Chapter, Paragraph
1 Intro,1 | 1. "Joseph did as the angel of the
2 Intro,1 | stressed that just as St. Joseph took loving care of Mary
3 Intro,1 | veneration given to St. Joseph over the centuries, I wish
4 Intro,1 | not only will turn to St. Joseph with greater fervor and
5 Intro,1 | precisely the mystery in which Joseph of Nazareth "shared" like
6 Intro,1(4)| common name, also saw in Joseph of Egypt a prototype of
7 Intro,1(4)| of Egypt a prototype of Joseph of Nazareth, inasmuch as
8 I,2 | Marriage to Mary ~2. "Joseph, Son of David, do not fear
9 I,2 | biblical truth about St. Joseph; they refer to that moment
10 I,2 | while also describing how Joseph lived it. However, in order
11 I,2 | Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together
12 I,2 | to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David;
13 I,2 | to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David."
14 I,2 | Mary is already "wedded" to Joseph, she will remain a virgin,
15 I,2 | If, after her marriage to Joseph, Mary is found to be with
16 I,2 | visible to the people and to Joseph; she appears before them
17 I,3 | circumstances, "her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling
18 I,3 | him in a dream, saying, 'Joseph, son of David, do not fear
19 I,3 | divine messenger introduces Joseph to the mystery of Mary's
20 I,3 | which means "God saves."~Joseph is visited by the messenger
21 I,3 | married to him. It is to Joseph, then, that the messenger
22 I,3 | regard to Mary's Son.~"When Joseph woke from sleep, he did
23 II,4 | Mary meets the faith of Joseph. If Elizabeth said of the
24 II,4 | blessedness can be referred to Joseph as well, since he responded
25 II,4 | moment. While it is true that Joseph did not respond to the angel'
26 II,4 | One can say that what Joseph did united him in an altogether
27 II,4 | perfectly applicable to Joseph of Nazareth. ~
28 II,5 | Together with Mary, Joseph is the first guardian of
29 II,5 | Luke, one can also say that Joseph is the first to share in
30 II,6 | 6. The path that was Joseph's-his pilgrimage of faith-ended
31 II,6 | of truth. Nevertheless, Joseph's way of faith moved in
32 II,6 | a great devotion to St. Joseph, directed that Joseph's
33 II,6 | St. Joseph, directed that Joseph's name be inserted in the
34 II,7 | deduced from the gospel texts, Joseph's marriage to Mary is the
35 II,7 | for Jesus that God chose Joseph to be Mary's spouse. It
36 II,7 | spouse. It follows that Joseph's fatherhood-a relationship
37 II,7 | the evangelists refer to Joseph as Mary's husband and to
38 II,7 | uphold Mary's marriage to Joseph, because juridically Joseph'
39 II,7 | Joseph, because juridically Joseph's fatherhood depends on
40 II,7 | according to the genealogy of Joseph: "Why," St. Augustine asks, "
41 II,7 | they not be according to Joseph? Was he not Mary's husband?...
42 II,7 | her is of the Holy Spirit. Joseph was told to name the child,
43 II,7 | that Jesus is not born of Joseph's seed, since in his concern
44 II,7 | origin of Mary's pregnancy, Joseph is told that it is of the
45 II,7 | conjugal relations with Joseph, still calls him Christ'
46 II,7 | The Son of Mary is also Joseph's Son by virtue of the marriage
47 II,7 | the marriage of Mary and Joseph. At the culmination of the
48 II,7 | the marriage of Mary and Joseph that brings to realization
49 II,7 | unleashed on the world, Joseph and Mary arc the summit
50 II,8 | 8. St. Joseph was called by God to serve
51 II,8 | to the faithful care of Joseph,"(23) the Liturgy specifies
52 II,8(23) | for the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed
53 II,8 | of God was subjected to Joseph, he obeyed him and rendered
54 II,8(24) | for the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed
