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พระบิดาเจ้าสวรรค์ ทรงเลือกสรรยอแซฟ หนุ่มช่างไม้แห่งนาซาเร็ธ ให้เป็นบิดาเลี้ยงของพระเยซูคริสตเจ้า และเป็นภัสดาของพระนางพรหมจารีมารีย์ หลังจากที่ท่านยอแซฟ และมารีอาผู้ประพฤติพรหมจรรย์ทั้งคู่ได้หมั้นกันแล้ว เทวดาองค์หนึ่งเข้าฝันยอแซฟ และแจ้งให้ทราบว่ามารีอาจะให้กำเนิดบุตรชายคนหนึ่งด้วยอำนาจของพระจิต เป็นพระบุตรของพระเป็นเจ้าที่เสด็จลงมาบังเกิดเป็นมนุษย์เพื่อไถ่บาปโลก
ยอแซฟได้ทำหน้าที่เป็นผู้นำครอบครัวอย่างศรัทธา กล้าหาญ และเปี่ยมด้วยคุณธรรมนานัปการ เริ่มตั้งแต่เดินทางไปลงบัญชีสำมะโนประชากรที่เบธเลเฮม พระนางมารีย์ต้องบังเกิดพระกุมารในถ้ำเลี้ยงสัตว์ เพราะไม่มีที่พักในโรงแรม ต้องหนีราชภัยจากกษัตริย์เฮโรดไปพักอาศัยอยู่ที่ประเทศอียิปต์ชั่วระยะหนึ่งฯลฯ ที่นาซาเร็ธ ยอแซฟ ได้ทำอาชีพช่างไม้ด้วยความเหนื่อยยาก แต่ก็มีความชื่นชมยินดีที่ปฏิบัติตามพระประสงค์ของพระผู้เป็นเจ้า
ยอแซฟได้สิ้นใจในอ้อมแขนของพระเยซูเจ้าและแม่พระ
Joseph
Also known as
Joseph the Betrothed; Joseph the WorkerMemorial
19 March; 1 May (Joseph the Worker)Profile
Descendant of the house of David. Layman. Carpenter. Earthly spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Foster and adoptive father of Jesus Christ. Visionary who was visited by angels. Noted for his willingness to immediately get up and do what God told him.
Died
1st century, prior to the Passion, of natural causesName Meaning
whom the Lord adds (Joseph)Patronage
against doubt; against hesitation; Americas; archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska; Austria; diocese of Balanga, Philippines; diocese of Bangued, Philippines; diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Belgium; diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi; Bohemia; diocese of Buffalo, New York; bursars; diocese of Butuan, Philippines; cabinetmakers; Canada; Candian Armed Forces (in 1941); Carinthia; carpenters; Catholic Church (1847 by Blessed Pope Pius IX); diocese of Cheyenne, Wyoming; China; archdiocese of Cologne, Germany; confectioners; craftsmen; Croatian people (in 1687 by decree of the Croatian parliment); diocese of Daet, Philippines; dying people; emigrants; engineers; expectant mothers; families; fathers; Florence Italy; happy death; archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut; holy death; house hunters; immigrants; interior souls; diocese of Itanagar, India; Korea; diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin; La Spezia, Italy; laborers; Laguna Indian Pueblo; archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky; diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire; diocese of Mangalore, India; married people; diocese of Menevia, Wales; Mexico; diocese of Nashville, Tennessee; New France; New World; Oblates of Saint Joseph; diocese of Osnabr?ck, Germany; people in doubt; people who fight Communism; Peru; pioneers; pregnant women; protection of the Church; diocese of Rarotonga, Cook Islands; diocese of Romblon, Philippines; diocese of San Jose, California; apostolic vicariate of San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines; diocese of San Jose, Nueva Ecija, Philippines; Sicily; diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; social justice; Spadafora, Sicily; Styria, Austria; diocese of Tagbilaran, Philippines; travellers; Turin, Italy; Tyrol, Austria; unborn children; Universal Church (1847 by Blessed Pope Pius IX); Vatican II; Viet Nam; diocese of Virac, Philippines; diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia; wheelwrights; workers; working people
Readings
He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine Son and Mary, Joseph's wife. He carried out this vocation with complete fidelity until at last God called him, saying 'Good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord.'from a sermon by Saint Bernardine of Siena
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There is a general rule concerning all special graces granted to any human being. Whenever the divine favor chooses someone to receive a special grace, or to accept a lofty vocation, God adorns the person chosen with all the gifts of the Spirit needed to fulfill the task at hand.This general rule is especially verified in the case of Saint Joseph, the foster-father of our Lord, and the husband of the Queen of our world, enthroned above the angels. He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine Son and Mary, Joseph's wife. He carried out this vocation with complete fidelity until at last God called him, saying "Good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord."
Remember us, Saint Joseph, and plead for us to your foster child. Ask your most holy bride, the Virgin Mary, to look kindly upon us, since she is the mother of him who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns eternally. Amen.
from a sermon by Saint Bernardine of Siena
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What emanates from the figure of Saint Joseph is faith. Joseph of Nazareth is a "just man" because he totally "lives by faith." He is holy because his faith is truly heroic.Sacred Scripture says little of him. It does not record even one word spoken by Joseph, the carpenter of Nazareth. And yet, even without words, he shows the depth of his faith, his greatness.
Saint Joseph is a man of great spirit. He is great in faith, not because he speaks his own words, but above all because he listens to the words of the Living God. He listens in silence. And his heart ceaselessly perseveres in the readiness to accept the Truth contained in the word of the Living God.
We see how the word of the Living God penetrates deeply into the soul of that man, that just man. And we, do we know how to listen to the word of God? Do we know how to absorb it into the depths of our human personalities? Do we open our conscience in the presence of this word?
Pope John Paul II from Daily Meditations
