{"id":20955,"date":"2020-12-21T05:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/?p=20955"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:12:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:12:05","slug":"christmas-lessons-in-the-school-of-st-joseph-the-anchor-december-24-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/christmas-lessons-in-the-school-of-st-joseph-the-anchor-december-24-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Lessons in the School of St. Joseph, The Anchor, December 24, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. Roger J. Landry
\nThe Anchor
\nPutting Into the Deep
\nDecember 24, 2020<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

On December 8, to mark the 150th anniversary of Saint Joseph\u2019s being declared the patron of the universal church, Pope Francis decreed a Year of Saint Joseph and published a beautiful apostolic letter entitled, Patris Corde<\/em>, \u201cWith the Heart of a Father.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastical holy years are meant to influence everything the Church does. As we\u2019ve seen over the course of the last 20 years \u2014 during the Jubilee of Mercy, the Great Jubilee of Redemption, and the Years of the Rosary, the Eucharist, St. Paul, Priests, Faith, and the Consecrated Life \u2014 the given theme provides special light to help us integrate and deepen our understanding and living of the faith as we relate each aspect of Catholic life to the theme of the year-long observance. The Year of St. Joseph is meant to have the same type of impact.<\/p>\n

Hence it\u2019s fitting, as we prepare to celebrate Christmas during this holy year, that we do so by entering \u201cSt. Joseph\u2019s School.\u201d There we can learn seven lessons about how he lived the first Christmas that can help us, according to our circumstances, live well this one.<\/p>\n

The first lesson is about involvement. St. Joseph\u2019s participation was long willed by God, as we see in the genealogies of Jesus in St. Matthew and St. Luke, both of which run through St. Joseph. Just as Mary was part of God\u2019s advent through her Immaculate Conception, a singular grace given in view of her becoming the mother of the Son of God, so was Joseph part of God\u2019s remote preparation, so that Jesus would be a son of David through the law. While Joseph was a natural shoot from Jesse\u2019s tree, we have been \u201cgrafted\u201d into that family tree (Rom 11:11-24), and we should be filled with Josephite wonder at how Jesus\u2019 nativity implicates each one of us.<\/p>\n

The second lesson is about trusting, obedience to God. After the angel appeared to Joseph in a dream, he didn\u2019t hesitate to take Mary his wife into his home. He could have easily, even in a pre-Freudian age, deconstructed the dream according to the standard of his conscious desires and concerns, and continued confused about the genesis of the child Mary had miraculously conceived without male participation. Instead Joseph awoke and did as God through his angel commanded. He did the same in response to three other dreams.<\/p>\n

We might ask: Why didn\u2019t the angel come to Joseph right after the Annunciation to clue him in, or inform him at least the night before Mary\u2019s return from caring for Elizabeth and the newborn John the Baptist, so that he would not have had to endure the bewilderment, doubt, and scandal and would never have considered divorcing Mary? The likely reason is so that we could learn from him. Pope Benedict taught, \u201cThroughout all of history, Joseph is the man who gives God the greatest display of trust, even in the face of such astonishing news.\u201d<\/p>\n

For that reason, he is justly compared to Abraham. Just as Abraham left his native place, believed in God\u2019s power to give a child against the normal laws of nature, was willing to see the child sacrificed knowing that God could raise him again, and it was all \u201ccredited it to him as righteousness\u201d (Gen 15:6, Rom 4:22) so Joseph, a \u201crighteous man\u201d (Mt 1:19), did the same. He is, like Abraham, a true \u201cfather in faith.\u201d If St. Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, could say of Mary \u201cBlessed are you who believed that what the Lord had spoken to you would be fulfilled\u201d (Lk 1:45), so we can all give the same praise to Joseph. His example of attentive, obedient faith invites us to trust completely in God and do promptly what he asks.<\/p>\n

The third lesson is about prayerful silence in response to the mind-blowing mystery of God-with-us. St. Joseph never says a word in Sacred Scripture, although St. Matthew beautifully implies that he spoke once \u2014\u00a0and said everything \u2014\u00a0when he gave the newborn Son of God the Father and of Mary the name \u201cJesus.\u201d Everything in his life can be summed up by his speaking that one word, \u201cGod saves,\u201d for his entire existence became directed, as a hard-working \u201cdoer of the word\u201d (Js 1:22), toward helping Jesus fulfill that saving mission.<\/p>\n

