Joseph, Guardian of Many Secrets

The poor world has lost its faith. Where will this lead to? – How are peo­ple sup­posed to still believe in the great­est mir­a­cles, in the Con­se­cra­tion dur­ing the Holy Sac­ri­fice of the Mass, in the Incar­na­tion of JESUS CHRIST, and in His work of Redemp­tion, which He accom­plished for the sake of the FATHER and of human­i­ty? – It is attrib­uted to St Joseph that he was the bio­log­i­cal father of the divine Child. Although peo­ple out of great igno­rance or through mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tions of Holy Scrip­ture may make this claim and also speak of var­i­ous bio­log­i­cal broth­ers of JESUS, chil­dren of Mary as it were, Holy Scrip­ture bears irrev­o­ca­ble wit­ness to the chasti­ty of Mary and Joseph.

Holy Scrip­ture reveals to us the vir­gin birth of the Redeemer, Isa­iah 7:14: „Behold, the vir­gin shall con­ceive and bear a son …“ and intro­duces St Joseph to us as His legal Father. Holy Scrip­ture shows us JESUS as the only SON of Mary. GOD Him­self is His FATHER, and it is express­ly stat­ed in Luke 1:35: „The Holy Spir­it will come upon you, and the pow­er of the Most High will over-shad­ow you …“ St Joseph is Mary’s Spouse and is hon­oured and hailed as the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of GOD the FATHER for the divine Child on earth. The Church pro­claims in the Litany: „You purest Moth­er, You most chaste Moth­er, You spot­less Moth­er, You Immac­u­late Moth­er!“ The Litany of St Joseph also states: „You chaste Guardian of the Vir­gin Mary!“ Joseph safe­guard­ed Mary’s hon­our before the peo­ple. He led the preg­nant Vir­gin to Beth­le­hem. He pro­tect­ed and sup­port­ed her … more