![]() ![]() When our blessed Lady found the Child Jesus in the temple, in the midst of the doctors, she thus addressed Him: ‘Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing’ and the holy evangelist adds that Jesus was subject to them, that is, that He was subject to Joseph as He was to Mary. So long as the mysterious cloud was over the Saint of saints, men called Jesus the Son of Joseph and the carpenter's Son. Heaven designated him as being the only one worthy of such a treasure: the rod he held in his hand in the temple suddenly produced a flower, as though it were a literal fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaias: ‘There shall come forth a rod from the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.’ The rich pretenders to an alliance with Mary were set aside and Joseph was espoused to the Virgin of the house of David, by a union which surpassed in love and purity everything the angels themselves had ever witnessed.īut he was not only chosen to the glory of having to protect the Mother of the Incarnate Word he was also called to exercise an adopted paternity over the very Son of God. This privileged mortal was Joseph, the most chaste of men. Until such time as the Son of Mary were recognized as the Son of God, His Mother’s honour had need of a protector: some man, therefore, was to be called to the high dignity of being Mary’s spouse. The Son of God, when about to descend upon this earth to assume our human nature, would have a Mother this Mother could not be other than the purest of Virgins, and her divine maternity was not to impair her incomparable virginity. In a few days hence, the august mystery of the Incarnation will demand our fervent adoration: who could better prepare us for the grand feast, than he that was both the confidant and thd faithful guardian of the divine secret? To-day , Joseph, the spouse of Mary, the fosterfather of the Son of God, comes to cheer us by his dear presence. ![]() Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virginįrom Dom Guéranger's The Liturgical Year. The featured image is taken from the Nativity by Noel-Niclas Coyel III. I would like to know if you are singing this or any piece I have written. Please download the free sheet music and use it for the glory and honor of the Child Jesus. Imagine being able to turn the lie of your sworn enemy into truth. It is as though in sending Jesus, God is making good on the devil’s empty promise to Adam and Eve. I think this line translates, “that we men might return to and be like God”. ![]() Ut redderet nos homines, Deo et sibi similes. He takes on our flesh that we might be transformed. He is like us in all things except for sin. Though his reign is without end, he lies in a manger. He is born of a mother without the seed of a man. What strikes me most about the text of Puer Natus in Bethlehem are its many contrasts and natural impossibilities. With upwards of 14 chanted verses available, there is room for flexibility in which verses take the polyphonic refrain and, of those, which have the descant. The above video includes the optional descant, but the refrain can also be sung in just three parts: This short piece is a simple embellishment of the refrain “In cordis jubilo” from the well-known chanted melody.
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