“For the Most Holy Virgin, these words were the occasion for giving additional praise to God, the source of all that is good.”
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TheimportanceofSaintJosephintheChurchcontrastswiththeinformationthattheGospelstellusabouthim.
WehavesomeinformationabouthislifeduringJesus’childhood,buthelaterdisappearsfromthestories.OnlytheGospelsofMatthewandLukementionhim.
Although,thankstoprivaterevelation,wecanreconstructsomemomentsofhislife.
TheHymnOurLadySangthatConsoledSaintJoseph,Revealedbyan18th-C.Mystic18th-centuryItaliannunServantofGodSisterMariaCeciliaBaijreceivedaparticularrevelationaboutthelifeofSaintJosephthatwaspublishedina book ofthesamename.
Thisworkreceivedan imprimaturandnihilobstat fromtheVatican,officiallydeclaringitfreefromdoctrinalandmoralerrors.
However,likeallprivaterevelation,noCatholicisobligatedtobelieveit,butitcanhelpusliveourfaithmorefully.
Inthisbook,ServantofGodSisterMaríaCeciliaBaijexplainswhatconsoledSaintJosephafteranexhaustingworkday:“Sometimes,whenJosephworkedverystrenuously,
