I have a suggestion: I love to dream and imagine the little house in Nazareth wrapped in the colors of the rainbow. After the flood, God, the Creator of heaven and earth, drew a bow on the heads of Noah and his sons, not to shoot arrows of death, but to make God's own smile shine through colors. In fact, in the rainbow we not only find the harmony of colors, but for those who believe there is the luminous gaze of God.
Bishop Bruno Forte in one of his articles entrusted each color with representing a quality of life. He imagined and identified in white the light of God that envelops everything, illuminates everything and in which everything lives. Jesus affirmed it in his gospel, when he says: "For I live and you will live." A small phrase that pierces the horizon of life and makes our hope solid.
We belong to a living God and He, the living God, belongs to us.
We know that we belong not to a dead idol, with dull eyes, with closed lips, but to a living God, who loves us and from him we have learned that love does not die, rather it makes life eternal.
Let's go back to the colors. In red the human story of Jesus, the son sent by the Father. In yellow-gold the presence of the Holy Spirit, the bond that unites the Father to the Son in love and radiates the splendor of eternity in our time.
Within this harmony of colors, Bishop Bruno Forte wrote in an article that «from the mysterious reality of these colors we can derive the answer to the question that concerns us all when we ask ourselves: “Who will make us capable of loving?”.
The poet Kahlil Gibran helps us with this question when he writes: “When you love, don't say: 'I have God in my heart', but rather say: 'I am in the heart of God'. We become capable of loving only when we discover we are loved by God." Here then is the faith, which made Saint Joseph great, he allowed himself to be led by the voice of God and walked towards the future in his company.
At the threshold of the house in Nazareth these reflections emerge in our soul after centuries of experience of a humanity that is seeking the face of God in life; he also seeks it in the genuine and simple testimony of Joseph and Mary who lived the mystery of love with that charm and transport that came directly from God.
God had entrusted the two holy spouses with a singular, unique and unrepeatable task: for Joseph to be the last and great patriarch with the burden of delivering the Savior to humanity and to Mary the privilege of being the mother of the Son of God, Jesus.