Saint Joseph is our teacher not so much for the words he did not pronounce, but for the listening he knows how to give to our words and our requests.
His silence, we have said many times, is not mutism, but it is a silence illuminated by radiations with many facets that reflect luminous colours, almost indications of paths to follow in order to walk on the right path of holiness, fullness of evangelical beatitude.
The journey of the Exodus of the Jewish people from the slavery of Egypt to the promised land was also completed by the Holy Family.
At the beginning of this appointment, a cordial greeting to everyone: to the listeners, to those who listen to us at home or on the street returning from work, to those who are preparing dinner, but, in particular, to those who are afflicted by the many adversity, adversities that start from poor health, from the internal discomforts of depression, from economic problems, from unemployment and also from a dark horizon that generates intolerance towards life itself.
So a particularly cordial greeting to those who are angry with existence itself, to those who have not yet found a strong and valid reason to live. An ideal hug to those who feel useless, alone, to those without friends.
We invoke Saint Joseph, he lived his existence alongside Jesus as the "shadow of the Father", the eternal Father who from eternity had chosen him to be his human substitute in the growth of Jesus in a history of humanity that becomes history of salvation.
Let us take from the great reserves of spirituality left by the heritage of the saints the famous ones and those simple and generous people that we perhaps have known in our lives, as were many of our virtuous and honest relatives, and let us let a prayer for our families echo in our spirit, so that they are a reflection of the family of Nazareth; that light that internally illuminates the path of the soul.