Who is Joseph, the foster-father of Jesus? A Friend of Medjugorje shares amazing insight into this man, whom God put as the guardian and teacher of His Son, and what it shows about how holy families live.
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Today is Wednesday,
December 26, 2018, and this is Radio WAVE.
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Broadcasting
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Studio at Caritas, Alabama. This is Radio
WAVE with a Friend of Medjugorje.
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
Ten years from now, twenty years
from now, thirty, forty years from now, people will still be alive, even fifty
years from now. What will they be reminiscing about in those decades to come?
If they were following Our Lady and listening to Her messages, many will be
asking them, who were born after those dates, What was it like to look forward for the 25th or the 2nd
or the mountain apparitions? Because its surreal! Were so used to it.
Its normal. Even in 1988 thats only seven years after the apparitions
began. But Marija had apparitions every single day.
And what was it to her at that point, after seven years, 365 days per year, 365
apparitions per year? Thats well over 1,000 apparitions! Marijas
at our house, has an apparition, goes upstairs with the kids in the upper
bedroom. We hear things crashing. We go up there, and shes in a pillow fight
standing on the bed with them, knocking them around, knocking them off the bed.
That doesnt sound normal. That doesnt sound like someone who just saw the
Virgin Mary and had an incredible experience.
Whatever touches our human side and
the routine of it being so long becomes a normal part of your life. But that
mystique gets worn down some. It becomes normal. But thats not going to be
there fifty years from now. Theyre going to want to talk to you or talk to
others or go to the writings. What was
it like? They want to try to enter into it
because theyre going to see the world has changed, radically, through these
apparitions.
And so, we waited on the 25th.
We have Christmas, and we have Baby Jesus comes on Christmas through Our Lady
appearing to the visionaries. And yet, for us, its normal. We know this
happens. Imagine if youre 37 years old. The normal thing is, is for the
messages to be coming out. Our Ladys every day. You grew up with it. You dont
have the cognition of the 60s and the 70s and the late 50s,
actually. I was born in the beginning of the 50s, 1953, where we saw God
dying, everything drying out, spiritual drying up, all the benedictions,
Adorations, no Confessions, all dying into the 70s. The lowest peak of man is
not now, even though we see so much evil. The lowest peak of mankind in his
degradation was just a few seconds, one second, before Our Lady appeared in
1981, June 24th. That was the turnaround of spiritual, mystical,
miracles, and the visitation from Heaven immediately made believers of the six.
And the next few days, a few more, then hundreds, then thousands, then hundreds
of thousands, and now millions, and now tens of millions. And there will be
billions in the future. Were on the upside. But that didnt stop darkness from
going deeper, but the void of holiness was maximum at that date. Holiness is
growing, and it is increasing. So is evil. And Our Lady gave that message. satan is losing
his power. hes becoming more aggressive. hes causing murder, priest against
priest. All these things we know are happening. But we see also, the light
growing. And thats the message we got from Our Lady this Christmas day when
She appeared to Marija.
[JOAN]
Our Ladys December 25, 2018
monthly message to the world:
Dear children! I am carrying to you my Son Jesus who is the
King of Peace. He gives you peace and may it not be only for you but, little
children, carry it to others in joy and humility. I am with you and am praying
for you in this time of grace which God desires to give you. My presence is a
sign of love here while I am with you to protect you and lead you towards
eternity. Thank you for having responded to my call.
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
Oh, theres nothing exciting here. Theres nothing She hasnt said
before. Theres nothing here thats not in the Gospel. Theres nothing here
that you havent heard from a priest say in so many words. So, why should I pay
attention to it? If youve got that attitude, if thats how you see it, you have not
learned this new language from Heaven. Look at French, Spanish, German. Thats
a language you have to learn. This is a new language
you have to learn. It is Our Lady Whos told us this.
