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When my wife and I were dating and engaged we focused on a lot of devotions to Saint Joseph. A month before we met she did a consecration to him and later that year I did as well. We got engaged and then married both on Saint Joseph's feast day (a year apart).
Now I'm almost 18 months into fatherhood and I've been thinking about the love Saint Joseph had for Christ.
I started thinking about how Saint Joseph was already passed away at the time of Christ's passion and crucifixion, and wondered whether that was an act of God's mercy cause, but also necessary for the completion of God's plan for salvation? I keep think how I wouldn't be able to allow my son to be tortured and executed so long as I have breath in my lungs, and wonder whether Saint Joseph would've tried to intervene with the authorities had he been alive and present at that time.
Sure he submitted to God's will the same as Our Lady but not in the perfect way she did, right? That makes me wonder whether he would've tried to stop the guards and the Romans from attacking his son, or whether he might've thrown himself under the whips when Christ was scourged, or even tried to offer himself as to be executed instead, like I think most fathers instinctually would.
Is there any discourse on this already? That Saint Joseph's absence from that part of the story was both a necessity for God's plan to happen and an act of mercy on Saint Joseph by God.
Just some random thoughts I had here thinking about fatherhood and the model earthly father for all Catholics.
Now I'm almost 18 months into fatherhood and I've been thinking about the love Saint Joseph had for Christ.
I started thinking about how Saint Joseph was already passed away at the time of Christ's passion and crucifixion, and wondered whether that was an act of God's mercy cause, but also necessary for the completion of God's plan for salvation? I keep think how I wouldn't be able to allow my son to be tortured and executed so long as I have breath in my lungs, and wonder whether Saint Joseph would've tried to intervene with the authorities had he been alive and present at that time.
Sure he submitted to God's will the same as Our Lady but not in the perfect way she did, right? That makes me wonder whether he would've tried to stop the guards and the Romans from attacking his son, or whether he might've thrown himself under the whips when Christ was scourged, or even tried to offer himself as to be executed instead, like I think most fathers instinctually would.
Is there any discourse on this already? That Saint Joseph's absence from that part of the story was both a necessity for God's plan to happen and an act of mercy on Saint Joseph by God.
Just some random thoughts I had here thinking about fatherhood and the model earthly father for all Catholics.
