarnation.”
Thus not only Virgin Mary, but also St. Joseph constituted to the mystery of the Incarnation of the Word Jesus.