the greatest male saint in the history of the church, and his sanctity will never be surpassed.

And this saint, I will reveal it to you in a moment, there's very little information about it.

So we need to do some theological and spiritual digging, that's the will of God,

to appreciate him. This greatest saint, whoever lived, was not a deacon, was not a priest, was not a bishop, was not a pope, was not a hermit,

was not a monk. In fact, he was a regular guy. In the gospel, even though there's negativity

in what I'm going to quote, because our Lord started to go public,

and he gave a discourse in a synagogue, and people were quite surprised that he would speak publicly. He had never done that before. He had never worked a miracle until he went public. He went public for three years. And the first reaction his listeners had when he gave a discourse in the synagogue in his hometown. Is the following.

Where did this man get this wisdom?

And these mighty works.

Is not this the carpenter's son?

Is not his mother called Mary. We turn to St. Mark's gospel. St. Mark got this

information in Peter's homilies in Rome. Where did this man get all this? What is the wisdom given to him?

What mighty works are wrought by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?

So what kind of reaction do we have? You're too much of a regular guy to go public.

We're kind of surprised at these insights and this wisdom

because you're a regular guy. You're a son of a carpenter. The other gospel, I'm not going to read

all of them. You're the son of Joseph, the carpenter. You're a son of a very regular guy. At least the

external trappings of Joseph are quite pedestrian. Interiorly, he can't be surpassed. It's providential that Joseph, that's the saint, the great saint, was a husband and a father,

and a worker, beset by many contradictions. His faith was severely tested if he had an American practical mind,

or if he were a rationalist, I'm getting prepped for tomorrow's talk on the Enlightenment.

He would conclude, what is this?

The Messiah, the Savior of the world, the chosen people have been waiting for him

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