Dear
Parishioners and Friends,
The
4th sorrow of St. Joseph comes from Luke 2: 34: “…and a sword will
pierce through your own soul.” Simeon prophesied that Our Lady would suffer in
a special way because of her Son. Because Joseph truly loved Mary he would have
felt the sting of this prediction. We all know what is like to suffer because
others are suffering and so St. Joseph felt great compassion whenever his wife
suffered.
But
then came the joy. A few verse after the Simeon prophecy, St. Luke tells us
that Anna spoke of the Christ child “to all who were looking for the redemption
of Jerusalem” (Luke 2: 38). St. Joseph once again realized that his sorrow was
always overshadowed by the joy of what Jesus brings us – salvation. As we see
at the end of Lent, the very suffering and death of Christ – the greatest
sorrow of all – is the instrument of the joy that is eternal.
Prayer: St. Joseph, by the
SORROW when the Lord declared that the soul of Mary would be pierced with a
sword of sorrow, and by thy JOY when holy Simeon added that the Divine Infant
was to be the resurrection of many, obtain for us the grace to have compassion
on the sorrows of Mary, and share in the salvation which Jesus brought to the
earth.
In
Christ,
Msgr.
Baker
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