The earnings of a labourer provide the food for the creator of heaven and earth.
Into the little carpenter shop comes the young Jesus, apprenticed to a trade. Joseph guides the hands that guided the course of the stars; he teaches the maker of sun, stars, and planets the craft of making tables and chairs for peasants and yokes for oxen.
The Trinity looks down to the lovely trinity of earth — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit beautifully mirrored in Joseph, Mary, and Jesus.
Modern Christian homes receive their design and pattern from this model.
Modern Catholic marriage is here given its lovely example.
Childhood learns obedience as the young Jesus obeys the commands of his parents.
The hearts of Mary and Joseph create a union close and dear and intimate and utterly beautiful; together they live and think and plan and work for the Child, who has been given into their keeping.
Their’s was a beautiful family.
Remembering the happiness of Joseph in Nazareth, we pray:
The Prayer of Saint Joseph.
O God, who in your ineffable providence was pleased to choose blessed Joseph for the spouse of your most holy Mother, grant we beseech you, that we may be worthy to have him for our intercessor in heaven whom we venerate as our protector on earth. Who lives and reigns with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
(Copyright 1947 Daniel A. Lord, S.J. Nihil Obstat: John M. Fearns, S.T.D. Imprimatur: Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop, New York)
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