Church of Jesus Christ of the Universe

By Mauro

13.12.2025

(translated audio)

As we approach Christmas, I think it is right, in addition to talking about Mary Most Holy, to also try to contemplate St Joseph, who was no minor figure in God’s plan of salvation.

Saint Joseph is defined as ‘the righteous one’, the righteous one par excellence. He was a man like all of us. He was under original sin. He was not like Mary Most Holy, but he was a man to whom God entrusted the care of His Son, the Son of God, and also the care of Mary Most Holy, Spouse of the Holy Spirit and beloved daughter, a creature whom God regarded in a special way.

He was a true Israelite, he followed the Law. Like all Israelites – he told us in a message that we have received[1] – he desired a family, he wanted to give children to God.

I think that St Joseph can be an example for all of us, a figure even closer to us, an example of a man who seeks God, who knows that he came from God and that he must return to God. In this search for God, he is a man who desires to know God and therefore remains open, open inside, open to listening to God’s will. Look, this is a requirement that must also be in each of us, despite all that we know, all that we are familiar with – we may know the Law, the Bible, all the messages of the Queen of Peace – but we must remain open to listening to the voice of God, to the newness of God.

I asked myself, why was St Joseph immediately recognised as ‘the righteous one’? Was it only because he respected the whole Law? There were others who did that. I believe that respecting the Law is the starting point, of course; it is the basis, the foundation to respect the Law, but God saw him as righteous because He saw Joseph’s heart that goes beyond the Law, that seeks God, seeks that love. An example that goes beyond the Law? He does not repudiate Mary, the Law would have ordered him to repudiate Her. And he does other things during his life, but the first one is that he does not repudiate Her, regardless of what the Law says. He recognises a purity in Mary, he is sure that She has not lied; therefore, he does not understand how She can be pregnant and does not repudiate Her. He is not fixated on the Law, he is not fanatical. After all, the Law should be a guideline to follow to avoid doing wrong, but in order to go towards God we have to go beyond the Law.

He is righteous because he questions himself, he questions his own convictions, he tries to put his ideas, even the most holy ones, before the light of God, and he is ready for something new.

These are the essential requirements for God to guide us, and God was able to guide Joseph, Saint Joseph, namely by the Archangel Gabriel. Note that this would be the case for each one of us: open, righteous, ready for new things, available to God’s will, truly offered and abandoned to God, then God guides us and God knows how to guide us. Guided by the Archangel Gabriel, we can already see one requirement that is one of our pillars, can’t we? I have already mentioned others, because being righteous is integrity, being willed to be guided is offering oneself, and being guided by an Archangel is communion. The three cornerstones[2] that we have assumed, that God has given us, have always been valid.

He lives in communion with the Archangels. We know that he did not meet Gabriel only once, in a dream: he guided him when he said, “Take the child and go”[3], they visited the house in Nazareth many times[4]. But Joseph is also a man who lived in communion with Mary Most Holy, with his spouse, the communion between man and woman. How did he contemplate Mary? He was aware that it was something mysterious, something great, but he got involved in that communion.

And I said before: why did he offer himself? He questioned his whole life, he changed his whole life to follow God, and look, he did so even though his whole family and the whole town of Nazareth were against him. Because, perhaps, sometimes we seem to say: “Is it possible that my whole family says I am wrong?” Is it possible that everyone says we are wrong? Mary and Joseph had the whole town against them, everyone, only one person helped them.

He did not have an easy life. He faced trials right from the start. As soon as he said ‘yes’ to the Archangel, the trials began, and in those trials, he could easily have thought: Well, maybe that dream was not so real after all. Who knows if it was the Archangel Gabriel or… If he had gone to a priest, for sure he would have told Joseph that it was a demon and not the Archangel, as happens even today (all those who appear are demons). Instead, it was the Archangel Gabriel.

