For the Feast of St. Joseph today:
Wisdom Lessons from the life of St. Joseph:
A meditation for his feast.
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We have no idea what God is planning for us, only that it is for our good. Our job is simply to be faithful to the present moment and to its ever new invitation to choose the way of light, to do the Divine Will.
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God does not pre-emptively remove doubt or fear or suffering, rather He asks us to surrender them to Him and simply follow His way in Love, thus transforming them into tools for spiritual growth.
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We can make mistakes thinking that we are doing the good or even the will of God, but Angels will always be sent to invite us back to the way; our job is to not allow the despair or guilt we feel to drown out their voices or blind us to their presence however they appear.
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God uses the most ordinary of our human circumstances: our family, our community, our travels and our daily work to reveal the deepest significance of our being as children of God.
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God reveals Himself far more clearly in our rest, in our stillness and in our silence than He does in our activity or our words.
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Mastery is a matter of discipline, repeititon and heart not words, publicity or show.
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Only by becoming what we are in the mind of God do we touch true peace. Prayer is the path and the instrument of this becoming.
We will always find the Christ through the presence of the Mother.
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St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, chaste spouse of the Blessed Virgin, protector of families, terror of demons and patron of the Universal Church; pray for us+
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