{"id":39803,"date":"2020-03-19T18:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=39803"},"modified":"2020-12-08T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:35:35","slug":"the-time-of-st-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-time-of-st-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time of St. Joseph","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ti-spark.ca\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-39806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/St.-Joseph-our-Protector.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/St.-Joseph-our-Protector.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/St.-Joseph-our-Protector-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/St.-Joseph-our-Protector-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/St.-Joseph-our-Protector-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/St.-Joseph-our-Protector-640x800.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>St. Joseph<\/em>, by Tianna (Mallett) Williams<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">each one to his home, and you will leave me alone. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">I have said this to you, so that in me you may have peace. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">In the world you face persecution. But take courage; <br \/>\nI have conquered the world!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">(John 16:32-33)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN<\/strong> the flock of Christ has been deprived of the Sacraments, excluded from the Mass, and scattered outside the folds of her pasture, it may feel like a moment of\u00a0 abandonment\u2014of <em>spiritual fatherhood. <\/em>The prophet Ezekiel spoke of a such time:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered, they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or se<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">ek for them.<\/span> (Ezekiel 34:5-6)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, thousands of priests all over the world are enclosed in their chapels, offering the Mass, praying for their sheep. And yet, the flock remains hungry, crying out for the Bread of Life and the Word of God.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">See, days are coming&#8230; when I will send a famine upon the land: not a hunger for bread, or a thirst for water, but for hearing the word of the Lord. (Amos 8:11)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Jesus, the Great Shepherd, <em>hears the cry of the poor<\/em>. He never abandons His sheep, ever. And thus says the Lord:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock when some of his sheep have been scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. (Ezekiel 34:11-12)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, at the very moment that the faithful have been deprived of their shepherds, <em>Jesus has Himself supplied a spiritual father for this hour<\/em>: St. Joseph.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>THE TIME OF ST. JOSEPH<\/p>\n<p>Recall the maxim that Our Lady is a &#8220;mirror&#8221; of the Church:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>When either is spoken of, the meaning can be understood of both, almost without qualification<\/strong>. \u2014Blessed Isaac of Stella, <em>Liturgy of the Hours<\/em>, Vol. I, pg. 252<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When it came near the time for the birth of Christ, an astonishing &#8220;world-wide&#8221; event took place.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-39827\" style=\"margin: 1px 2px 1px 2px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/holyfamily.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/holyfamily.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/holyfamily-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/holyfamily-640x885.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. (Luke 2:1)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As such, the People of God were <em>forced<\/em> to leave their present circumstances and return to their native homes to be &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/28\/the-great-corralling\/\">registered<\/a>.&#8221; It was in that time of exile that Jesus would be born. Likewise, Our Lady, the &#8220;woman clothed with the sun,&#8221; is once again laboring to give birth to the <em>whole <\/em>Church&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>&#8230;she represents at the same time the whole Church, the People of God of all times, the Church that at all times, with great pain, again gives birth to Christ.<\/strong>\u2014POPE BENEDICT XVI, Castel Gandolfo, Italy, AUG. 23, 2006; Zenit\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As we enter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/07\/the-great-transition\/\"><em>The Great Transition<\/em><\/a>, it is therefore, also, the <em>Time of St. Joseph. <\/em>For it was assigned to him to safeguard and lead Our Lady to the <em>place of birth. <\/em>So too, God has given him this incredible task to lead the Woman-Church to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/15\/the-resurrection-of-the-church\/\">Era of Peace<\/a>. Today is no ordinary commemoration of St. Joseph&#8217;s feast. Lead by the Holy Father in Rome <em>at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/14\/the-vigil-of-sorrows\/\">vigil hour<\/a><\/em>, the entire Church was placed under St. Joseph&#8217;s care\u2014and we will remain so until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/03\/the-day-of-justice\/\">Herod&#8217;s of the world are deposed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, just as Pope Francis began the rosary, I felt a strong inspiration to pen a prayer of consecration to St. Joseph (below). To consecrate <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-39811\" style=\"margin: 1px 4px 1px 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/stjoebaby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/stjoebaby.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/stjoebaby-108x300.jpg 108w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/>simply means to &#8220;set apart&#8221;\u2014to hand over, as it were, your entire self to the other. And why not? Jesus entrusted himself entirely to both St. Joseph and Our Lady. As His Mystical Body, we ought to do as our Head has done. Is it not profound that, with this consecration, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/14\/the-blessed-helpers\/\">to Our Lady<\/a>, you form, as it were, another Holy Family?<\/p>\n<p>Last, before you make this act of consecration, just a word on Joseph himself. He is a profound model for us in these extremely turbulent times as we approach the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/06\/the-great-day-of-light\/\">Eye of the Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was a man of <em>silence<\/em>, even when tribulation and &#8220;threat&#8221; surrounded him. He was a man of <em>contemplation<\/em>, capable of hearing the Lord. He was a man of <em>humility<\/em>, able to accept the Word of God. He was a man of <em>obedience<\/em>, ready to do whatever he was told.<\/p>\n<p>Brothers and sisters, this present crisis is only the beginning. The powerful spirits that are being sent to tempt us at this hour are the <em>antitheseis <\/em>of St. Joseph&#8217;s disposition. The spirit of <em>fear<\/em> would have us enter the noise and panic of the world; the spirit of <em>distraction<\/em> would have us lose our focus on God&#8217;s presence; the spirit of <em>pride<\/em> would have us take matters into our own hands; and the spirit of <em>disobedience<\/em> would have us rebel against God.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;\">Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. (James 4:7)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And here is how to submit yourself to God: <em>imitate St. Joseph<\/em>, encapsulated in the beautiful words of Isaiah. Make this your <em>creed<\/em> to live by in the days to come:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;\">By waiting and by calm you shall be saved,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;\">in quiet and in trust shall be your strength. (Isaiah 30:15)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">ACT OF CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Beloved St. Joseph, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Custodian of Christ, Spouse of the Virgin Mary <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Protector of the Church: <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>I place myself beneath your paternal care. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>As Jesus and Mary entrusted you to protect and guide, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>to feed and safeguard them through <br \/>\nthe Valley of the Shadow of Death, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>I entrust myself to your sacred fatherhood. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Gather me into your loving arms, as you gathered your Holy Family. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Press me to your heart as you pressed your Divine Child; <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>hold me tightly as you held your Virgin Bride; <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>intercede for me and my loved ones <br \/>\nas you prayed for your beloved Family. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Take me, then, as your own child; protect me; <br \/>\nwatch over me; never lose sight of me. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Should I go astray, find me as you did your Divine Son, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>and place me again in your loving care that I may become strong, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>filled with wisdom, and the favor of God rest upon me. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Therefore, I consecrate all that I am and all that I am not <br \/>\ninto your holy hands. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>As you carved and whittled the wood of the earth, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>mold and shape my soul into a perfect reflection of Our Savior. <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>As you rested in the Divine Will, so too, with fatherly love, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>help me to rest and remain always in the Divine Will, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>until we embrace at last in His Eternal Kingdom, <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>now and forever, Amen.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">(composed by Mark Mallett)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-39830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/st.joproetc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/st.joproetc.png 625w, https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/st.joproetc-300x132.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">RELATED READING<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">For more fascinating background on St. Joseph&#8217;s powerful role in the Church, read Fr. 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