Daily Readings and Homily - 2025-05-01 - Fr. Joseph
EWTN
[{'start': '3.280', 'end': '6.680', 'text': 'A reading from the letter of St. Paul to'}, {'start': '5.600', 'end': '9.679', 'text': 'the'}, {'start': '6.680', 'end': '12.320', 'text': 'Colossians. Brothers and sisters, over'}, {'start': '9.679', 'end': '14.719', 'text': 'all these things, put on love, that is'}, {'start': '12.320', 'end': '17.199', 'text': 'the bond of perfection, and let the'}, {'start': '14.719', 'end': '20.160', 'text': 'peace of Christ control your hearts, the'}, {'start': '17.199', 'end': '23.160', 'text': 'peace into which you were also called in'}, {'start': '20.160', 'end': '25.840', 'text': 'one body, and be'}, {'start': '23.160', 'end': '28.000', 'text': 'thankful. And whatever you do in word or'}, {'start': '25.840', 'end': '30.720', 'text': 'in deed, do everything in the name of'}, {'start': '28.000', 'end': '33.000', 'text': 'the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the'}, {'start': '30.720', 'end': '36.559', 'text': 'Father through'}, {'start': '33.000', 'end': '39.520', 'text': 'him. Whatever you do, do from the heart'}, {'start': '36.559', 'end': '41.760', 'text': 'as for the Lord and not for men, knowing'}, {'start': '39.520', 'end': '43.480', 'text': 'that you will receive from the Lord the'}, {'start': '41.760', 'end': '46.160', 'text': 'due payment of the'}, {'start': '43.480', 'end': '49.160', 'text': 'inheritance. Be slaves of the Lord'}, {'start': '46.160', 'end': '49.160', 'text': 'Christ.'}, {'start': '59.760', 'end': '65.519', 'text': 'Lord give success to the work of our'}, {'start': '62.000', 'end': '68.000', 'text': 'hands. Lord give success to the work of'}, {'start': '65.519', 'end': '69.760', 'text': 'our hands. Before the mountains were'}, {'start': '68.000', 'end': '72.360', 'text': 'begotten and the earth and the world'}, {'start': '69.760', 'end': '76.000', 'text': 'were brought forth from everlasting to'}, {'start': '72.360', 'end': '76.000', 'text': 'everlasting. You are'}, {'start': '76.520', 'end': '82.400', 'text': 'God of our hands. You turned them back'}, {'start': '80.080', 'end': '85.360', 'text': 'to dust, saying, "Return, O children of'}, {'start': '82.400', 'end': '88.240', 'text': 'men, for a thousand years in your sight,'}, {'start': '85.360', 'end': '92.479', 'text': 'or as yesterday, now that it is passed,'}, {'start': '88.240', 'end': '95.439', 'text': 'are as a watch of the night."'}, {'start': '92.479', 'end': '97.520', 'text': 'The work of our hands. Teach us to'}, {'start': '95.439', 'end': '100.159', 'text': 'number our days are right, that we may'}, {'start': '97.520', 'end': '103.439', 'text': 'gain wisdom of heart. Return, O Lord,'}, {'start': '100.159', 'end': '105.840', 'text': 'how long? Have pity on your servants.'}, {'start': '103.439', 'end': '107.119', 'text': 'Lord, give success to the work of our'}, {'start': '105.840', 'end': '109.520', 'text': 'hands.'}, {'start': '107.119', 'end': '111.680', 'text': 'Fill us at daybreak with your kindness'}, {'start': '109.520', 'end': '114.399', 'text': 'that we may shout with joy and gladness'}, {'start': '111.680', 'end': '116.880', 'text': 'all our days. Let your work be seen by'}, {'start': '114.399', 'end': '119.880', 'text': 'your servants and your glory by their'}, {'start': '116.880', 'end': '119.880', 'text': 'children.'}, {'start': '141.959', 'end': '144.959', 'text': 'Hallelujah.'}, {'start': '145.640', 'end': '148.640', 'text': 'Hallelujah.'}, {'start': '151.800', 'end': '155.800', 'text': 'Halleluah. Hallelujah.'}, {'start': '158.120', 'end': '161.120', 'text': 'Hallelujah.'}, {'start': '164.120', 'end': '168.959', 'text': 'Halleluah. Blessed be the'}, {'start': '170.440', 'end': '174.080', 'text': 'Lord. God'}, {'start': '180.200', 'end': '184.200', 'text': 'has hallelujah.'}, {'start': '186.680', 'end': '189.680', 'text': 'Hallelujah.'