But in those difficulties, he continued to believe. St Joseph must have had so much faith, so much. If we look at his life, always with reference to the Gospel and not so much and only to our messages, he is a man who knows how to contemplate, who knows how to meditate; he contemplates Mary Most Holy, he contemplates the shepherds when they come to the manger and tell him that an Angel has sent them there. He contemplates them. I imagine how he contemplated the Wise men. I think that we can say, or rather, we should say, that St Joseph also meditated in his heart like Mary Most Holy[5]; he looked, meditated, prayed and was open to God’s will.

Another aspect to contemplate: he finds himself to be the father of his God and the spouse of the Mother of God. And even there he reflects. Saint Joseph is the one who opens the way for us with his originality and, I repeat, he is very similar to us: his originality is close to ours. So, we can say that Jesus, the Redeemer, is to be contemplated as such, the Son of God; Mary Most Holy, Spouse of the Holy Spirit and Co-Redemptrix, is united in a special way to Jesus. But we have to contemplate Joseph as the man who unites himself with redemption and co-redemption, a man who seeks to enter into communion with Mary and Jesus. He does so as a father, as a spouse, and each one of us must do so in our own originality. He is the first man to unite his life to the Redeemer and the Co-Redemptrix, a thing that we must and want to do in every Holy Mass and throughout our lives.

St Joseph is in love with Mary Most Holy, he is in love with Jesus, not only as the Son of God, but just as Mary is in love with him as a woman and Jesus as a child, whom he has seen growing up, whom he has raised, who is his son, humanly speaking. But he also allows himself to be transformed by that love, he does not impose it; a part of that love is, we would say, human. There is nothing wrong with that, and as such he tends to protect, he tends to possess, he finds it difficult to give everything, unlike Jesus and Mary Most Holy. And I think – perhaps I am wrong – that precisely because of this love he had for Mary and Jesus, he was unable to reach beneath the cross, he would not have been able to do so. Sublimating the love he had for Mary and Jesus was too much for him, he would not have been able to bear seeing how they were treated, because they were both treated badly; that is why he died young.

I believe, I am certain, that for me Joseph is greater than the apostles. We often say that the figure of the apostles – we say this of Peter, but it applies to all of them – is beautiful to us because they are men who, after all, know how to reach Heaven, who know how to elevate their humanity, who know how to overcome their limitations and mistakes. For me, Joseph is much more than that. He is an example of how God’s love bends over man and leads him to fulfilment when love for God and the search for God are present. It is a joy for me to know this: a simple man, a carpenter, who was not able to sublimate his love to the point of standing beneath the cross – and add whatever you want to that – but who sincerely loved God, sincerely loved Mary Most Holy and Jesus, and who, in his simplicity, gave his whole life for God’s plans. He did not preach, he did not participate in the public life of Jesus, but he is ‘the righteous one’ par excellence, he is the father of the Church together with Mary.

God was able to entrust the whole work of redemption, of co-redemption, to such a man, and I would also say this work that we are living now, the one of the end of time. It seems to me that this gives everyone a sense of normality, or rather exceptionality, the exceptional in normality, the supernatural in normality, which is what the life of every Christian should be. As I said, Joseph fully lived integrity, offering and communion.

May St Joseph continue to guide us to contemplate Christmas and God’s entire plan for this time in the right way, to contemplate in particular the plan that God has through Mary Most Holy at this time, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

[1] See St Joseph’s message of 18 March 2021 entitled “Mary, the New Woman” published in the book “Towards the New Creation – Vol. VIII, Year 2021”, p. 38

[2] Saint Raphael the Archangel speaks about the three pillars of the Kingdom of God – being immaculate, offering of life and communion – in his message of 11 September 2007, published in the book ‘Beyond the Great Barrier’, chapter 11, p. 206; https://www.lucidellesodo.com/en/libri-books-pdf/122-beyond-the-great-barrier-pdf-version.html

[3] See Mt 2, 13

[4] See note 1

[5] See Lk 2, 19