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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Joseph
DESCRIPTION:THE GUARDIAN AND PROTECTOR \nOF THE SON OF GOD \nFrom a homily by Fr Karl Rahner \n◊◊◊ \n“Joseph\, the husband of Mary\, being a just man\, and not wishing to \nexpose her to reproach\, was minded to put her away privately.” \nWhy should Joseph have wanted to put Mary away? Could it have been \nperhaps for this reason: that he felt himself\, was bound to feel himself\, somehow \nshut out from this mystery which had come to pass between Mary and heaven? \nSince she had now been claimed by someone higher\, indeed by God himself\, we \nmay well suppose that Joseph felt he could have no further claim of any kind \nupon her and resolved\, therefore\, to put her away privately. \nIf we interpret the text in this way – and it is at least a possible \ninterpretation of an obscure and difficult text – then the message that Joseph \nreceived from heaven\, the angel that appeared to him in a dream\, takes on a new \nand different light. The angel does not merely tell Joseph that Mary has \nconceived her child through the power of God – though this fact\, which Joseph \nalready knew from Mary\, is confirmed by the apparition – but has as his \nprincipal message: “Take Mary as your wife.” \nBe a father to this child\, heaven is saying\, fulfill the duties of a father \ntowards this child which heaven has sent to your bride. Protect\, watch over\, \nlove\, shield\, take care of this child. This duty is laid on Joseph by God himself. \nWe can say\, therefore\, that he is the foster-father and guardian of the child\, not \njust because his wedded bride has conceived a child from heaven\, but because \nGod himself wished him to take the place of a father to the son of God who had \ncome to save the world… Through this message from above Joseph is drawn into \nthe great\, public\, official story of salvation. He acts no longer in the purely \nprivate capacity of bridegroom and later husband of Mary\, but plays an official \nrole in the salvation story. He is the guardian and protector of the Son of God\, \ndirectly appointed to that office\, and not just drifting into this relationship with \nthe divine child through the accident of his betrothal to Mary. \nWe too are often called to be guardians of the Holy One in ourselves\, in \nour lives\, in our work… We are being called upon to be the guardians of \nsomething holy\, something great: God’s grace in us and about us. For us no \nangel from heaven appears\, no dream-apparition bids us: Take the child to \nyourself. And yet it seems as though through purely earthly incidents we are \nmade responsible for what is heavenly and divine\, for God’s grace in our own \nhearts and in our earthly surroundings. In all these the Son of God who became \nman continues his life\, and we are all asked whether the task of guarding this \nSon of God\, whom we meet in others\, will find us as true as Joseph\, of whom it is \nsaid: he was faithful\, he took the child and his mother to himself\, he spent his \nwhole life guarding the child so that it might become in truth the savior and the \nlife of the world.
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