What you read on this paper is not what you can understand. If you read it and
you think of this as just too simplistic, youre missing the message. Youre
not learning the language of Our Lady. This message speaks to 7 billion people
on earth, if they saw it today, differently. It speaks to the 7 billion people
as just the same language, if theres no prayer behind it, and they dont enter into it. Theres something new with this, something
being presented to us that has been repeated on this broadcast and in my
writings for thirty plus years, that has never happened before. And Our Lady
said that, that these words that people will pass of as simplistic have more to
them, in power and grace, only if you can comprehend them. And you cannot comprehend
them without prayer. Well, I can read
that. Thats just simple English or simple Croatian. No. Theyre not words
on paper. Theyre beyond that. And if youre not getting that out of that, then
you havent entered anywhere into Medjugorje in understanding of what its
about.
So, what do we look at Christmas?
Mainly, the Holy Family, that Jesus entered in between these two pillars, that
in Poem of the Man-God, Jesus says that, I didnt even miss Heaven because I had the two pillars of Mary and Joseph.
And so, who is Joseph? Of all the titles Our Lady has that the Church has
given, the last was given May 5, 1917. Thats over a hundred years ago. This is
2018 headed toward 2019. Of all the litanies and all the titles, what do you
think the last title was given by the Church? And they said this is the last
title they were giving to Her, at that time. It was, Our Lady, Queen of Peace.
God lays the soil out, ploughs it, plants the seed in it, for it to grow. So,
Fatima grew Our Ladys importance in the world, predicting World War II,
predicting World War I would end, and many other things, adding the Fatima
prayer. O my Jesus, forgive us our sins.
Save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those who
are in most need of His Mercy. Why? Because we have so much assailing us
from satan. We dont even have the wisdom or the
awareness when satan is getting into our thoughts.
hes normal in our day throughout the day.
So, when you see the Church doing
something, you know theyre planning something in the future. There was a
decree, May 1, 2013, by Pope Francis,
In the first decree of the liturgical nature of his pontificate, Pope
Francis decided that St. Joseph should be added to the Eucharistic prayers 2,
3, and 4 as they appear in the third typical addition of the Roman Missal,
after the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
What, is this for now? No. Its for the future. You know, Vickas
got a book. Its all about the life of Our Lady. What does that mean. What was
it that She told Vicka? And also,
besides Vicka, Ivanka has stories about Our Lady.
What do you think its going to be about? I can tell you strongly what I feel
like it will be about. Its going to be about Her, the Virgin Mary, and Joseph,
things weve never heard about, things weve never seen about. Why? What are we
thirsting for? Family. Whats the problem in the family? Whos the cause of a
lot of strife that comes up? We can look at different writings, different
private revelations, such as The Poem of the Man-God, that sheds light
on what are the problems in the family.
In the volume, Poem of the
Man-God, not the new versions, but the old one, of Maria Valtorta, is a title, number 37. You can look this up. The
First Working Lessons to Jesus. Jesus said, and this is paraphrased,
Joseph was the head of the familyhis authority was undisputed and
indisputable.
Our Lady and Jesus submitted
themselves willingly. Josephs words were their little law. There was no
discussion, no oppositions.
Do we have this in the family? Is
the husband able to exercise those things? Everythings a witness.
So, how many families live this
way? How many people really understand this? How many people will adopt this
into their families? Well, Joseph was
almost sinless, even though he was born with original sin, not like the
Virgin Mary. No. This is a lesson. And this is what youre going to probably
hear mostly about in the writings of Ivanka and Vicka,
because the most holy way of living is in the family. And we have people
exercising authority as the wife and as the husband, with nobody at the
headship teaching obedience. Authority is God-given, and ones got to be
receiving that authority and reciprocating obedience to that. How do you teach
your children to be obedient and follow authority if youre competing with your
husband for authority or domineering him on certain questions, or completely
dominating him because you think hes an idiot or whatever you want to think,
or hes not qualified. Hes qualified, and Ive heard
people we talk to, married couples that weve counseled that, once the wife
learned to follow the husband and to come underneath his authority, that the
wife was amazed at how much wisdom came out of him. And your obedience to that
draws that wisdom out. But if you suffocate it, it never is exposed, and its
your punishment because youre bucking it all the time. And hes busy trying to
make you come into line with what hes giving direction for the family. You
say, Well, my husband wont do that.
It still doesnt excuse you.