55 II,8 | we must recognize that Joseph showed Jesus "by a special
56 II,8 | over Jesus, God also gave Joseph a share in the corresponding
57 II,8 | fatherly responsibility of Joseph toward Jesus. For salvation-which
58 II,8 | being the Mother of God. Joseph is the one whom God chose
59 II,8 | of Jesus is entrusted to Joseph's guardianship. ~
60 II,9 | of legitimate authority, Joseph fulfilled for the child
61 II,9 | the name "Jesus, son of Joseph of Nazareth" (cf. Jn 1:45)
62 II,9 | and among all the others Joseph too went to register together
63 II,10 | in the fullness of time," Joseph, together with Mary, is
64 II,10 | in the inn" (Lk 2:6-7). ~Joseph was an eyewitness to this
65 II,10 | the forgiveness of sins. Joseph also witnessed the adoration
66 II,11 | this ceremony (cf. Lk 2:21) Joseph exercised his right and
67 II,12 | 12. At the circumcision Joseph names the child "Jesus."
68 II,12 | significance had been revealed to Joseph at the moment of his "annunciation": "
69 II,12 | In conferring the name, Joseph declares his own legal fatherhood
70 II,13 | and it is fulfilled by Joseph. Represented in the first-born
71 II,14 | once again had recourse to Joseph. We read: "Now when [the
72 II,14 | of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, 'Rise,
73 II,14 | had heard about. And so, Joseph, having been warned in a
74 II,14 | begin the Old Covenant, so Joseph, guardian and cooperator
75 II,15 | of the Annunciation, both Joseph and Mary found themselves,
76 II,15 | Together with Mary and Joseph, Jesus took part in the
77 II,15 | Father's house?" (Lk 2:49-50)~Joseph, of whom Mary had just used
78 II,15 | son (as was supposed) or Joseph" (Lk 3:23). Nonetheless,
79 II,15 | night twelve years earlier: "Joseph...do not fear to take Mary
80 II,16 | Family under the eyes of Joseph, who had the important task
81 II,16 | God and the memory of St. Joseph,(29) because "he fed him
82 II,16 | performed at the side of Joseph. ~
83 III,17 | faith which was his life, Joseph, like Mary, remained faithful
84 III,17 | Annunciation, at the moment of Joseph's own "annunciation" he
85 III,17 | became the beginning of "Joseph's way." The Gospels do not
86 III,17 | any word ever spoken by Joseph along that way. But the
87 III,17 | way. But the silence of Joseph has its own special eloquence,
88 III,17 | storehouse of the noble figure of Joseph.~
89 III,18 | to a man whose name was Joseph" (Lk 1:27). Even before
90 III,18 | before he lived with Mary, Joseph was already her "husband."
91 III,18 | who was "betrothed" to Joseph. Mary uttered her fiat.The
92 III,18 | Mary was "betrothed" to Joseph was part of the very plan
93 III,18 | Matthew. The words spoken to Joseph are very significant: "Do
94 III,18 | words explain the mystery of Joseph's wife: In her motherhood
95 III,18 | Son of Man."~Addressing Joseph through the words of the
96 III,18 | already existed between Joseph and Mary. God's messenger
97 III,18 | clear in what he said to Joseph: "Do not fear to take Mary
98 III,18 | taken place earlier, namely, Joseph's marriage to Mary, happened
99 III,19 | annunciation" by night, Joseph not only heard the divine
100 III,19 | called by God to this love. ~"Joseph did as the angel of the
101 III,19 | of the Blessed Trinity.~"Joseph. . .took his wife; but he
102 III,19 | Giver of Life (cf. Jn 6:63). Joseph, in obedience to the Spirit,
103 III,20 | celebrated as "united to Joseph, the just man, by a bond
104 III,20 | the marriage of Mary and Joseph. "Virginity or celibacy
105 III,20 | complete self-sacrifice, Joseph expressed his generous love
106 III,20 | coming to pass in Mary, Joseph obeyed the explicit command
107 III,20 | his marriage to Mary that Joseph derived his singular dignity
108 III,20 | because Mary was united to Joseph by the bond of marriage,
