THE HOLY FAMILY
DOM GUERANGUER
Speaking the Gospel later of the life of Jesus in Nazareth next to Mary and Joseph, he describes it with these simple words: "I was submissive to them. And his mother kept all these things in her heart, and Jesus grew in wisdom, in age and in grace before God and men. Despite its conciseness, this sacred text contains a luminous vision of order and peace that reveals to our gaze, the authority, submission, dependence and mutual relations of the Sagrada Familia. The holy house of Nazareth is presented to our eyes as the perfect model of the Christian home. Joseph commands there with calm serenity, as the one who is aware that by doing so he does the will of God and speaks on his behalf. He understands that, next to his virginal Wife and his divine Son, he is the smallest; and with all that, his humility makes him, without fear or disturbance, accept his role as head of the Holy Family that God has entrusted to him, and as a good superior, he does not think …More
Beautiful.
"Healthy lesson that we are offered here. God wants him to obey and to be sent according to the role and office of each one, not according to his merits or virtues. In Nazareth, the order of authority and dependence is not exactly the same as that of perfection and holiness. The same usually happens in human society and in the Church itself: if the superior must sometimes respect in the inferior a virtue greater than his own, the inferior always has the obligation to obey in the superior an authority derived from the authority of God itself."
God Himself submitting to His Design.