And I know theres a lot of good
wives out there. Theyve done everything they can. Theyre trying to live the
wifehood theyre supposed to, but it is on the womans fault. Well, how can I
contradict what I just said? Because it was his mother. If hes a wreck of a
husband, it came still from the mother, that who he marries, if hes messed up,
that wife may be there for his salvation, and she has to
live that. And she may be working perfectly with that. But shes got to cancel the
sins of the lack of motherhood of what raised her husband and put those bad
things in him. You disagree with this?
Lets go to the older volumes,
volume one, Poem of the Man-God by Maria Valtorta,
number 27, the title, The Census Edict. And Im giving you this for those who
have The Poem of the Man-God, that you can look this up. Go to page 132
and listen to this. If you object to me about the perfect wife, she has to be that way to mitigate the damage that through her
husband had come from the wife of his dad, his mother.
First, what Our Lady says, I want
to paraphrase this, because this is a shocking statement. Our Lady said that,
Many marriages break up [because wives are not] kindness, pity and
solace to their husbands.
To go through the sentence, and I
think its very important to go through it to understand who Joseph is and who
Our Lady is. The Poem of the Man-God says, quote, But I wish This is Our Lady, remember, speaking,
But I wish to draw the attention of wives to one point. Too many
marriages break up through the fault of [the woman]
I didnt say that. I know that.
Ive experience this through the cognition of 32 years counseling people,
writing How to Change Your Husband, Whose Opinion is Right? And The
Painful Truth, that we discovered these things through the messages .
marriages break up through the fault of [the woman], who does not
possess that love which is everything
And then Our Lady lists these
things,
kindness, pity, solace to their husbands
And then Our Lady says this,
The physical suffering that lies heavy on [a woman] does not lie
heavily on [the man]
Wow. And there is more physical
suffering for the women. They are the weaker gender. And that was done in the
Garden of Eden. Our Lady continues,
But all the moral worries do
In other words, lay on the man.
necessitates of work, decisions to be taken, responsibilities before
the established authorities and ones own family
And Our Lady pauses for a moment,
and She says,
oh! How many things weigh on man! And how much comfort he also needs.
And yet, a womans selfishness is such that she adds the weight of useless and
sometimes unfair complaints to the burden of her tired, disheartened, worried
husband
These are the words, in The Poem
of the Man-God, and many people follow this around the world, and many more
will in the future. Many private revelations are rejected in the beginning, and
these are just fresh from the 40s and 50s. But in time, as people read these,
believe in them, become priests, bishops, youll see this thing validated.
Right now, the Church says we can read them, just dont declare them
supernatural. So, lets dont do that. But its wisdom, and its Biblical, and its good teachings, and it will be approved in the future
as private revelations from Jesus. The Church hasnt done that yet because its
not ready.
Picking up what I just said,
disheartened, worried husband. And all this because she is selfish. She
does not love. Love is not the satisfaction of ones senses and utility
In yesterdays message, December 25th,
Our Lady says,
My presence is a sign of love
Thats what She just said. Love is not the satisfaction of ones
senses and utility. And the message continues yesterday,
I am with
you to protect you and lead you towards eternity
Going back to The Poem of the
Man-God,
To love is to satisfy him whom we love, beyond senses and utility,
giving him the help he needs so that he may always be
able to keep his wings open to the skies of hope and peace.
We have so many stories, so many
real-life cognitions of people that have been difficult husbands, where their
wives did walk right, did try to love, did do that. They didnt know it until
they came here. One such I counseled over the years. I finally met the husband.
He would bring his wife here, stay in a hotel, didnt want anything about
religion. When he came to my office, he was very hard, very cold, very solid
against anything religious. And I talked to him as a friend. He melted a little
bit. Not a lot, but just a little bit. I talked man-to-man to him. I told him
what marriage was about and what would happen as a result of that. The wife had
changed everything. Instead of battling him, she was walking with him, serving
him, doing everything. And I told her, You
may be put on this life just for his salvation, because he didnt even
accept God. This went on for years. Little by little, he changed. Then hes on
his deathbed, and what happened? He converted. A beautiful story of the labor
of the woman loving, supporting somebody who had been injured, probably by the
other woman that raised him, his mother.
