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While Joseph Maria and sleep, the angel appears to Joseph in a dream

Matthew 1.18-24.

Here's how it was the birth of Jesus Christ: His mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child through the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, who was right and did not want divorce, decided in secret. But while he thought on these things, behold, an angel appeared in his dream the Lord and said: "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife, because what is conceived in her is of the Spirit Santo. She will bear a son and you shall call his name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. " All this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet: Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son who will be called Emmanuel, meaning God with us. He woke up from sleep, Joseph did as the angel of the Lord and took with him his bride.

Dream of Saint Joseph

Museo Civico di Novara

COMMENT

The fear before a son of Joseph. Our own fears in front of us, children of the Son in the womb of Mary Immaculate. In her, we received the form of the Son, the very nature of God yet, we are afraid of ourselves. Of our shadow, the edges of the character of our uncertainties, words and gestures. Lest we are slaves, subject to a master who pulls us by the throat and makes us do what we do not want, it makes us say things we do not even dream of. It makes us think badly of ourselves. And God

Yes, the first fear, the fear of death that makes us slaves from the beginning, is the fear of ourselves. Of our success, our way of being, the refusal of those who we love. The fear of being ourselves. We love, we despise, we idealize in a dream world, we are committed to change and show "edible", acceptable, presentable, pleasant. And the burning of disappointments in clusters and increase the contempt proceedings on ourselves, which inevitably catapulted us about who is next. Fear and the scandal of an infinite distance. The laceration as a constantly open wound between the sublimity of our vocation and the infinite inadequacy of what we think is our being and our way of being in the world. The scandal and the fear of Joseph.

E 'something strange happened, out of the calculations and rules of life, the life of God is where no one expects it. Without warning, without asking permission, beyond any law. Even beyond the very Law of God Pregnant out of wedlock. Mary. Betrothed but not yet married. From a heart attack. The crash of the Incarnation, incident on the side of history. And Joseph rapt, trembling, afraid to seek ways and words to address the imponderable. As we, today, before our lives, our history. At the crumbs of existence that would like to have head and tail, and it failed to find any path logical. Human.

"Joseph, do not fear to take Mary your wife, because what is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit." Your wife . The bride is "already" married, God's Providence has been ahead of time. He has broken the rules of the world, the biology of the cosmos, drawing, from the eternal and the eternal, a path of salvation from the wounds of sinful humanity. Waters will love for Mary. Are the insults, the wry smile. Will be the sword. Even you, Immaculate Conception, has made her sinless sin to give birth to the world God made sin. The crash Incarnation, the path of Mercy in the history of the generations of men of sin. The Mother and the Son without any shadow of sin accused of sin. The Cross for both. The crazy and extreme love of God and total love to sinners free. To save them, and make them God, sin has made the Mother and the Son. And Joseph taking with them what the Holy Spirit had generated, and madly, had implemented.

The arduous journey of love. Jesus in the Jordan, in the ranks of sinners, and Mary pregnant out of wedlock. But there is a hidden truth, the mystery that shakes the earth, you "is" already married in the eyes of God, You are holy, holy You are the Mother of the Son of the saint. God is hidden in human flesh. Only the eyes of God see "beyond" the narrow view of man. The wonder and the fear of Joseph are our amazement, our fear. And the word of the angel addressed to each of us today is a balm of peace and hope: "Fear not, fear not to take with us Mary, the Daughter of Zion, to Donna, our history. In her, we generated, and that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. We are therefore by the breath of God, His life is in our lives. The meat barely holds her, the tent of clay that our members are sinners, those lumps of land that shocked us, block us, we are not scared that the poor stable in Bethlehem where God wanted to take home. Where God chose to be born in the world.

We are not afraid of ourselves, our weaknesses, everything that is wrong in us today, our obscure past, our future uncertain. What is in us, what we create today in this day and every day is the finger of God, the breath of His Spirit gives life to our death. In God we are "already" married with His Son, we are His forever, since before the creation of the world. And 'He is our fate, our weakness is a weakness in most aligned in the family tree of Jesus We are his fate and he is our homeland. Our sky. Our Life. We are precious in His sight. Our eyes see our lives reflected in a mirror, look at the eyes of God, and love, His Son in us. The eyes of God look at us with fatherly love. As Mary watched, of which, today as every day, we are the beloved children. With Mary and Joseph, then, on the streets of the Cross, a sword to pierce the heart and the unshakable certainty of being loved with an everlasting love. to His Son.

Gospel of Matthew 1:18-24.
E ste was the origin of Jesus Christ: His mother Mary was pledged to Joseph, when they still had not lived together, a child conceived by the Holy Ghost.
Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to publicly denounce it, decided to leave in secret.
As I thought about this, the Angel of the Lord appeared in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, fear not to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
She will a son, whom I shall name him Jesus, because He will save His people from all their sins. "
All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken through the prophet:
The virgin will conceive and bear a son who shall name Emanuel, which translated means "God with us."
Upon waking, Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary to his home.

