ACT OF MAGISTERIUM
Praise and honour to You,
lovable and glorious Saint Joseph
In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Lovable and Glorious Saint Joseph (Pontifical Decree, “Glorious Saint Joseph”, 25/03/2020) is the father of faith in the Baby Jesus, the man chosen by the Father, made strong by his docility, humility and obedience.
Saint Joseph gave rise to Christianity, being the first Christian, the first to have welcomed Christ (Mt 1:21) and become His Guardian.
So it was at the dawn of Christianity, and so it is for the new beginning willed by the Father, where the name of Joseph, united with that of Mary, returns in Her, Maria Giuseppina, chosen by the Almighty Father to give new beginning and fulfilment to His Plan of Love and Redemption, which will come to an end in the eternal Garden (Gen 3:24).
At that time, the Almighty Father, in choosing Saint Joseph, once again gave an example of the logic of Heaven. At that time, in fact, many were the men who could have aspired – and did – to be at Mary’s side: men who, by human logic, might have been considered more suited and better educated. But once again the Father, in His infinite Goodness, chose ‘the’ heart with His Heart: a warm, wise and prudent heart. And into that heart He poured His Wisdom (Mt 1:24). Saint Joseph conveyed a sense of security, which was what Mary needed. In Saint Joseph there was an innate sense of protection and faith, rooted in sound principles and, above all, honesty.
The Almighty Father transformed that upright, good and generous man; loyal, obedient and strong; docile, wise and discerning, into a Saint, who accepted and put into practice the Father’s Will, first as a man and then as a true Christian, without wavering or doubting because, once he had understood the Father’s Will, he gave himself entirely without holding anything back (Mt 2:13–14).
Saint Joseph is therefore the perfect example of the man who, in God’s hands, becomes a Holy Instrument, ready and always humble: ready to listen (Mt 2:19–20), just as he is ready to act in God’s Name (Mt 2:21–23), putting in order the Holy Order established by the Almighty Father: God, Family and Work. Here is the holy and honest work practised by Saint Joseph: the work that provides for the family, not only materially, but as living sustenance in the love that one is able to give: a true and pure love, so that the whole Family, united, might praise, now as it was then, God the Almighty Father, so that, all together, they may put His Holy Will into practice.
Saint Joseph was for Jesus the example of life that enabled Him to grow into a true Man (Revelation of Jesus to Maria G. Norcia, “Saint Joseph”, 19/03/1998). Saint Joseph is therefore the living example that Jesus wished and wishes, today more than ever, to give to the whole world, since the world has lost first its human, and then its spiritual integrity. Indeed, unless one is upright, consistent and wise, one will never live the true spirituality. And this is what man has lost: those sound principles of sharing that should have fostered unity.
Here is the example of the Holy Family (Revelation of Jesus to Maria G. Norcia, “The Divine Family and the Golden Ladder”, 25/12/1988) which, from the New Jerusalem, Jesus once again sets before all those who wish to be a “family”. Family: the union of man and woman, for “male and female” (Gen 1:27) the Father created them; for “it is not good for man to be alone” but the Father wished to give him “a helper suited for him” (Gen 2:18), who would be “flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones” (Gen 2:23), so that all might live the true family willed by the Almighty Father, in holy union and in the bond promised before God, to lay the foundation for the Sacredness of Life.
Today, the order willed by God (1 Cor 14:33) stands in contrast to the disorder created and willed by the world, to those who should have sacrificed themselves to preserve this principle, and to other paths, other shortcuts that satisfy humanity.
Behold the Loving and Glorious Saint Joseph, Guardian and Bastion of every family, he who accompanied Mary, Mary, Mary, who became the living Cradle of the Word made flesh. Behold the care and concern of Saint Joseph in fulfilling his calling every day and carrying it through to completion (Revelation of Jesus to Maria G. Norcia, “Catechesis of Jesus”, 01/01/1988), so that he might be ready when the Father called him to Himself once his calling had been fulfilled.
The magnitude of Saint Joseph’s calling is immeasurable, in the face of many who have undermined family life. But the readiness of the Holy Guardian has always been alive in practising and embodying God’s Will in perfection (Mt 6:10).
Just as St Joseph was ready, so too was Maria Giuseppina ready to give herself once more in order to welcome (Meditation of the Day by the Pontiff Samuel, “Maria Giuseppina Norcia is an example for every family”, 4 March 2022 – The First Friday of Lent) and embody in her own heart the Word made flesh (Jn 1:14), in order to lead everyone once more before the final Grotto of the Child-God, so that everyone might be regenerated from above, from the Spirit (Jn 3:3) and grafted for the last time into Him who is Life. Behold, Mary and Joseph united, giving once more to the world the Shoot of God (Isa 4:2; 11:1; Jer 23:5).
In the New Jerusalem (Rev 21:2) the Comforter has descended to lead all His sons to the full knowledge of the Truth, as Jesus had promised (Jn 14:16, 26), so that every believer in the Son of God might, now as then, feel at home in the Land of Love, feel like in a family, in the arms of the Holy Guardian, in the arms of She who has brought back to life Baby Jesus in the hearts of many (Act of Magisterium, “Maria G. Norcia”, 21/01/2019); Baby Jesus, who has become an adult, to govern the nations and graft everyone into His Heart, Eternal Life (Jn 3:15), who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
March 25, 2026
Solemn Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord
6th Anniversary of the Pontifical Decree “Glorious Saint Joseph”
The Pontiff
Samuel