You may be put in this life just
for the salvation of the person you marry. Likewise, sometimes the husband for
the woman. But youve got to put her in a position. You have authority. Its
not easy when the woman wants to usurp your authority. But anyway, after he died,
she put his picture on the mantle. When I recollect, she told me every time she
passes him on the mantle, that You have
my back. And shes in peace, because hes in eternal peace. And this is
what Our Lady said yesterday.
I am with you to protect you and lead you towards eternity
Wow. And then we have Jakov gave a message yesterday. But that ends in a
different way in the message in what Our Lady says in leading you to something
else, which ties all this together, which comes back to St. Joseph, comes back
to the husband. Why did She say, on the same day, two different things, lead
you to or lead you towards in both messages? Listen carefully. Ill read the
first one, and then well read Jakovs message
yesterday that was also given.
December 25th says,
My presence is a sign of love here while I am with you to
protect you and lead you towards eternity
Listen carefully to Jakovs message toward the end.
[JOAN]
Our Ladys December 25, 2018 annual
message to the world through Jakov Colo:
Dear children, on this day of grace, I am calling you to
love. Little children, God loves you immeasurably and that is why, little
children, full of trust and without looking back and without fear, completely
surrender your hearts to Him so that God may fill them with His love. Do not be
afraid to believe in His love and mercy, because His love is stronger than
every one of your weaknesses and fears. Therefore, my children, full of love in
your hearts, trust in Jesus and say your yes to Him, because He is the only
way which leads you to the Eternal Father.
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
Did you hear that?
say your
yes to Him, because He is the only way which leads you to the Eternal Father.
And the other 25th
message that day:
lead you towards eternity
Do you think Our Lady did that by mistake. Oh, I forgot
what I said. I want to reemphasize the other message versus the other? No.
Shes saying something about fatherhood. She wants us to understand that we
have a Father, a Heavenly Father. You have an earthly father. The father of the
husband, his authority, is from God, and when you disobey that, when he says
that I want this to happen, not that you have to judge everything and question
everything, but you come in harmony with that so the kids can come in harmony
because youre giving an example that you follow the leader of the family. It
doesnt matter if he doesnt read the Bible. It doesnt matter he knows these
things. Youre doing a Biblical teaching when you follow your husbands wants.
Is he going to be selfish? He might be. But youre still teaching the children
and witnessing to them to obey, which, when you tell them something, they will
obey.
But we have too many wives
objecting to their husband, child-centered, helicopter moms, who are doing
great damage. Mary never did that to Joseph. Never. And look Who She is. Shes
so exalted in Heaven, Shes so high, Shes so above
everybody, and yet, She put Herself underneath the man, the husband. And God
reinforces that. The angel came to Our Lady, and later, once they became
betrothed, the angel comes to Joseph. Why? Because the authority changed to
Joseph, and Mary was the follow him and his guidance. She didnt say, Joseph, Im not going to pay attention. Im
the Virgin. Im the one the angel came to. No. She submitted to that,
willingly, because Josephs word was their little law. Whos their? That word their refers to
Jesus and Mary. God submitted Himself to a pure, human man. Why? Because he
carries Gods authority, and authority does not always have to be right. It has to be obeyed. If its not a great decision, maybe its a
60% decision, fruit from obedience makes it 100% fruit, and
also into your childrens hearts, because they learn to be centered
around the husband, centered around the father. And that brings unity, the
capability of being unified, and if anything breaks open, the husband, or the
father, can bring peace to the situation, even if hes not a perfect peacemaker.
You teach that.
You say, Well, my husbands a drunk. Well, you go tell your kids that, and
you keep doing that. Hes sorry. Hes a
drunk. Go ahead and live divorce in your family. Because Ronald Reagan,
and Ive said this before, he himself, his daddy, was a drunk, a dead drunk,
changing from one job, moving out of five or six houses a year. But the wife
made the difference. She trained little Ronnie to always respect him, always to
love your dad, and she always obeyed him. So, heres a broken, messed-up man
that Ronald Reagan came in as a teenager, seeing him in the snow, freezing to
death in front of the house passed out. He was so disappointed. But this man
came out whole, because the understanding of who the father was
and his authority was drilled in Ronald Reagan that he became a whole man
because of that.
