Jn 7:52) and indeed, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” (cf. Of Nazareth it was said, “No prophet is to rise” (cf. After returning to his own country, he led a hidden life in the tiny and obscure village of Nazareth in Galilee, far from Bethlehem, his ancestral town, and from Jerusalem and the Temple. To protect Jesus from Herod, Joseph dwelt as a foreigner in Egypt (cf. In the Temple, forty days after Jesus’ birth, Joseph and Mary offered their child to the Lord and listened with amazement to Simeon’s prophecy concerning Jesus and his Mother (cf. 2:19-20), was to establish a relationship. As we know, for ancient peoples, to give a name to a person or to a thing, as Adam did in the account in the Book of Genesis (cf. Joseph had the courage to become the legal father of Jesus, to whom he gave the name revealed by the angel: “You shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” ( Mt 1:21). Mt 2:1-12), who represented respectively the people of Israel and the pagan peoples. He witnessed the adoration of the shepherds (cf. After a long and tiring journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, he beheld the birth of the Messiah in a stable, since “there was no place for them” elsewhere (cf. Lk 2:22.27.39) and through four dreams (cf. He was a “just man” ( Mt 1:19), ever ready to carry out God’s will as revealed to him in the Law (cf. We know that Joseph was a lowly carpenter (cf. Matthew and Luke, the two Evangelists who speak most of Joseph, tell us very little, yet enough for us to appreciate what sort of father he was, and the mission entrusted to him by God’s providence. WITH A FATHER’S HEART: that is how Joseph loved Jesus, whom all four Gospels refer to as “the son of Joseph”.

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