SAN GIUSEPPE earthly father of Jesus' Son GOD'S
Grande, yet still relatively unknown. The concealment, during his lifetime as after his death, seems to be the "figure", the hallmark of St. Joseph. As rightly pointed Vittorio Messori, "I sit hidden and emerge only slowly over time seems to be part of the extraordinary role that was attributed in the history of salvation." The New Testament does not give St. Joseph a single word. When Jesus begins his public life, he has probably already died (at the wedding at Cana, in fact, is not mentioned), but we do not know where or when he died; do not know his grave, while we note that of Abraham who is older than ever. The Gospel gives the title of Righteous. In biblical language is called "righteous" who loves the spirit and letter of the law as an expression of the will of God descended from the house of David Joseph, to know that he was a craftsman working with wood. It was not old, as the hagiographic tradition and iconography, some present him, as the cliché of the "good old Joseph, who took in marriage of the Virgin of Nazareth to serve as foster father to the Son of God the contrary, he was a man in the prime of life, a generous heart and full of faith, certainly in love with Mary. With her are engaged according to the manners and customs of his time. The engagement for the Jewish equivalent to marriage lasted a year and did not give rise to a marriage or cohabitation between the two, eventually holding the festival during which the bride is introduced into the house of her boyfriend and so began their married life . If a child was conceived in the meantime, the husband of his name covering the baby, if the bride was found guilty of infidelity could be reported to the local court. The procedure to be met was nothing short of shameful: death by stoning the adulteress was imposed. Now just in the Gospel of Matthew we read that "Mary was espoused to Joseph, she found herself pregnant by the power dello Spirito Santo, prima di essere venuti ad abitare insieme. Giuseppe, suo sposo, che era un uomo giusto e non voleva esporla all’infamia, pensò di rimandarla in segreto”(Mt 18-19). Mentre era ancora incerto sul da farsi, ecco l’Angelo del Signore a rassicurarlo: “Giuseppe, figlio di Davide, non temere di prendere con te Maria, tua sposa, perché quel che è generato in lei viene dallo Spirito Santo. Ella partorirà un figlio, e tu lo chiamerai Gesù; egli infatti salverà il suo popolo dai suoi peccati” (Mt 1,20-21). Giuseppe può accettare o no il progetto di Dio. In ogni vocazione che si rispetti, al mistero della chiamata fa sempre da contrappunto l’esercizio della libertà, giacché il Signore non violenta mai l’intimità delle sue creature né mai interferisce sul loro libero arbitrio. Giuseppe allora può accettare o no. Per amore di Maria accetta, nelle Scritture leggiamo che “fece come l’Angelo del Signore gli aveva ordinato, e prese sua moglie con sé”(Mt 1, 24). Egli ubbidì prontamente all’Angelo e in questo modo disse il suo sì all’opera della Redenzione. Perciò quando noi guardiamo al sì di Maria dobbiamo anche pensare al sì di Giuseppe al progetto di Dio. Forzando ogni prudenza terrena, e andando al di là delle convenzioni sociali e dei costumi del suo tempo, egli seppe far vincere l’amore, mostrandosi accogliente verso il mistero Incarnation of the Word. In the first row of the faithful in chronological order of magnitude more than that he is: St. Joseph is without doubt the first devoted to Mary. Once known his mission, he devoted himself to her with all his might. He was married, guardian, pupil, guidance and support: all of Mary. (...) What Mary and Joseph was a real marriage? It 's the question that surfaces more frequently on the lips of scholars that is of simple believers. We know that their married life was one lived in virginity (cf. Mt 1, 18-25), which is a virginal marriage but a marriage, however, lived in communion fuller and more true: "a communion of life beyond eros, a spousal love which leads to a deep but not oriented to sex and generation "(S. De Fiores). If Mary lives by faith, Joseph is not the exception. If Mary is a model of humility, that humility is reflected also in that of her husband. Maria loved the silence, Joseph as well: the two of them existed, nor could it be otherwise, a spousal communion was true communion of hearts, hardened by deep spiritual affinity. "
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