So, you want to highlight the
negatives? You want to demean him no matter what he is? Its to your demise and
your childrens demise. Thats the power of the perspective the woman gives to
her children. You should never condemn your husband. You should never talk him
down. You should never bring him low no matter what he does, because then you
make your children go to that same low degree. And if hes a drunk, you say, Your fathers desire is something good for yall. He has a weakness. Its a problem. We should look
over that. God will take care of us. You are here because of your father. This
is good, and hes blessed.
And thats what Jakovs
message says:
Do not be afraid to believe in His love and mercy
So, grade A+ for your father, grade
F- for your father. And Jakovs message:
Do not be afraid to believe in His love and mercy, because
His love [Gods, the Father] is stronger than every one of your weaknesses
Our Lady didnt say, His love is
stronger than your weaknesses. She said, His love is stronger than every one Every single one,
in other words, of your weaknesses and fears
Therefore, my children, full of love in your hearts, trust
in Jesus and say your yes to Him
You say yes to your Father,
Heavenly Father, and you say yes to your husband, the father of the family, and
the children will say yes to you, and through that unity, you can bring God to
them because they see how you forgive, they see how you live with him even with
defects or perfect. And so, thats why Our Lady said, Ill paraphrase again, in
Poem of the Man-God, that
many marriages break up because wives are not kindness, pity, solace to
their husbands
Youre not there to give them a report
card. Youre there to grade them, Nothing
is by chance. Your father is who we have, and we are to praise him and honor him.
Thats your teachings. Thats your healing.
In The
Poem of the Man-God, in Volume One again, page 73, it talks about who Joseph
was besides what we all know about the Protector of Christians families, of workers,
etc. and of the dying, married couples, and workmen, all these things. But Our Lady
says this about Joseph, who
Of all the people in the world consecrated to the service of God, has consecrated
himself as he did.
Did you hear that? That all the consecrated
in the world have never consecrated themselves as Joseph did himself to the service
of God. And She goes on and says this, that he:
accepted everything, foregoing everything, bearing everything, fulfilling
everything with quickness, with a cheerful mind and a constant humor
And She ends with this:
There was no one like him.
And so, we started the broadcast that
Francis has added St. Joseph, and I think were going to be learning a lot of new
things about Joseph. Why? Because we need this for the women to understand how Our
Lady reacted to St. Joseph, who She was the superior Being in Heaven, even today,
and yet She put Herself completely under him as the voice of God for Her, obediently.
And bigger than that, that Jesus Christ Himself, binding Himself to this foster
father. These are amazing things if you enter into them.
And Our Lady said there is no one like him.
So, we know many things are happening.
We know March 18th is coming up, right around the corner. What happens?
Mirjana has a special apparition, her annual apparition. What do we know about that?
Its Mirjanas birthday? No big deal. Our Lady has never given her a salutation.
She has Marija and perhaps the other visionaries, but
not Mirjana, because the date, March 18th, on her birthday, is not why
She chose that for her annual apparition, but that we will know in the future a
reason for that. Somethings going to happen on that date. Why is that important?
Because the feast of St. Joseph is March 19th! The eve of March 19th
is March 18th, which is a vigil for St. Josephs feast day.
So, weve got Our Ladys birthday, and
weve got this, its going to be even bigger, because of the need for the father,
the need of the woman to understand what a father is, even if hes not perfect,
is to be dealt with as if he is perfect. Youre not excused. Youre supposed to
be kind. Youre supposed to have pity. Youre supposed to be giving consolation
to him. There are so many lessons about the family because everything comes through
it. God Himself came through the family. God Himself could have made Jesus a grown
man. He did Adam that way. Why did He do this? Because of the witness of Mary and
Joseph.
Theres something really amazing in the Gospel of Matthew in the Bible. Theres two things that happen. Ones in Matthew, as I just said.
