Ave Maria Meditations
Beyond all doubt Jesus in heaven not only does not refuse Saint Joseph those marks of familiarity and reverence which He gave on earth as a son to a father, but He adds to them an increase.
If you compare him to the whole Church of Christ, is he not the special and chosen being by whom and under whom the Lord was introduced into the world with becoming dignity?
If all the faithful, then, are debtors to the Virgin Mother for being made worthy through her to receive the Redeemer; so, next to that Virgin Mother, do we not owe to Saint Joseph special homage and veneration?
Saint Bernardine of Sienna
