The Life & Glories of Saint Joseph
Spend your life in honouring St. Joseph, and your love
and homage will never equal the love and homage paid to
him by Mary; it will approach never so distantly to the
obedience, the love, the homage paid to him for thirty
years on earth by the Son of God. But in proportion as
your heart grows towards him in the reverence and
unbounded confidence of a son will you trace in your
soul a more faithful copy of the Incarnate Word.
... Our Blessed Lord is as truly Man now that He is
seated in Heaven at the right hand of the Father as He
was when He trod the streets of Jerusalem and the ways
of Galilee. The Incarnate God, enthroned in His majesty
on high, is still our Brother-Man.
... being ever perfect Man as well as perfect God, as He
had a mother and a foster-father on earth, so now in
Heaven Mary is still His mother and Joseph retains the
honored name of father. The ties of their human
relationship still endure, and will endure forever.
... according to the doctrine of the Angelic Doctor, the
eternal predestination includes, not only what is to be
accomplished in time, but likewise the mode and order
according to which it is to be so accomplished.
... God willed that Mary by a marriage altogether heavenly
should be espoused to the humblest, the purest, and the
holiest of the royal race of David ... In the Divine mind
Joseph was the one chosen from amongst all others.