The other is in Luke. And in the Gospel of Matthew, it traces Jesus genealogy back
to Abraham, through the line of Joseph through the line of David. Why is that important?
Well, lets look at the Gospel of Luke, where Luke traces Jesus genealogy back
to Adam through the line of Mary as a son of God. Our Ladys the second Eve. Jesus
is the second Adam. But Joseph is not part of the genetics of Jesus, but his DNA
is there, because hes out of the line of David. All these things tell us something,
tells us something about family. How does it speak to you?
March 2, 2016, Our Lady says:
My Son has always been in the Father. By being born on
earth He brought the divine and from me received the human. With Him the word
came among us
If some of this is over your head or
maybe not that interesting, look at the break up of the family. Look how snide things
are in the family. Look at the youth. Look at the kids. Look at the babies. Ive
seen, recently, little children so rebellious to their parents. They dont even
know how to raise children anymore. Its really scary.
And theyre scared to hurt their feelings. Theyre making and raising up little
snowflakes. The culture has always had the peer pressure of adults if a childs
doing something wrong. They would catch it from an adult by the virtue of an adult
telling a child to do something and he doesnt, society always provided the right
to correct that. Thats always been that way. Its only in the last one or two generations
thats erasing. Dont you dare touch my child.
Theres something wrong with this.
Hillary Clinton, for a purpose of a
lie, said a truth and wrote a book called, It Takes a Village to Raise a Child.
In Africa, the whole village was responsible for rearing up the children. And weve
got hands-off. This is a big sin. This is a big wrong.
So, weve got children thats untouchable.
Weve forgotten about authority. Weve thrown these things away. We dont believe
it anymore, to our demise. You cannot raise your children
by yourself. When theyre out of sight, you want to make sure theyre corrected.
Theres an English proverb thats common
law in England. It says this, quote:
Every home is a castle
The king has a castle, and he has a
real castle, but the peasant doesnt. But the peasant in his little shack, that
is called a castle. This proverb means that. Its defining where everybody resides
is a castle, be it a peasants home, middle class, serf, whatever you might be.
Every home is a castle. Though the winds of Heaven blow through it
What does that mean? It defines it by
the next statement.
officers of the state cannot enter.
Theres something sacred in the castle
of the king. Theres something sacred in the house of a peasant. And what is that?
Authority. When you come underneath somebodys house, that authority rests on whoever
is the head of the household. And you abide by that by going in there. This is not
understood by anybody now, and its rejected to the demise of the whole culture.
And thats what Our Ladys trying to teach us. Weve forgotten order.
If Im visiting, and Im at somebodys
house, they ask me what would I like, what I want to do.
I say, Its your choice. You decide. I dont come in there and take charge. They
may be trying to be kind, but I want to do what they do in their house, because
I dont have the authority. They do. And I comply with that.
I landed in Moscow. Two groups are there.
They begin to fight over me. They said, Who
do you want to go with? I said, Yall have to be together and decide. I didnt have the
authority to decide or put in the middle. And they worked it out. And I abided where
they wanted me to go. This is the way it works.
Every home is a castle. Though the winds of Heaven blow through it, officers
of the state cannot enter.
I think its King Henry. You know what
he said? He said, I do not have the authority,
as king, to go to a peasants house and cross his threshold without his permission.
In other words, once I go in that house, all my kingly power is vanquished by the
authority of the peasant inside who heads his family. This is sacred, and when respected,
fruit comes from it. Disrespect it, no fruit comes from it. And you open the house
to the devil. And thats why this common law proverb says not even the officers
of the state can enter into a house.
So, its clear, the father is the king
of his castle. Where theres a king, therell be a queen. If theres no king, theres
no queen. You heard him yourself. Our Lady said, as I quoted earlier, the woman
bears the heavier physical sufferings, but the father, the man in the house, bears
the moral sufferings in the family.
So, the mother teaches obedience. The
father imprints the children, in Gods design of authority, with morals. How does
that work? There was a study performed that said, out of all families, when the
mothers went to church, less than half of those would continue to go to church.
