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Text Box: and so His birth was forgotten. We, today, also tend to forget many things about The Way, and about the many Saints our Lord has provided to us as guides and intercessors over the centuries and millennia. One who is both forgotten and derided is Saint Joseph, the step-father of our Lord, and the most chaste spouse of the Mother of God. Saint Joseph is the only one God the Father desired to be the step-father of His only begotten Son, and Saint Joseph accepted the request of the Father without reservation. Saint Joseph is the only one who was ever requested to defend and protect our Lord, and the only one ever allowed to defend and to protect our Lord. Saint Joseph disrupted his life without hesitation and without reservation, taking his family to Egypt at God’s request, so that God’s Son would be protected from those who sought his death. Then, when Saint Joseph was told it was safe to return, he disrupted his life, again closed down his business, again lost all his customers and business references, and returned his family to the land of David. Who was there at the birth of the Christ; who wrapped the Babe in swaddling clothes; who was the first person to hold our Lord as He was born; who clothed and fed our Lord from the time our Lord was born, and who provided for our Lord’s needs even after his own death? Saint Joseph. And how is Saint Joseph honored in the USA? By having statues of him buried head down in the front yards of houses which people wish to sell quickly and at a high price. Truly, Satan has attacked Saint Joseph just as Satan attacks the Blessed Virgin - for just as pornography attacks the representation of the Blessed Virgin which is in ever woman, so too does this disrespect for the representation of Saint Joseph attack he who is the most trusted servant God has ever had. But not just Saint Joseph is thereby attacked, for in it is also attacked every father.

Text Box: In this, all fathers share, for very few are the fathers who are not forgotten; very few are the children who respect their fathers; and most few are those children who really appreciate what their fathers have done for them and what was required in the doing of it. It is not just the human fathers who are forgotten; it is also the one Heavenly Father who is forgotten. Do you think you are an exception? Perhaps you are, but that is not likely. God’s name is constantly taken in vain in your presence - do you tell the obscene to behave? People you know take what does not belong to them - do you tell them to behave? Immorality is taught in virtually every commercial movie and television program - have you opposed this? Have you made your opposition known to those who make, distribute, and broadcast this trash? God’s babies are being murdered by their mothers and by men and women who call themselves healers - have you made your opposition known to your politicians, or did you vote for the pro-abortion candidate and vote for him because he might put some money in your pocket? Have you recently thought of what you could do to make your Heavenly Father, and your Earthly father, happy, and then done it? Have you ever thanked Saint Joseph? Ref: Phili 4:4-7; John 1:19-28 +

Text Box: though every day is a day of the end of time, for each day surely is part of our individual end of time. To do this we must prepare ourselves every day to receive God, to be with the God, to be acceptable to God. We must show our love of God not just as a feeling, as an emotion, but as obedient servants. It is very important to remember that love of God is found in, founded on, and expressed in, following His will, and in following His will we obtain Charity, the permanent and Divine Love. We all wish to hear those words, “Come share in your Lord’s joy.” (Mat.25:21) However, it is very important for us to remember that the fullness of joy will not enter into all of those who rejoice, for there are many who rejoice without cause, or prematurely. It is those who rejoice upon union with God in Heaven who will receive the fullness of joy. There are things which we do in private which we do not do in public. Some of these are harmless and necessary, such as taking a bath. Other things which we do in private we do not wish others to know we do, for they are evil. In today’s world, Satan has convinced an uncountable number of people that the most degrading of sins can be committed in public and can be freely acknowledged in public, with no adverse effects or results. Thus it is that we hear of celebrities and famous people having children out of wedlock, even to the extent the father is not known. We learn that a leader of a country engaged in licentious sexual relationships; and that when the leader died his wife and his mistress both attended the funeral with their children born of the deceased. Is that the kind of life which prepares one to greet Jesus Christ? No, obviously it is not, for such a life is totally contrary to what Our Lord taught us. So prepare yourselves to greet the Saviour in the Divine Liturgy when we

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