}, {'start': '195.560', 'end': '199.560', 'text': 'Hallelu doinois.'}, {'start': '215.920', 'end': '221.080', 'text': 'Jesus came to his native place and'}, {'start': '218.319', 'end': '223.519', 'text': 'taught the people in their'}, {'start': '221.080', 'end': '226.480', 'text': 'synagogue. They were astonished and'}, {'start': '223.519', 'end': '229.840', 'text': 'said, "Where did this man get such'}, {'start': '226.480', 'end': '231.480', 'text': 'wisdom and mighty deeds? Is he not the'}, {'start': '229.840', 'end': '235.920', 'text': "carpenter's"}, {'start': '231.480', 'end': '238.840', 'text': 'son? Is not his mother named Mary? and'}, {'start': '235.920', 'end': '242.760', 'text': 'his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and'}, {'start': '238.840', 'end': '246.680', 'text': 'Judas, are not his sisters all with'}, {'start': '242.760', 'end': '250.280', 'text': 'us? Where did this man get all'}, {'start': '246.680', 'end': '254.319', 'text': 'this?" And they took offense at'}, {'start': '250.280', 'end': '255.959', 'text': 'him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet'}, {'start': '254.319', 'end': '258.959', 'text': 'is not without'}, {'start': '255.959', 'end': '260.280', 'text': 'honor except in his native place and in'}, {'start': '258.959', 'end': '262.960', 'text': 'his own'}, {'start': '260.280', 'end': '265.120', 'text': 'house. And he did not work many mighty'}, {'start': '262.960', 'end': '268.120', 'text': 'deeds there because of their lack of'}, {'start': '265.120', 'end': '268.120', 'text': 'faith.'}, {'start': '287.400', 'end': '292.639', 'text': 'Tomorrow, May 2nd, is the 38th'}, {'start': '290.400', 'end': '294.759', 'text': 'anniversary of the founding of our'}, {'start': '292.639', 'end': '298.720', 'text': 'community by Mother'}, {'start': '294.759', 'end': '300.800', 'text': 'Angelica, 1987.'}, {'start': '298.720', 'end': '302.120', 'text': 'And in the early days, brother Leo will'}, {'start': '300.800', 'end': '305.000', 'text': 'remember'}, {'start': '302.120', 'end': '309.240', 'text': 'this. We needed a place for our'}, {'start': '305.000', 'end': '312.320', 'text': 'classrooms, for our offices, for our'}, {'start': '309.240', 'end': '315.479', 'text': 'library. And uh so we decided we would'}, {'start': '312.320', 'end': '318.800', 'text': "turn to St. Joseph that he'd help us"}, {'start': '315.479', 'end': '320.680', 'text': 'build what is now our house of studies,'}, {'start': '318.800', 'end': '323.759', 'text': 'St. Joseph House of'}, {'start': '320.680', 'end': '327.000', 'text': 'Studies. So we prayed to St. Joseph. He'}, {'start': '323.759', 'end': '330.400', 'text': 'actually placed a brick in front of his'}, {'start': '327.000', 'end': '333.280', 'text': 'statue there at the friy, prayed to St.'}, {'start': '330.400', 'end': '335.240', 'text': 'Joseph. And one night, it was an'}, {'start': '333.280', 'end': '338.800', 'text': 'evening. We were having our evening meal'}, {'start': '335.240', 'end': '342.479', 'text': 'and the phone rings and I said, "Father,'}, {'start': '338.800', 'end': '345.280', 'text': 'it\'s for you." I was a community servant'}, {'start': '342.479', 'end': '347.120', 'text': "at that time. And so I'm talking to a"}, {'start': '345.280', 'end': '348.720', 'text': "man from Kentucky I've never talked to"}, {'start': '347.120', 'end': '350.240', 'text': 'before.'}, {'start': '348.720', 'end': '353.240', 'text': "He said, 'I saw that you wanted to"}, {'start': '350.240', 'end': '355.520', 'text': 'build, you know, a place for your'}, {'start': '353.240', 'end': '358.160', 'text': "classrooms. Said, 'Yes, we hope someday"}, {'start': '355.520', 'end': '359.960', 'text': 'in the future to be able to do that. He'}, {'start': '358.160', 'end': '365.440', 'text': "said, 'I want to build"}, {'start': '359.960', 'end': '367.440', 'text': 'it. And so he did. And uh an interesting'}, {'start': '365.440', 'end': '370.000', 'text': 'point about that, we put that brick that'}, {'start': '367.440', 'end': '371.600', 'text': 'we had in front of St. Joseph right near'}, {'start': '370.000', 'end': '374.000', 'text': 'the front door. If you go to the house'}, {'start': '371.600', 'end': '375.360', 'text': 'of studies today, look to the right.'