Giotto, Il sogno di Giuseppe

Cappella degli Scrovegni Padova

COMMENT

The fear of facing a son Joseph. Our own fear against ourselves, sons in the Son, child within Mary Immaculate. In his bowels have received the faces of the Son, the very nature of God. But despite that, we are afraid of ourselves. Of our shadow, corner of nature, our uncertainties, words, gestures. For fear we are slaves, subject to an owner who pulls us by the throat and makes us would not want to comply, we do not utter words that we imagine. It makes us think badly of ourselves. And God.

True, the first fear, terror of death that makes us slaves of the principle is the fear of ourselves. Of our success, our way of life, rejection of those who would like want. The fear of being ourselves. We do not want, we despise what we are and we idealize in a dream world, we strive to change and to teach "food", acceptable, presentable, friendly. And the burns of clusters increase disappointments and trial contempt upon ourselves, which inevitably catapulted about who we are next. Fear and the scandal of a infinite distance. Laceration as a wound always open between the sublimity of our vocation and the infinite inadequacy of what we believe is our being and our way of being the world. The scandal and the fear of Joseph.

Something strange has happened, out of the calculations and rules, the life of God appears where nobody expected. Without warning, without asking permission, beyond every law. Even beyond the Law of God. Pregnant out of wedlock. Maria, promised wife, but no wife. Something to tear your heart . The scandal of the incarnation, unforeseen event in the history summit. And Joseph rapt, trembling, afraid to seek ways and words to remedy the imponderable. As we, today, against our lives, our history. A crumb of an existence that would have head and tail, and is not logical sense in any course, human.

"Joseph, fear not to take with you Maria, your girlfriend, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Ghost." Your girlfriend. The promised wife "and" is his wife, the Providence of God has advanced the time. You have exceeded the rules of the world, the biology of the cosmos, drawing, the eternal and the eternal, a way of salvation from the wounds of sinful humanity. Come the bitter waters to Maria. Come the insults, ironic smiles. Come the sword. She also, Immaculate Conception, without sin has made sin to give birth to the world God made sin. The scandal of the incarnation, the path of Mercy in the history of sin of generations of men. Mother and Son without any shadow of sin branded as sin. Cross both. Extreme and crazy love of God. Total and free love to sinners. To save them, and make God, sin has become the Mother and Son. And Joseph, just entente desubrir the will of God, take it how the Holy Spirit had conceived and acted foolishly.

is the arduous path of love. Jesus in the Jordan, in the row of sinners and Maria pregnant out of wedlock. But there is a hidden truth, the mystery that shakes the earth, she already is "bride in the eyes of God, she is a saint, she is the Mother of the Son holy saint. God has hidden in human flesh. Only the eyes of God are "beyond" the narrow view of man. The amazement and fear of Giuseppe are our amazement, our fear. And the angel's word now returns to each of us is a balm of peace and hope: "Fear not, do not be afraid to take us to Mary, the Daughter of Zion, Women, image and performance of our history. In her, we are begotten, and what has been conceived in her womb is the Holy Spirit. We then play the breath of God, His life is in our life. The underlying flesh with difficulty, the store of clay that are our membros sinners glebe land those shocked us, stop us, scare us, are the poor stable in Bethlehem where God has wanted to put his home. Where God has wanted to be born into the world.

not be afraid of ourselves, our weaknesses, everything that does not fit us today, our last abstruse, of our uncertain future. What belongs to us, without sin, is exactly what we have begotten you this day as every day, is the finger of God, the breath of His Spirit that gives life to our death. In God "and" we are married to His Son, we are from Yours always, since before the creation of the world. He is our lot, our weakness is a weakness aligned in the family tree of Jesus. We are his lot and he is our homeland. Our Heaven. Our Life. We are precious in His sight. Our eyes are our lives reflected in a mirror, look in the eyes of God, and want, His Son in us . The eyes of God look at us with fatherly love. As you have looked at Maria, that, today as every day, are the beloved child. With Mary and Joseph encaminémosnos the way of the cross, a sword to pierce the heart and unwavering certainty of being loved by an eternal love. The love of His Son.

Beato Angelico, Bodas de la Virgen

Pala Cortona [part.] Diocesan Museum in Cortona.

Joseph deserved to be called by God and believed God father

From a sermon by Saint Bernard, abbot.

was the custom of the Jews from the day of her engagement to the wedding the bride was entrusted to the custody of the groom, all the better because it preserved their modesty as they were loyal to each other. Now, like Thomas in his doubt and then by his encounter with Christ was the tangible witness stubborn resurrection of the Lord, Joseph, who is engaged to Mary, well known during the run-up to the wedding, heads was the most faithful of her modesty. Wonderful convenience of both fact: the doubt of Thomas and Mary's engagement.