109 III,20 | can be no doubt but that Joseph approached as no other person
110 III,20 | follows that God, by giving Joseph to the Virgin, did not give
111 III,20 | her honor: he also gave Joseph to Mary in order that he
112 III,21 | mystery. In this family, Joseph is the father: his fatherhood
113 III,21 | Christ. Within this context, Joseph's human fatherhood was also "
114 III,21 | Nazareth. From the beginning, Joseph accepted with the "obedience
115 IV,22 | specifies the kind of work Joseph did in order to support
116 IV,22 | This simple word sums up Joseph's entire life. For Jesus,
117 IV,22 | a sharing in the work of Joseph. Having learned the work
118 IV,22 | Jesus' work at the side of Joseph the carpenter. In our own
119 IV,22 | liturgical memorial of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1. Human
120 IV,22 | trade together with Jesus, Joseph brought human work closer
121 IV,23(35) | constantly presented St. Joseph as the "model" of workers
122 IV,24 | accessible to all people: "St. Joseph is the model of those humble
123 V,25 | envelops everything else about Joseph also shrouds his work as
124 V,25 | speak exclusively of what Joseph "did." Still, they allow
125 V,25 | aura of deep contemplation. Joseph was in daily contact with
126 V,25 | renewal of veneration to St. Joseph in Western Christianity.~
127 V,26 | total sacrifice, whereby Joseph surrendered his whole existence
128 V,27 | communion of life between Joseph and Jesus leads us to consider
129 V,27 | the Mother of Jesus, and Joseph, his presumed father.(40)~
130 V,27 | should the "fatherly" love of Joseph not have had an influence
131 V,27 | upon the "fatherly" love of Joseph, thus leading to a further
132 V,27 | love have rightly seen in Joseph a brilliant example of the
133 V,27 | interior life.~Furthermore, in Joseph, the apparent tension between
134 V,27 | caritatis),(41) we can say that Joseph experienced both love of
135 VI,28 | patronage of the holy patriarch Joseph, declared him "Patron of
136 VI,28 | his most faithful servant Joseph, "the Church, after the
137 VI,28 | way: "The reasons why St. Joseph must be considered the special
138 VI,28 | presumed father of Jesus..., Joseph was in his day the lawful
139 VI,28 | fitting and most worthy of Joseph's dignity that, in the same
140 VI,30 | 30. Besides trusting in Joseph's sure protection, the Church
141 VI,30 | obedience made incarnate in St. Joseph, the man known for having
142 VI,30 | VI invited us to invoke Joseph's patronage "as the Church
143 VI,30 | The Church also calls upon Joseph as her protector because
144 VI,30 | such as shine forth in St. Joseph."(47)~
145 VI,31 | the faithful care of St. Joseph, she asks God to grant that
146 VI,31 | purity of heart that inspired Joseph in serving the Incarnate
147 VI,31 | holiness and justice, following Joseph's example and through his
148 VI,31 | for the protection of St. Joseph, Patron of the whole Church.
149 VI,31 | Quamquam Pluries appealed to Joseph's "fatherly love...for the
150 VI,31 | implored the protection of St. Joseph on the basis of "that sacred
151 VI,31 | Church has commended to Joseph all of her cares, including
152 VI,31(48) | for the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed
153 VI,31(48) | from the Votive Mass of St. Joseph. ~
154 VI,31 | commend everyone to St. Joseph.~
155 VI,32 | reflections on the person of St. Joseph will renew in us the prayerful
156 VI,32 | prayers and the very person of Joseph have renewed significance
157 VI,32 | salvation" of which St. Joseph was a special minister.
158 VI,32 | economy of salvation." May St. Joseph become for all of us an
159 VI,32 | Incarnation of the Word.~May St. Joseph obtain for the Church and
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