DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS:
My Beloved, in the fullness of
time the Father sent You His only Son to bring into the world all that it has
lacked ever since the fall of our first parents. With You as the new Adam and Your Ma as the
new Eve God set in motion a new era in our salvation. The Old Testament spoke about it, the New
Testament reveals how we can receive the great gifts of peace, love, joy hope and
faith that You give and how we in turn can give them to others. We are called to make real in the world what
is already present in our hearts, Your reign of peace. Help us Lord to be true disciples and
witnesses so we can hasten Your coming.
You love the meek and humble
because they know who they are. They are
those who know that without You they are nothing and can do nothing. God battles on behalf of those who are aware
that they are nothing but a puff of air.
Should God take away His Breath they die. They lean on Him and depend on Him for their
sustenance both spiritual and material.
Beloved, I pray for the day and
may it come quickly, when the whole world from sea to sea and from the rising
of the sun to its setting all peoples of all nations and language will offer
You all praise, glory and honor for it is fitting that all creation
acknowledges Your glory, majesty and Kingship.
My Beloved, almost everything we
will ever know about St. Joseph are mentioned in these few verses. Here we get a snapshot of his character, the
man Your Father chose to be Your foster daddy, to bear his name and lineage. He was
entrusted with the awesome role of protector, guardian and provider to His
daughter Mary the most chaste spouse of
the Holy Spirit and to You His Only Son.
In a few short lines, the most awesome
mystery of God becoming Man is revealed.
From the moment of Your conception You were at risk if St. Joseph did
what his conscience prompted him was the right thing to do which was to put aside both Mother and Child. He was aware that both risked death for she had conceived a child that was not her husband’s.
Like Mary, Joseph too pondered
and waited on God – he was not disappointed.
We too my Beloved must wait on God to reveal to us what is His will for
our lives when it comes to the important issues. Once we know what God desires from us, like
St. Joseph, we must embrace it and act on it promptly, accept it totally and be
joyful as we execute it. Great things
will happen when we do. Like Joseph we
will witness God at work up close and very, very personally.
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