But if the father went, the study showed, that if he only went to church with the
children, almost 100% of the kids continued to go to church. This was a profound
study because it shows and proves that youre imprinted with morals stronger by
the man, the father, than by the mother.
So, it was with Joseph that He learned
many of His lessons, and His Hands were in wood, and one of those lessons, being
taught to be a carpenter as a trade, Jesus also died with His Hands in the wood.
[SONG: IT WASNT HIS CHILD]
He was Her man. She was his wife. Late one winter night, he knelt by Her as
She gave birth. But it wasnt his Child. It wasnt his Child.
And still he took Him as his own. As he watched Him grow, he brought Him joy.
He loved that Boy. It wasnt his Child. It wasnt his Child.
And like a father,
he was strong and kind and good. And I believe he gave his best. But it wasnt easy
for him, but he did all he could. His Son was different from the rest. It wasnt
his Child. It wasnt his Child.
And soon the Boy became a Man, took His fathers hand. And soon the world
would all know why it wasnt his Child. It wasnt his Child.
And like His father,
he was strong and kind and good. And I believe He gave His best. But it wasnt easy
for Him, but He did all He could. He grew up with His hands in wood. And He died
with His hands in wood.
He was Her man. She was his wife. Late one winter night, he knelt by Her as
She gave birth. It wasnt his Child. He was Gods Child.
[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]
This man, Joseph, is needed today, just
as Our Lady has come for 37 years in apparitions to show us what mother is, that
through Her, were going to learn about Joseph and who he is.
Jesus knew who he was. When He was going
down Via Dolorosa to die, Joseph of Arimathea, the Pharisee, came to Him and said,
Dont go to Jerusalem. And its amazing
in The Poem of the Man-God what Jesus told him. He kindly rebuked him. He
said, Thats not what Joseph would say.
Josephs heart was broken, but he perfectly filled the will of God. And Jesus tells
Joseph of Arimathea that
He [Jesus foster father Joseph] would not have advised Me to be cowardly
In other words, he would say, Go on to Via Dolorosa. Joseph would say
that.
So, basically, Joseph instilled in Jesus,
by what He told us, Jesus, that He was instilled by what Joseph said, not to be
cowardly. Go into the ambush of the Crucifixion.
Thats a lesson for all of us to learn,
because people say, I dont want to get in
the middle of a situation. Jesus, show me where He didnt get in the middle
of something. When there was something proposed to Him, or there was something that
came before Him, He went in the middle of it, and He didnt take sides. What He
did, He did what was right. Its not about getting in the middle of a situation
and taking sides. Its about getting in the middle of a situation that you have
a responsibility to and decide what is right. And what is right can be looked at
what Jesus said in The Poem of the Man-God, to be good requires five things:
order, perseverance, patience, humility, and charity. So, to bring order, always,
authority has to be there. You dont go to issues to decide
something. You go by authority. Thats how you resolve it. Whats right, through
authority. So, you get in the middle of the situation, where is the authority, who
has the authority, and bring order to that! And therefore, you have the capability
of bringing unity.
And Jesus continues saying what Joseph,
His foster father, would say,
But he would have spoken the words that he used to utter when anything painful
weighed heavily upon us [the Holy Family]
And then He says the prayer that Joseph
taught Jesus as a child growing up into a man, quote:
Let us raise our spirits. We shall meet the yes
of God, and we shall forget that it is through men who grieves us. And let us do whatever is burdensome as if the Most High presented
it to us. In this way, we shall sanctify also the least
things, and God will love us.
That was the prayer. And Jesus added:
Oh, he would have said, so also to comfort Me, to suffer the deepest sorrows.
And thats how he comforted us. This
man Joseph is going to come into our future even more through Medjugorje, because
its the third part of the Holy Family that needs work on to show the exchange from
the wife to the husband, the husband to the wife, and the couple to the children.
One exercising authority, one obeying it, and the children looking up to both of these to be followed, a holy way of living that we have
desecrated through usurping authority of God and through selfishness. And it has
become a tragedy for the world. Contemplate these things, follow Our Lady, follow
St. Joseph, and it will lead to Jesus.
We wish you Our Lady. We love you.
Goodbye.
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