2024-08-26 00:00:00
This Monday, August 26, at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, Pope Francis received the participants of the XVIII General Chapter of the Oblate Community of Saint Joseph, with whom he shared 3 “dimensions of Saint Joseph” that were essential to their path.
At the beginning of his speech, the Holy Father remembered the founder of the Congregation, Saint Joseph Marello, who was born in Turin, a city in the Piedmont region of Italy. Pope Francis recalled that he was also from that region, especially from the city of Asti.
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Later, he explained 3 dimensions of Saint Joseph, “also important for your religious life and the service you provide in the Church”:
The coming together
First of all, Pope Francis emphasized the importance of knowing how to “root your religious life and religious consecration in daily ‘being’ with Jesus.”
“Let us not deceive ourselves: without him we are not standing, we are none: we all have our weakness and without the Lord to support us we would not be standing.”
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For that reason, he encouraged them to always maintain an intense life of prayer, through participation in the Sacraments, listening to and reflecting on the Word of God, and Eucharistic Adoration, both personal and communal.”
According to the Pontiff, this is how St. Joseph responded to the great gift he had in his home “The Son of God himself made man: to be with him, to listen to him, to speak with him and to share life with him all day. Let’s remember: without Jesus we are not standing!” he said.
He also pointed out that this closeness to Jesus is especially necessary for the apostles with young people: “Young people don’t need us: they need God! And the more we live in his presence, the more we will be able to help them meet him, without unnecessary significance and only their salvation and complete happiness in our hearts.”
Faced with a world where “the inner empty person” prevails, Pope Francis urged them “your hearts, your communities, your religious houses, places where you can feel the warmth of knowing and share with God .” brothers and sisters.”
Paternity
Secondly, he showed the dimension of fatherhood, and he recalled the words written by St. Joseph of Marello to Father Esteban Delaude: “Poor youth, too abandoned and neglectful, a weak generation of growth too left at your own mercy! ” .
The heart of the father is felt here, explained Pope Francis, “who is saddened by the beauty of his children being humiliated by the indifference and indifference of those who, on the contrary, should help them to give themselves the best.”
“And in the same letter he stops to think how unfair and sterile is the attitude of those people who then limit themselves to criticizing this abandoned and disoriented youth.”
According to the Pontiff, the founder of the Community “feels in young people a great potential for good, which only hopes to flourish and bear fruit if it is supported and accompanied by wise, patient and generous instructions.”
For that reason, he invited them to be attentive to the overall welfare of young people, “specifically present with them and their families, experts in the maieutic art of good trainers, wise respect for the times and possibilities of each one.”
Attention to the last one
In conclusion, Pope Francis highlighted “one of the things that attracts the attention of the holy Husband of Mary is the generous faith with which he welcomed into his home and into his life God who, against all expectations, appeared to his a door in the son with a fragile girl, without resorting to criticism.”
In this sense, he emphasized that Joseph knew how to “recognize the real presence of God in his poverty and that he made it his own, even more, he united it with his own.”
In this way, he explained that the least welcome to the least is not to lower the “supposed inferiority,” but to “share with them our own poverty.”
“This is what God teaches us to make himself poor; This is what Saint Joseph Marello taught us, keeping a very special place in his priest’s heart for the children who have the most problems, for the ‘poor young people’, as he liked to say, and this is what he calls the Lord upon us today. ”, said the Holy Father.
Almudena Martínez-Bordiu
I am a graduate in Journalism and Advertising from CEU San Pablo University in Madrid. Specialized in religious information in Spain since 2015. I have been a senior correspondent for ACI Prensa and EWTN Noticias in the Vatican for two years and I am currently a European correspondent based in Spain.
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