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Jun 27, 2024 · 3. Humility. Nowhere in the gospels do we see Joseph and Mary “throwing their weight around” as Jesus’ mother and father. It would have been very easy to tell everyone they were raising the Son of God, especially when others began to see that Jesus was different.
20 hours ago · In Christianity, Mary is commonly referred to as the Virgin Mary, in accordance with the belief that the Holy Spirit impregnated her, thereby conceiving her first-born son Jesus miraculously, without sexual relations with her betrothed Joseph, "until her son [Jesus] was born".
2 days ago · Mary, the mother of Jesus, venerated in the Christian church and a subject in Western art, music, and literature. Mary has been ascribed several titles, including guarantee of the Incarnation, virgin mother, second Eve, mother of God, ever virgin, immaculate, and assumed into heaven.
- Jaroslav Jan Pelikan
2 days ago · Now added to writings on St. Joseph is a book with a unique theme: The Life of St. Joseph as Seen by the Mystics, compiled by Paul Thigpen. While on the surface it can easily be thought of as a history of this greatest of all saints after Mary, the book goes far beyond that.
1 day ago · In Matthew, Joseph obeys the direction of an angel to marry Mary. Following the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, Joseph is told by an angel in a dream to take the family to Egypt to escape the massacre of the children of Bethlehem planned by Herod, the ruler of the Roman province of Judea.
3 days ago · The degree of his holiness is unimaginable yet measurable by the degree to which demons fear him, according to exorcists, who say that, after the Virgin Mary, the devil fears St. Joseph more than any other saint.
3 days ago · The home formed by Jesus, Mary and Joseph has always been regarded as a school of love, prayer and work. The promoters of this church wanted to set before the world love, work and service lived in the presence of God, as the Holy Family lived them.”