}, {'start': '374.000', 'end': '377.360', 'text': "There's one brick that doesn't really"}, {'start': '375.360', 'end': '380.160', 'text': "match the rest. That's the one we had in"}, {'start': '377.360', 'end': '382.240', 'text': 'front of St. Joseph and it stands out as'}, {'start': '380.160', 'end': '385.840', 'text': 'always a reminder of his intercession'}, {'start': '382.240', 'end': '388.720', 'text': 'for us. But an interesting point about'}, {'start': '385.840', 'end': '391.840', 'text': 'that house of studies which has really'}, {'start': '388.720', 'end': '395.000', 'text': 'been a blessing to us for we can do so'}, {'start': '391.840', 'end': '398.680', 'text': 'much of our our work and have our'}, {'start': '395.000', 'end': '402.160', 'text': 'library is that uh the man who funded'}, {'start': '398.680', 'end': '403.880', 'text': 'it. May he rest in peace. John Pat'}, {'start': '402.160', 'end': '407.400', 'text': 'Clemens was his'}, {'start': '403.880', 'end': '411.680', 'text': 'name that he was in the insulation'}, {'start': '407.400', 'end': '413.639', 'text': 'business and so he made his money in'}, {'start': '411.680', 'end': '416.080', 'text': 'selling insulation for'}, {'start': '413.639', 'end': '418.160', 'text': 'homes. So when it was being built he'}, {'start': '416.080', 'end': '420.000', 'text': 'sent down a semi load of his best'}, {'start': '418.160', 'end': '423.360', 'text': 'insulation. When you go inside there'}, {'start': '420.000', 'end': '426.160', 'text': "it's really quiet. It's really quiet."}, {'start': '423.360', 'end': '432.080', 'text': 'And we think of St. H St. Joseph as the'}, {'start': '426.160', 'end': '434.400', 'text': 'quiet man and uh the silent man. And so'}, {'start': '432.080', 'end': '437.639', 'text': 'he teaches us how to live in silence and'}, {'start': '434.400', 'end': '441.120', 'text': 'in quiet to have that deep interior life'}, {'start': '437.639', 'end': '445.560', 'text': 'then by which we can carry out the work'}, {'start': '441.120', 'end': '447.400', 'text': 'that the Lord has given us to do in our'}, {'start': '445.560', 'end': '450.400', 'text': 'time. And'}, {'start': '447.400', 'end': '453.440', 'text': 'uh so we all have our own particular'}, {'start': '450.400', 'end': '455.880', 'text': 'work and sometimes we look at work, you'}, {'start': '453.440', 'end': '459.319', 'text': 'know, as a necessary'}, {'start': '455.880', 'end': '462.319', 'text': 'evil or something I got to'}, {'start': '459.319', 'end': '466.080', 'text': "do or as one bumper sticker says, I'd"}, {'start': '462.319', 'end': '467.919', 'text': 'rather be fishing, you know. So we have'}, {'start': '466.080', 'end': '469.400', 'text': 'our own particular things we would'}, {'start': '467.919', 'end': '472.800', 'text': 'rather be'}, {'start': '469.400', 'end': '476.080', 'text': "doing. But today's feast and the example"}, {'start': '472.800', 'end': '478.599', 'text': 'of St. Joseph reminds us that this is'}, {'start': '476.080', 'end': '482.039', 'text': 'part of our path to our'}, {'start': '478.599', 'end': '484.280', 'text': 'sanctification and that in fact we are'}, {'start': '482.039', 'end': '487.919', 'text': 'enriched by'}, {'start': '484.280', 'end': '490.720', 'text': "working. It wouldn't be good for us not"}, {'start': '487.919', 'end': '493.520', 'text': 'to be engaged in doing some work.'