Thursday, December 16, 7:00-9:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Joseph, Mary’s partner,
rarely gets much consideration. He doesn't appear at all in this year's Advent Sunday
lectionary (Year C), which has readings from the Gospels of Luke and John, but
he's there in the Gospel of Matthew and we hear about him in Year A. He is thus
among what I call “the people of Advent,” and it's not just Mary who says
"yes" in the stories of Jesus's beginnings: Joseph has his own
encounter with an angel. We will read from the first and second chapters of the
Gospel of Matthew using lectio divina (slow, meditative reading that moves us into prayer and silence) but also explore some images of
and devotions to St. Joseph.
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| Georges de La Tour, "Joseph the Carpenter" (oil on canvas, ~1642) Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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