His silence, however, speaks volumes. It shows that he was steeped in contemplation of the mystery of God, listening to the Word he was raising, adoring him and God\u2019s will enfleshed in him. He quietly worshipped Jesus and observed the loving adoration of Mary, the shepherds, angels, wise men, animals and angels. He continued to do so in Nazareth shrouded in the silence of the workshop and the home, as Jesus worked alongside him rebuilding the human race. In 2005, Pope Benedict prayed that in a cacophonous world that discourages recollection and attentive listening to God\u2019s voice, all of us would be \u201cinfected\u201d with Joseph\u2019s prayerful silence.<\/p>\n

The fourth lesson is about protection. Joseph was entrusted by God the Father as the \u201cguardian,\u201d or we could say \u201cbody guard,\u201d of the Redeemer. We see the confidence of God the Father in Joseph\u2019s faith-filled capacity to give everything to protect Jesus in the fact that the Angel of God was sent to Joseph in a dream at the last second, summoning him immediately to arise, take the baby Jesus and Mary, and flee to Egypt, for Herod was seeking to assassinate the child. St. Peter Chrysologos commented that \u201cthough all Heaven was alarmed and fear had spread there before it reached earth,\u201d God the Father didn\u2019t give Joseph even a day\u2019s notice about the impending danger. Upon hearing the message in a dream, Joseph didn\u2019t snooze until the morning. He arose, awakened Mary and Jesus, and leaving everything behind, began the trek on foot through the desert.<\/p>\n

Consequently St. Joseph has been aptly referred to as the \u201cSavior of the Savior.\u201d Blessed Pius IX 150 years ago placed the Church under St. Joseph\u2019s patronage so that he might similarly protect and defend the holy family Christ himself founded. Just as Joseph didn\u2019t disappoint God the Father\u2019s trust, neither will he disappoint the Church\u2019s. And he teaches us all how to guard Jesus and his Mother and all those in their image.<\/p>\n

The fifth lesson is about providing. Joseph was resourceful enough to find lodging for Mary to give birth. He entrepreneurially found work in Bethlehem, Egypt and in Nazareth to support the Holy Family. St. Paul VI said that he \u201cturned his human vocation to domestic love into a superhuman oblation of self,\u201d living what St. John Paul II called the \u201cepitome of the Gospel of Work\u201d as he provided for Jesus and Mary.<\/p>\n

For this reason the saints throughout the centuries have compared him to Joseph the Patriarch (Gen 37-50). They share the same name, the same receptivity to God\u2019s word through dreams, a similar chastity, and the know how to provide for God\u2019s family. Each was a \u201cwise and faithful servant whom the Lord put in charge of his household (Lk 12:42). Pharoah called Joseph the Patriarch the \u201cSavior of the World\u201d (Gen 41:45) for storing wheat for bread that sustained the world during seven years of famine. Joseph of Nazareth provided for the Living Bread who would be the world\u2019s true salvation. With confidence the Christian faithful has therefore never ceased to follow Pharaoh\u2019s advice to \u201cgo to Joseph.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sixth lesson is about chastity. St. Joseph is invoked as Mary\u2019s \u201cmost chaste spouse,\u201d someone who reciprocates Mary\u2019s pure, white hot, spousal love and demonstrates, at a time when the sexual revolution has upended the meaning of love, marriage, sexuality and children, that true human love does not have to be carnally expressed. In Patris corde<\/em>, Pope Francis writes that the chastity of St. Joseph is \u201cthe summation of an attitude that is the opposite of possessiveness. Chastity is freedom from possessiveness in every sphere of one\u2019s life. Only when love is chaste is it truly love. \u2026 He never made himself the center of things. He did not think of himself, but focused instead on the lives of Mary and Jesus.\u201d St. Joseph teaches us all how to love with similar unselfishness.<\/p>\n

The last lesson is about growth. The name \u201cJoseph\u201d means \u201cincrease.\u201d His fatherhood was directly totally to helping Jesus grow according to his humanity, and Joseph wants to help Jesus grow in all of us. The sure path to making that happen is through growing in devotion to St. Joseph, since Joseph\u2019s whole life points to Jesus.<\/p>\n

As we prepare to mark Christmas, we ask St. Joseph\u2019s intercession, to help us act on the angel\u2019s directive to \u201cget up, take the child and his mother\u201d (Mt\u00a0<\/em>2:13), as faithfully, lovingly and wholeheartedly as he did.<\/p>\n

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