A Heart Glowing with Love

St Joseph does not teach us through his talk, good ser­mons, select­ed lec­tures, his teach­ing is silence. Even the Church, Holy Scrip­ture, has car­ried St Joseph’s silence out into the world. GOD Him­self is silent about His fos­ter and nurs­ing Father. How does Joseph respond to Him? – With silence, will­ing to make sacrifices.

Between GOD and St Joseph there is a holy exchange of love – the lan­guage of love – silence. It is a deep under­stand­ing with­out expla­na­tions and words because his whole being is there for the Beloved, devot­ed, silent, self-sac­ri­fic­ing, peace­ful. – There real­ly is no need for words, and GOD pours out His love again in silence – a con­stant exchange. That is why the Sword-Bish­op must fre­quent­ly be alone.

GOD is unchang­ing and infi­nite in His love. Should we nev­er­the­less be dis­ap­point­ed, the fault lies with us. We talk too much and impose our wish­es on GOD in the hope of receiv­ing an affir­ma­tive answer.

Let us come before GOD like Joseph – with a silent and mar­vel­ling heart, with open hands and a lov­ing heart, want­i­ng noth­ing oth­er than to give and accept love.

An elder­ly man used to walk past the church every day on his way to work, laid down his tools against a wall and went inside. The vil­lagers asked him one day what he was doing in the church every day. His answer: „I look at Him and He looks at me.“ Prob­a­bly very few peo­ple under­stood … more