Ite Ad Joseph!

Previously, we discussed some of the benefits of making St Joseph an important figure in our lives. Honestly though, why is this? Why Saint Joseph rather than one of the female saints? After all, we are women trying to regain our lost femininity. We are trying to regain our true selves and fulfill our vocation as women. Why should we look to a man, even if he is a saint, to help us attain this elevated state? How is it that he could be of more help to us than a woman saint?

The answer couldn’t be more simple.

St Joseph lived with Our Lady. He lived with her who chose not Eve’s path of false womanhood, but the path of true womanhood. He lived with her who not only followed the path of true womanhood, but is the perfection of womanhood. He lived with her who embodied everything that each woman is called to be in bearing and grace, in knowledge and humility, in compassion, kindness, strength, prudence and Prayer. In the quickening of the hearts of others and inspiring them to virtue, in bringing culture and civilization. In a word, in living to the full; sanity and sanctity.

Saint Joseph lived with the New Eve. He loved and served her. As her chaste spouse he witnessed her fulfill her feminine vocation unerringly. He knows more than any other person what a true woman is. He knows her demeanor and bearing, her thoughts free of the entanglements of the Fall, and the virtues she should possess. He is one heart and mind with the perfect woman!

He wills to aid us in our quest of fighting the old Eve and putting on the new. He wills that we should be true and holy women! With his intimate knowledge of the perfect woman, Our Lady, he will shape and mold us into true images of her. True Marian apparitions!

Any words of mine regarding this glorious saint are horribly inadequate. I will have to let the saints do the talking for me…

O, what pure love the virgin spouses had for each other! More than Adam and Eve in the early days of their innocence, Joseph and Mary were the delight of the Lord, the ecstasy of angels in the humble home of Nazareth. Nazareth was similar to Eden in the first days of creation: everything was holy, everything was innocent, everything was beautiful! – Blessed Bartolo Longo

He who knew the holiness, innocence and beauty of the New Eden in Nazareth, wants to aid us in regaining it. He wants to help us win back our dignity and desires this for us as much as do his holy spouse and foster Son.

Just as Mary by her motherhood of the Saviour became the mother of us all, so too does Joseph as the earthly father of Jesus and virginal spouse of Mary, become our father. He led, protected, provided for and loved Jesus and Mary, perfectly! He feels the same towards us and desires to help us if we but call upon him!

Saint Joseph, with the love and generosity with which he guarded Jesus, so too will he guard your soul, and as he defended him from Herod, so will he defend your soul from the fiercest Herod: the devil! All the care that the Patriarch St. Joseph has for Jesus, he has for you and will always help you with his patronage. He will free you from the persecution of the wicked and proud Herod, and will not allow your heart to be estranged from Jesus. Ite ad Joseph! Go to Joseph with extreme confidence, because I do not remember having asked anything from St. Joseph, without having obtained it readily. – St Pio of Pietrelcina

Give yourself to him as a loving child, confident that he will work great wonders in your soul and lead you safely to authentic feminine regeneration and ultimately to Heaven. Ite ad Joseph, dear friends!