We know little of the life of St. Joseph.
We know, from the offering at the temple that he was a poor man, and we
are told by the Bible that he was an honourable man, who did not wish to see
his betrothed disgraced (The penalty would have been stoning for her). We do know that he was a man who obeyed the
Lord. Each time God spoke to him in
dreams, Joseph immediately followed through.
As he is not mentioned much in the New Testament, it is believed that he
died before Jesus began his public ministry.
We do believe that he must have been a very special man to have been
given the job of being Jesus’ step father.
We pray that we would be like him, obeying the Lord.
Collect: Heavenly
Father, you raised up Yosef to be a step Father to our Lord Yeshuah
haMoshiach. Grant that every father
would be as faithful as Yosef in his sacred responsibility of modeling your
fatherhood to us. This we ask through
the same Yeshuah haMoshiach our Lord,
who called Yosef, “father.” Amen. (white)
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