}, {'start': '490.720', 'end': '495.919', 'text': "There's so many things that we learn in"}, {'start': '493.520', 'end': '498.280', 'text': 'the process of developing our skills, of'}, {'start': '495.919', 'end': '500.720', 'text': 'relating with other people at the'}, {'start': '498.280', 'end': '503.360', 'text': 'workplace, of the challenges that come'}, {'start': '500.720', 'end': '504.840', 'text': 'along, of the offerings we can make when'}, {'start': '503.360', 'end': '507.280', 'text': 'our work is'}, {'start': '504.840', 'end': '509.400', 'text': 'difficult. And so, this is part of our'}, {'start': '507.280', 'end': '511.399', 'text': 'means of'}, {'start': '509.400', 'end': '514.640', 'text': 'sanctification. You know, a few years'}, {'start': '511.399', 'end': '516.479', 'text': 'ago, we recorded a program called St.'}, {'start': '514.640', 'end': '520.479', 'text': 'Joseph the Worker, and you can actually,'}, {'start': '516.479', 'end': '523.200', 'text': "it'll be on the air at 3:00 today. and"}, {'start': '520.479', 'end': '526.160', 'text': "we went to uh a friend's house where he"}, {'start': '523.200', 'end': '527.880', 'text': 'had a workshop and we used that as our'}, {'start': '526.160', 'end': '530.399', 'text': 'place where we did the'}, {'start': '527.880', 'end': '533.279', 'text': "recordings. But Steve Bulmont, who's a"}, {'start': '530.399', 'end': '536.399', 'text': 'director of our studio operations, he'}, {'start': '533.279', 'end': '538.240', 'text': 'has a good sense of humor. And so if you'}, {'start': '536.399', 'end': '540.040', 'text': 'watch that show today or you can find it'}, {'start': '538.240', 'end': '542.080', 'text': 'free on demand as'}, {'start': '540.040', 'end': '543.360', 'text': "well, you're going to see something in"}, {'start': '542.080', 'end': '546.160', 'text': 'the background you probably never'}, {'start': '543.360', 'end': '548.240', 'text': 'noticed if you saw the program.'}, {'start': '546.160', 'end': '551.680', 'text': 'And so there was a sign there that said'}, {'start': '548.240', 'end': '553.440', 'text': "one way and it's got an arrow. And when"}, {'start': '551.680', 'end': '556.959', 'text': 'we went in there, it was vertical, but'}, {'start': '553.440', 'end': '560.560', 'text': 'he turned it this way. One way. We want'}, {'start': '556.959', 'end': '562.480', 'text': 'to go one way, which is up to heaven.'}, {'start': '560.560', 'end': '564.000', 'text': 'But then he also there was a pitchfork'}, {'start': '562.480', 'end': '565.920', 'text': 'in there. So he put that right next to'}, {'start': '564.000', 'end': '569.760', 'text': "it. So there's the alternative, you"}, {'start': '565.920', 'end': '574.399', 'text': 'know, the pitchfork going down or one'}, {'start': '569.760', 'end': '576.080', 'text': 'way going up. And so our work is to be'}, {'start': '574.399', 'end': '578.920', 'text': 'part of that.'}, {'start': '576.080', 'end': '581.959', 'text': 'service to the Lord, our service to the'}, {'start': '578.920', 'end': '584.560', 'text': 'others. And St. Paul brings that out in'}, {'start': '581.959', 'end': '586.880', 'text': "today's first reading from his letter to"}, {'start': '584.560', 'end': '589.240', 'text': 'the Colossians about how we are to do'}, {'start': '586.880', 'end': '591.920', 'text': 'our work. And he himself was a tent'}, {'start': '589.240', 'end': '594.920', 'text': 'maker. And he wrote to the Thessalonians'}, {'start': '591.920', 'end': '598.480', 'text': "that if one doesn't work, they shouldn't"}, {'start': '594.920', 'end': '600.360', 'text': 'eat. So he himself was engaged in the'}, {'start': '598.480', 'end': '603.440', 'text': 'trade of tent'}, {'start': '600.360', 'end': '606.839', 'text': 'making. And he tells us how we are to'}, {'start': '603.440', 'end': '610.519', 'text': 'work in his letter to the'}, {'start': '606.839', 'end': '613.800', 'text': 'Colossians. He says, "Whatever you'}, {'start': '610.519', 'end': '616.440', 'text': 'do, do from the'}, {'start': '613.800', 'end': '620.640', 'text': 'heart as for the'}, {'start': '616.440', 'end': '623.079', 'text': 'Lord and not for men."'