We recognized our attachments to broken ways of understanding love. At the root of sin is doubt in the goodness of God's plan for our lives, and we need teachers who show us the way.
We enter into union with Jesus in Baptism and through Him adoption by the Father. Because we enter through our humanity, we therefore also become an adopted child of Joseph and Mary. This process of transformation or healing conversion helps us leave behind our doubt and our attachment to our limited understanding of what is truly good for us.
In this new identity in Jesus, we have Joseph as a father and Mary as a mother. Mary nurtures us in her motherhood and Joseph leads and protects us in his fatherhood. This is our one and true identity.
Then one should receive Communion in this state of grace, and receive Jesus in his body, blood, soul, and divinity with spirit and mind reflecting on how Joseph received Jesus in that moment in his appearance in our world at the Nativity. From this moment forward, you will be led by St. Joseph in a new way. Entrust yourself to him. Place yourself in his presence often and ask him to take care of you--whatever your needs are--as a child would ask of a father.
From Consecration to St. Joseph (pp. 163 - 165)
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| "Joseph and Jesus" by Kathy Lawrence |
What do you hope for as a fruit of this consecration?
- Growth in purity of heart and humility and all the other virtues that Saint Joseph so perfectly modeled in his everyday family life.
- Strengthening and sanctification of all my Christian friendships.
What intention do you have to place trustingly in the hands of your father, Saint Joseph?
The healing conversion of my family.
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