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Saint Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life. - Saint Josemaria Escriva
Saint Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families. – Blessed Pope John Paul II
Here’s some extraction from Chapter 37 “The First Working Lesson Given to Jesus”, from Volume 1, “The Poem of the Man-God” as dictated by Jesus Christ to the visionary Maria Valtorta:
See the Imprimatur (Encouragements-130)
Jesus says:
“…Not even now that I am in Heaven can I forget the happy hours I spent beside Joseph, who, as if he were playing with Me, guided Me to the point of being capable of working. And when I look at My putative father, I see once again the little kitchen garden and the smoky workshop, and I still appear to see Mother peep in with Her beautiful smile which turned the place into Paradise and made us so happy.
How many families should learn from the perfection of this couple who loved each other as nobody else ever loved! |
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Joseph was the head of the family, and as such, his authority was undisputed and indisputable: before it the Spouse and Mother of God bent reverently and the Son of God submitted Himself willingly. Whatever Joseph decided to do, was well done: there were no discussions, no punctiliousness, no oppositions. His word was our little law. And yet, how much humility there was in him! There was never any abuse of power, or any decisions against reason only because he was the head of the family. His Spouse was his sweet advisor. And if in Her deep humility She considered the servant of Her consort, he drew from Her wisdom of Full of Grace, light to guide him in all events.
And I grew like a flower protected by vigorous trees, between those two loves that interlaced above Me, to protect Me, and love Me.
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Finally I would like to draw the attention of parents to how Joseph made a clever workman of Me, without any help of pedagogical learning. As soon as I was old enough to handle tools, he did not let Me lead a life of idleness, but he started Me to work and he made use of My love for Mary as the means to spur Me to work. I was to make useful things for Mother. That is how he inculcated the respect which every son should have for his mother and the teaching for the future carpenter was based on that respectful and loving incentive.
Where are now the families in which the little ones are taught to love work as a means of pleasing their parents? Children, nowadays, are the tyrants of the house. They grow hard, indifferent, ill-mannered towards their parents. They consider their parents as their servants, their slaves. They do not love their parents and they are scarcely loved by them. The reason is that, while you allow your children to become objectionable overbearing fellows, you become detached from them with shameful indifference.
They are everybody’s children, except yours, o parents of the 20th Century. They are the children of the nurse, of the governess, of the college, if you are rich people. They belong to their companions; they are the children of the streets, of the schools, if you are poor. But they are not yours. You mothers give birth to them and that is all. And you, fathers, do exactly the same. But a son is not only flesh. He has a mind, a heart, a soul. Believe Me, no one is more entitled and obliged than a father and a mother to form that mind, that heart, that soul.
A family is necessary: it exists and must exist. There is no theory or progress capable of destroying this truth without causing ruin. A shattered family can but yield men and women who in future will be more perverted, and will cause greater and greater ruin. And I tell you most solemnly that it would be better if there were no more marriages and no more children on earth, rather than have families less united than the tribes of monkeys, families which are no school of virtue, of work, of love, of religion, but a babel in which everyone lives on his own like disengaged gears, which end up by breaking.
Broken families. You break up the most holy way of social living and you see and suffer the consequences. You may continue thus, if you so wish. But do not complain if the world is becoming a deeper and deeper hell, a dwelling place of monsters who devour families and nations. You want it. Let it be so.”
Important Note: You have noticed that the aforesaid are not our creation. Thus, if you are in anyway disagreed, please proceed to challenge Jesus Christ, we trust that He who is the Almighty God, will clarify all your doubts and enlighten your mind.
Acknowledgements: We want to thank the Publishers for allowing us to publish the aforesaid works; to serve as encouragements to all who read them.
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