NEF March 2021
“Joseph saw Jesus grow daily ‘in wisdom and in years and in divine and human favour” (Lk 2:52). As the Lord had done with Israel, so Joseph did with Jesus: he taught him to walk, taking him by the hand; he was for him like a father who raises an infant to his cheeks, bending down to him and feeding him (cf. Hos 11:3-4). In Joseph, Jesus saw the tender love of God: ‘As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him’ (Ps 103:13).
In the synagogue, during the praying of the Psalms, Joseph would surely have heard again and again that the God of Israel is a God of tender love, who is good to all, whose ‘compassion is over all that he has made’ (Ps 145:9).”
(Pope Francis, Apostolic Letter “Patris Corde”, n. 2)
Happy feast of St. Joseph, “…special protector of the Church and the Institute.” (RoL 92, d).
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