}, {'start': '620.640', 'end': '625.880', 'text': 'So whatever our work is'}, {'start': '623.079', 'end': '629.959', 'text': "today, let's have a higher"}, {'start': '625.880', 'end': '632.760', 'text': 'motivation not just to get through the'}, {'start': '629.959', 'end': '635.680', 'text': 'day, but to have a higher'}, {'start': '632.760', 'end': '639.720', 'text': 'motivation that has eternal consequences'}, {'start': '635.680', 'end': '642.760', 'text': 'that sanctifies us. Do it for the'}, {'start': '639.720', 'end': '645.839', 'text': 'Lord. Do it from the'}, {'start': '642.760', 'end': '648.800', 'text': 'heart. And earlier he wrote over all'}, {'start': '645.839', 'end': '651.320', 'text': 'these things, put on love.'}, {'start': '648.800', 'end': '654.959', 'text': 'And he calls it the bond of'}, {'start': '651.320', 'end': '657.440', 'text': "perfection. It's a bond. So this love"}, {'start': '654.959', 'end': '658.959', 'text': 'unites us with God. Unite unites us with'}, {'start': '657.440', 'end': '660.120', 'text': "others. It's the one thing we'll carry"}, {'start': '658.959', 'end': '663.560', 'text': 'with us to'}, {'start': '660.120', 'end': '667.600', 'text': 'eternity. The work we do with'}, {'start': '663.560', 'end': '669.920', 'text': "love. It's a bond with God with others."}, {'start': '667.600', 'end': '672.240', 'text': "It's a bond of perfection. It leads us"}, {'start': '669.920', 'end': '674.480', 'text': 'to perfection. When we do our work and'}, {'start': '672.240', 'end': '677.200', 'text': "we do it with love, it doesn't matter"}, {'start': '674.480', 'end': '678.880', 'text': 'how menial it is.'}, {'start': '677.200', 'end': '681.000', 'text': 'We can always add some of our own'}, {'start': '678.880', 'end': '684.720', 'text': 'creativity, our own'}, {'start': '681.000', 'end': '686.120', 'text': 'ingenuity to it. That we are called to'}, {'start': '684.720', 'end': '689.839', 'text': 'be'}, {'start': '686.120', 'end': '691.240', 'text': 'co-creators with God. God is the creator'}, {'start': '689.839', 'end': '694.720', 'text': 'of all that'}, {'start': '691.240', 'end': '698.000', 'text': 'exists. And yet he calls us to do our'}, {'start': '694.720', 'end': '700.200', 'text': 'work, participate in his work, in our'}, {'start': '698.000', 'end': '703.160', 'text': 'own creativity, which we'}, {'start': '700.200', 'end': '707.440', 'text': 'have, and to develop those'}, {'start': '703.160', 'end': '710.640', 'text': 'skills and so on. Our psalm today from'}, {'start': '707.440', 'end': '713.079', 'text': 'Psalm 90, you know that psalm concludes'}, {'start': '710.640', 'end': '716.040', 'text': 'saying twice the same'}, {'start': '713.079', 'end': '718.959', 'text': 'phrase. Give success to the work of our'}, {'start': '716.040', 'end': '720.959', 'text': 'hands. Give success to the work of our'}, {'start': '718.959', 'end': '724.279', 'text': 'hands.'}, {'start': '720.959', 'end': '727.959', 'text': "When you begin your day, it's a good"}, {'start': '724.279', 'end': '731.519', 'text': 'practice to put before the Lord in your'}, {'start': '727.959', 'end': '733.800', 'text': 'prayer what you have to do that day, the'}, {'start': '731.519', 'end': '736.600', 'text': "work that's before"}, {'start': '733.800', 'end': '739.040', 'text': 'you and asking for his'}, {'start': '736.600', 'end': '742.240', 'text': 'blessing. Maybe even using that phrase'}, {'start': '739.040', 'end': '745.680', 'text': 'from Psalm 90, give success to the work'}, {'start': '742.240', 'end': '747.760', 'text': 'of my hands. Give success to the work of'}, {'start': '745.680', 'end': '751.440', 'text': 'my hands today. And the Lord will bless'}, {'start': '747.760', 