![]() ![]() Remembering the happiness of Joseph in Nazareth, we pray: 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. ![]() Modern Catholic marriage is here given its lovely example.Ĭhildhood learns obedience as the young Jesus obeys the commands of his parents. Modern Christian homes receive their design and pattern from this model. The Trinity looks down to the lovely trinity of earth - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit beautifully mirrored in Joseph, Mary, and Jesus. 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. Into the little carpenter shop comes the young Jesus, apprenticed to a trade. The earnings of a labourer provide the food for the creator of heaven and earth. ![]() Wonderful things have happened in the long annals of mankind, but none have been more wonderful than what occurred in the little house and shop of Joseph in Nazareth. ![]()
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