It was therefore necessary that Mary was married to Joseph, that holy things should remain hidden from the infidels (cf. Mt 7:6), her virginity was confirmed by the groom and his modesty would remain intact and his fame. Nothing could be wiser and more worthy of divine Providence. With a single act is allowed a witness to the secrets of heaven, is excluded from the enemy, will keep intact the honor of the Virgin. But someone might object: "Joseph, as a man, could not help but doubt the loyalty his wife, but because it was a just man, certainly did not want to live with her because of this suspicion, nor yet (as it was also a pious man) wanted esperia infamy as suspect and therefore he had decided to leave secretly ' .

answer in a few words of doubt that this Joseph was required by God to have the appropriate insurance clarifying: "While he was thinking about these things," to let that secret, "appeared in a dream an angel the Lord and said, "Joseph son of David, king of fears take Mary your wife, because what is conceived in her is of the Spirit Ghost " (Mt 1.20).

For these reasons, therefore, Mary was married to Joseph, or, as the evangelist, "a man named Joseph" (Le 1:27). The evangelist says a man, not because the husband of a woman, but because a man of virtue, that is because, as noted by another evangelist (Mt 1.19), he was not simply a man, but the husband of her: so called because it just so people considered him.

He had, therefore, be said the husband of her, because it necessarily had to be considered, as well as deserved to be considered the father of the Savior, although it had in reality: "Jesus was about thirty when he began his ministry, and was the son, as was supposed of Joseph (Le 3.23).

Joseph, therefore, was neither the husband of the mother nor the father of the child, although, as stated above, given the situation which inevitably was, for a time he called, and as such was considered . From this we deduce: Joseph deserved to be called by God and believed God's father, Joseph was a man absolutely extraordinary. No doubt it was always a good man and true that Joseph, whose wife was the mother of the Savior.

faithful and wise servant, chosen by the Lord to comfort his mother and provide for her livelihood, the only assistant faithful on earth, the grand design of God

Giotto, The Marriage of the Virgin

Scrovegni Chapel, Padua.

John Paul II Redemptoris custos
, 25-26

The primacy of the inner life, in St. Joseph

also at work as a carpenter in the house of Nazareth extends the same aura of silence that goes with everything pertaining to the figure of Joseph. It 's a silent, but revealing in a special way the interior of this figure. The Gospels speak exclusively of what Joseph "did", but allow you to discover in his "actions" shrouded in silence, an atmosphere of deep contemplation. Joseph was in daily contact with the mystery "hidden for ages" (Col 1:26), that "dwelt" (Jn 1:14) under the roof of his house. This explains, for example, why St. Teresa of Jesus, the great reformer of the Carmelites, promoted the renewal of the cult of St. Joseph in western Christendom.

The total sacrifice, Joseph did his entire existence to the demands of the coming of the Messiah in his own home, becomes understandable only in "his profound inner life, from which they are singular commands and consolations to him, and he come to the logic and force, its of simple and clear souls, big decisions, such as immediately put at the disposal of the divine plan his freedom, his legitimate human calling, his marital happiness, accepting the condition of the family, responsibility and weight, and for giving an incomparable virginal love the natural conjugal love which is the foundation and power "(Pope Paul VI).

This submission to God, who will promptly to engage in things pertaining to his service, is nothing but the exercise of devotion, which is one of the expressions of the virtue of religion (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas).

"Doubt of Joseph "

" Antiphonarium de Sanctis, "Min School Bolognese, G Cod, f. 119v,
'Santa Maria dei Servi' to Bologna.

San Pedro Crisólogo (to 406-450), bishop of Ravenna, Doctor of the Church
146 Sermon on Matthew 1.18, PL 52, 591

"Mary the mother of Jesus was betrothed to Joseph "

" his mother Mary was betrothed. " It would have been enough to say Mary was betrothed. What does a mother married? If it is mother, is not married, if married, is not yet a mother. "His mother Mary was betrothed 'bride of virginity, fertility mother. She was a mother who had not known man, yet knew motherhood. How not to be a mother before conception, she that, after birth, a virgin and mother? When it was her and mother who gave birth to the founding of the times and gave a beginning to all things? ...

Why the mystery of celestial innocence is intended for a bride not a virgin still free? Why the jealousy of a bridegroom should endanger the bride? Why all under sin and salvation seems eternal danger? ... What is the mystery that we embrace here, brothers? No trace of the pen, or a letter or a syllable or a word or a name, or a character from the Gospel makes no sense divine. It has chosen a bride to be represented as the Church, Bride of Christ, as the prophet Hosea: "I will betroth you to me forever, I will betroth you in righteousness and in justice, in love and compassion I will betroth you in faithfulness "(2.21 to 22). So John says: "He who has the bride is the bridegroom" (Jn 3.29). And St. Paul: "I wanted to wed with one husband, presentándoos Christ as a faithful virgin" (2C 11.2). Oh true bride, the Church, that the virgin birth [of baptism] generates new children in Christ!