'end': '753.920', 'text': 'that. He will bless your work. You will'}, {'start': '751.440', 'end': '757.160', 'text': "find that when God's blessing is on your"}, {'start': '753.920', 'end': '760.720', 'text': 'work, that things just seem to work'}, {'start': '757.160', 'end': '762.040', 'text': "together more easily. We're spinning our"}, {'start': '760.720', 'end': '764.639', 'text': 'wheels'}, {'start': '762.040', 'end': '766.639', 'text': "less. And we're seeing God's providence"}, {'start': '764.639', 'end': '770.800', 'text': 'as we carry out the work that he has'}, {'start': '766.639', 'end': '772.200', 'text': "given us to do. And we're doing it for a"}, {'start': '770.800', 'end': '774.760', 'text': 'higher'}, {'start': '772.200', 'end': '777.760', 'text': 'purpose where our Lord'}, {'start': '774.760', 'end': '779.920', 'text': 'himself, we had Matthew chapter 13'}, {'start': '777.760', 'end': '782.040', 'text': 'today, and they said, "Well, isn\'t this'}, {'start': '779.920', 'end': '784.839', 'text': "the carpenter's"}, {'start': '782.040', 'end': '788.040', 'text': 'son? Where did he get all of'}, {'start': '784.839', 'end': '791.760', 'text': 'this? Where do these mighty deeds come'}, {'start': '788.040', 'end': '795.920', 'text': 'from?" In Mark 6, they asked the'}, {'start': '791.760', 'end': '798.079', 'text': 'question, "Isn\'t this the carpenter?"'}, {'start': '795.920', 'end': '801.120', 'text': 'So probably both things were being said'}, {'start': '798.079', 'end': '804.200', 'text': 'at this event. He was indeed the'}, {'start': '801.120', 'end': '808.120', 'text': "carpenter's son, Joseph's"}, {'start': '804.200', 'end': '811.120', 'text': 'son, but he also was a carpenter'}, {'start': '808.120', 'end': '813.000', 'text': 'himself. In fact, St. Justin, who lived'}, {'start': '811.120', 'end': '815.880', 'text': 'right after the time of the'}, {'start': '813.000', 'end': '818.200', 'text': 'apostles, in his dialogue with'}, {'start': '815.880', 'end': '821.519', 'text': 'Trifo, he said'}, {'start': '818.200', 'end': '824.720', 'text': 'this. He wrote this. When Jesus came to'}, {'start': '821.519', 'end': '827.240', 'text': 'the Jordan, he was considered to be the'}, {'start': '824.720', 'end': '830.600', 'text': 'son of Joseph the'}, {'start': '827.240', 'end': '832.760', 'text': 'carpenter. And he was deemed a'}, {'start': '830.600', 'end': '834.920', 'text': 'carpenter when among'}, {'start': '832.760', 'end': '837.959', 'text': 'men making'}, {'start': '834.920', 'end': '840.800', 'text': 'plows and'}, {'start': '837.959', 'end': '844.680', 'text': 'yolks by which he taught the symbols of'}, {'start': '840.800', 'end': '847.120', 'text': 'justice and work. Plows and'}, {'start': '844.680', 'end': '849.440', 'text': 'yolks that should call to mind, right?'}, {'start': '847.120', 'end': '851.160', 'text': 'Some of the words of our Lord. keep your'}, {'start': '849.440', 'end': '854.399', 'text': 'hand on the'}, {'start': '851.160', 'end': '855.800', 'text': 'plow. Take my yoke upon you and learn'}, {'start': '854.399', 'end': '859.920', 'text': 'from'}, {'start': '855.800', 'end': '863.199', 'text': 'me. And those who were carpenters, teon'}, {'start': '859.920', 'end': '866.720', 'text': "in the Greek, actually they didn't just"}, {'start': '863.199', 'end': '868.959', 'text': 'work with wood, they worked with iron,'}, {'start': '866.720', 'end': '873.199', 'text': 'they worked with stone, they they were'}, {'start': '868.959', 'end': '877.279', 'text': 'builders as well. And we see that in the'}, {'start': '873.199', 'end': '880.160', 'text': 'shroud of Turin, he was a strong man.'}, {'start': '877.279', 'end': '883.120', 'text': 'He would have had calloused hands and a'}, {'start': '880.160', 'end': '886.240', 'text': 'strong back in his work as a a'}, {'start': '883.120', 'end': '888.720', 'text': 'bluecollar worker as we would say today.'