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Saint Joseph: Perpetual Adorer

In profound adoration he [St. Joseph] united keynotes of his adoration. No saint ever vibrated with
himself to the special grace of each one of the a more ardent faith or bowed down in deeper humil-
events in the life of Jesus. He adored our Lord in His ity; no angel ever glistened with brighter purity; and
hidden life and in His Passion and Death; he adored as for his love, neither saint nor angel ever has or ever
in advance the Eucharistic Christ in His tabernacles: will come within range of his burning charity which
there was nothing expressed itself so
that our Lord could fully in devotedness.
hide from Saint Jo- Because his faith
seph. Aside from the was so strong, Jo-
Blessed Virgin, Saint seph’s mind and
Joseph was the first heart bowed in
and most perfect perfect adoration.
adorer of our Lord. Imitate his faith as
How greatly the you kneel before
Word Incarnate was the humble Christ
glorified by the ador- annihilated in the
ation of Mary and Jo- Eucharist. Pierce the
seph as they atoned veil which covers
for the indifference this furnace of love
and ingratitude of and adore the hidden
His creatures! God. At the same
St. Joseph joined time respect the veil
with Mary in ador- of love and make the
ation and united him- immolation of your
self to Christ, Whose mind and heart your
heart surged with most beautiful hom-
sentiments of ador- age of faith.
ation, love and praise Among the
for the Father and of graces which Jesus
charity for men. gave to His foster-
Saint Joseph’s father — and He
adoration kept pace flooded him with the
with every stage of our Lord’s life, drawing upon graces attached to every one of His mysteries — is
the grace, the spirit, and the virtue of each mystery. that special to an adorer of the Blessed Sacrament.
In the Incarnation he adored the self-annihilation That is the one we must ask of St. Joseph. Have
of the Son of God; at Bethlehem, the poverty; at confidence, strong confidence in him. Take him as
Nazareth, the silence, the apparent weakness, the the patron and the model of your life of adoration.
obedience, and all the other virtues of Christ. He From close union with this holy adorer I shall
knew them well and he grasped clearly the reason learn to adore our Lord and to live in intimacy with
why Christ practiced them — for the love and glory Him. I shall then be the Joseph of the Eucharist as
of His Heavenly Father. he was the Joseph of Nazareth. v
Faith, humility, purity, and love — these were the Saint Peter Julian Eymard