Nazareth The Holy Family refers to the family formed by Jesus of Nazareth and his parents, Mary and Joseph and is always given as a model to Catholic families. Dom Guéranger (a French Benedictine monk and [...] Holy Family, saying: “The holy house of Nazareth is the perfect model of the Christian home. There, Joseph exerted calm and serene authority, because he knew that by doing so he was doing the will of God [...] servant, of a subject and an instrument. Mary, as it befits a wife, remained modestly submitted to Joseph; and in turn, as she adored the Child over whom she had authority, she naturally told Jesus what
where she told the story of the Holy Family’s arrival at night, shortly before the birth of her Son: "Joseph made some light when I came in. It was only then, when I got off the donkey that I felt how tired [...] . An ox greeted us; I went to him to feel a little warmth and lean against the hay. Where I was, Joseph stretched out some hay to make me a bed, and dried it for me and for you, my son, with the flame [...] other by the hand, like two brothers lost in the darkness of the night, we ate bread and cheese, then Joseph went there to stoke the fire, and took off his cloak to close the opening. In reality, he placed
on Jesus’ words after Mary and Joseph found Him in the Temple of Jerusalem, that "He had to be in His Father's house" (cf. Lk 2:49), and says that neither Mary nor Joseph "understood this word." Faith [...] it also has an obscure side, the "night of the soul" evoked by St John of the Cross. Father Marie-Joseph Lagrange dedicated his life to the translation and commentary of the Bible, recognizing that "the
immensity of the firmament, we saw, next to the sun, Saint Joseph with the Child Jesus and Our Lady, dressed in white with a blue mantle. Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus seemed to bless the world, with the [...] idea that it was Our Lady of Sorrows. Our Lord seemed to bless the world in the same way as Saint Joseph. This apparition disappeared and it seemed to me that I still saw Our Lady under the aspect of Our
wheatfields and the night, As when he was once a young boy ant it began to get too dark for reading, Joseph enters with a deep sight into conversation with God. He preferred Wisdom and she had been brought [...] Again he is in Paradise with Eve ! The face which all men need turns with love and submission toward Joseph. It is no longer the same prayer and no longer the ancient waiting since he has felt Like an arm [...] profound and innocent being. It is no longer bare Faith in the night, it is love explaining and working. Joseph is with Mary and Mary is with the Father. Paul Claudel (1858-1955) French playwright, poet, essayist
Cambrai (France) They knew how to obey Let us discover one of the crucial sources of unity in Mary and Joseph’s marriage: both lived the obedience of the faith which opened for them broader perspectives and helped [...] life before God is a source of unity. Later, when the Child stayed behind in Jerusalem, Mary and Joseph, who were terribly worried, did not fall for the common temptation of couples, of blaming the other [...] makes one grow. One who knows how to obey will know how to command. And as we have seen, Mary and Joseph knew how to obey. Pablo Largo Dominguez Excerpt from María, microcosmos de relaciones , Ephemerides
not his mother named Mary and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Are not his sisters all with us?”). Now, as a Catholic, I am told that Joseph was significantly older than Mary, was a widower [...] virgin until after the birth of Jesus, but afterward went on to have normal marital relations with Joseph, which produced up to six more children. These ideas were based on passages like Matthew 1:25 (“He [...] other relatives such as stepbrothers or stepsisters or cousins. There is one tradition that says that Joseph was a widower who married the Virgin Mary later in life after already having a family with his first
the Father. And here, you lay for the first time on Joseph's heart ... Then I swaddled you and together we placed you here. I rocked you while Joseph dried the hay at the flame and kept it warm by putting [...] told the story of the birth of her Son, indicating the exact places where everything happened while Joseph was resting and asleep: "Silence and sleep then enveloped the Just ... I heard another voice from [...] loved you. Finally, I could love you without the separation of the flesh; I rose to bring you to Joseph, to be loved by him who, like me, was deemed worthy to be among the first to love you. Here, between
the flow of grace, source of life. Saint Joseph was the protector of Jesus and Mary, and he is now the protector of the Church and of all families. Mary and Joseph remind us how much the family is a gift [...] appeared with the Child Jesus, and in 1660, 4 kilometers from this first place of apparition, Saint Joseph also appeared to a thirsty shepherd to whom he said: "Lift this rock and you will drink," revealing
nations; a light of revelation for the Gentiles and glory for your people Israel.” (Lk 2:32) Mary and Joseph are astounded when Simeon proclaims Jesus as a “light of revelation for the Gentiles”. Mary, instead [...] with reference to the prophecy of the sword that would pierce her heart, says nothing. Together with Joseph, she accepts in silence those mysterious words which predict a deeply sorrowful trial and give the