}, {'start': '886.240', 'end': '889.800', 'text': 'And yet he spends, you know, 30 years of'}, {'start': '888.720', 'end': '893.440', 'text': 'his hidden'}, {'start': '889.800', 'end': '898.000', 'text': 'life. He learns from Joseph this trade.'}, {'start': '893.440', 'end': '900.680', 'text': "He's fully God, but he's fully man. And"}, {'start': '898.000', 'end': '903.199', 'text': 'so he also grew in wisdom and'}, {'start': '900.680', 'end': '907.040', 'text': 'understanding. And perhaps in some ways'}, {'start': '903.199', 'end': '909.079', 'text': 'as he wielded the axe or as he, you'}, {'start': '907.040', 'end': '912.120', 'text': 'know, had blows with the'}, {'start': '909.079', 'end': '914.959', 'text': 'hammer that in some way he resembled'}, {'start': '912.120', 'end': '917.279', 'text': 'Joseph as sons often do. They resemble'}, {'start': '914.959', 'end': '919.040', 'text': 'their fathers, the way they walk, the'}, {'start': '917.279', 'end': '920.040', 'text': 'way they talk, the phrases that they'}, {'start': '919.040', 'end': '922.800', 'text': 'will'}, {'start': '920.040', 'end': '925.959', 'text': 'use. And in his teaching in the gospel,'}, {'start': '922.800', 'end': '930.720', 'text': 'he found no contradiction in his father'}, {'start': '925.959', 'end': '932.079', 'text': 'Joseph. I love this uh phrase or this'}, {'start': '930.720', 'end': '935.040', 'text': 'little'}, {'start': '932.079', 'end': '938.120', 'text': 'uh saying that says about the quality of'}, {'start': '935.040', 'end': '940.959', 'text': 'virtuous men and how they'}, {'start': '938.120', 'end': '944.199', 'text': 'work. 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And the virtuous man'}, {'start': '970.079', 'end': '976.240', 'text': 'is happy to reveal his love for God and'}, {'start': '972.320', 'end': '979.839', 'text': 'for others by his quiet service and'}, {'start': '976.240', 'end': '982.480', 'text': 'unaclaimed efforts.'}, {'start': '979.839', 'end': '984.399', 'text': 'Jesus washed the feet, wash feet, and'}, {'start': '982.480', 'end': '988.040', 'text': 'told the apostles that he had just given'}, {'start': '984.399', 'end': '991.399', 'text': 'them an example of how they were to'}, {'start': '988.040', 'end': '994.079', 'text': "act. Jesus witnessed Joseph's silent"}, {'start': '991.399', 'end': '995.560', 'text': 'service as he was growing in age and'}, {'start': '994.079', 'end': '998.399', 'text': 'wisdom in'}, {'start': '995.560', 'end': '999.720', 'text': 'Nazareth. The gospel Jesus taught found'}, {'start': '998.399', 'end': '1004.639', 'text': 'no'}, {'start': '999.720', 'end': '1005.720', 'text': 'contradiction in his virgin father.'}, {'start': '1004.639', 'end': '1009.079', 'text': 'And so'}, {'start': '1005.720', 'end': '1013.240', 'text': 'through our labors and through our'}, {'start': '1009.079', 'end': '1016.079', 'text': 'work, we also are serving'}, {'start': '1013.240', 'end': '1018.279', 'text': "others. You know, there's sometimes a"}, {'start': '1016.079', 'end': '1022.199', 'text': 'sentiment, boy, I wish I could win the'}, {'start': '1018.279', 'end': '1025.240', 'text': 'lottery. Why? Because then I could be'}, {'start': '1022.199', 'end': '1028.799', 'text': 'served by everybody'}, {'start': '1025.240', 'end': '1033.600', 'text': "else. We've lost our direction if that's"}, {'start': '1028.799', 'end': '1036.400', 'text': 'our total goal in life. No.'}, {'start': '1033.600', 'end': '1039.679', 'text': 'The Lord himself came not to be served'}, {'start': '1036.400', 'end': '1041.839', 'text': 'but to serve. And so our work is a way'}, {'start': '1039.679', 'end': '1043.839', 'text': 'in which we serve, which we give of'}, {'start': '1041.839', 'end': '1046.959', 'text': "ourselves. There's an element of the"}, {'start': '1043.839', 'end': '1048.200', 'text': "cross in it at times. But that's how we"}, {'start': '1046.959', 'end': '1050.559', 'text': 'prove our'}, {'start': '1048.200', 'end': '1053.760', 'text': "love. It's how we prove our love for"}, {'start': '1050.559', 'end': '1055.320', 'text': 'God, our love for others. Love is proven'}, {'start': '1053.760', 'end': '1057.440', 'text': 'in'}, {'start': '1055.320', 'end': '1060.480', 'text': "sacrifice. When that's there, we know"}, {'start': '1057.440', 'end': '1061.559', 'text': "love's authentic."}, {'start': '1060.480', 'end': '1065.120', 'text': 'And'}, {'start': '1061.559', 'end': '1067.360', 'text': 'finally, we know, however, that work is'}, {'start': '1065.120', 'end': '1068.440', 'text': "not an end in itself. It's not the goal"}, {'start': '1067.360', 'end': '1071.840', 'text': 'of our'}, {'start': '1068.440', 'end': '1074.720', 'text': 'life. And we think of the Sabbath rest.'}, {'start': '1071.840', 'end': '1077.600', 'text': 'St. Joseph would have led the immaculate'}, {'start': '1074.720', 'end': '1080.039', 'text': 'Virgin Mary and the eternal son of God'}, {'start': '1077.600', 'end': '1082.760', 'text': 'in prayer on the'}, {'start': '1080.039', 'end': '1085.200', 'text': 'Sabbath. And we should observe the'}, {'start': '1082.760', 'end': '1087.640', 'text': "Sabbath. It's often forgotten today."}, {'start': '1085.200', 'end': '1092.480', 'text': "It's just another day. It's a"}, {'start': '1087.640', 'end': '1092.480', 'text': "weekend. but to observe it as the Lord's"}, {'start': '1092.520', 'end': '1098.720', 'text': "day. That everything doesn't depend on"}, {'start': '1096.200', 'end': '1103.480', 'text': "me. Every day just doesn't have to be"}, {'start': '1098.720', 'end': '1106.160', 'text': 'all these efforts of work and'}, {'start': '1103.480', 'end': '1108.360', 'text': "labor, but that we're taking a Sabbath"}, {'start': '1106.160', 'end': '1111.120', 'text': 'rest when we have the'}, {'start': '1108.360', 'end': '1113.760', 'text': 'opportunity to spend time with God,'}, {'start': '1111.120', 'end': '1116.240', 'text': 'realizing it all depends on him. It all'}, {'start': '1113.760', 'end': '1119.400', 'text': 'relies on him. give success to the work'}, {'start': '1116.240', 'end': '1122.880', 'text': 'of our hands during the work'}, {'start': '1119.400', 'end': '1125.160', 'text': 'week but resting with the Lord and'}, {'start': '1122.880', 'end': '1128.400', 'text': 'taking that Sabbath'}, {'start': '1125.160', 'end': '1130.640', 'text': 'rest. Joseph is a master of the interior'}, {'start': '1128.400', 'end': '1133.280', 'text': 'life St. Terresa Vavala called him. She'}, {'start': '1130.640', 'end': '1134.280', 'text': 'named so many of her first monasteries'}, {'start': '1133.280', 'end': '1138.000', 'text': 'of the'}, {'start': '1134.280', 'end': '1140.600', 'text': 'reform after St. Joseph.'}, {'start': '1138.000', 'end': '1144.400', 'text': 'May he teach us how to grow in that'}, {'start': '1140.600', 'end': '1147.480', 'text': 'interiority that interior life and also'}, {'start': '1144.400', 'end': '1149.960', 'text': 'how to carry our work out'}, {'start': '1147.480', 'end': '1153.559', 'text': 'well as St. Paul'}, {'start': '1149.960', 'end': '1158.039', 'text': 'says, "Doing it from the'}, {'start': '1153.559', 'end': '1161.640', 'text': 'heart as for the Lord and not for'}, {'start': '1158.039', 'end': '1163.840', 'text': 'men." That it will be part of our own'}, {'start': '1161.640', 'end': '1167.200', 'text': 'sanctification, part of the work that we'}, {'start': '1163.840', 'end': '1171.039', 'text': 'carry out that will lead us to the'}, {'start': '1167.200', 'end': '1174.640', 'text': 'eternal reward in heaven. Well done,'}, {'start': '1171.039', 'end': '1179.240', 'text': 'thou good and s uh faithful servant.'}, {'start': '1174.640', 'end': '1179.240', 'text': 'Enter into the joy of the Lord.'}]