St. Joseph: The Savior of Our Savior | Fr. Basil Cole, O.P.

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🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Advent livestream series. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:

Joining the Dominicans of the Western Province in 1960, Fr. Cole was ordained to the priesthood in 1966. He finished his theological studies at Le Saulchoir in Etiolles, France earning the lectorate and licentiate degrees in 1968. He later received the doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (the Angelicum). After teaching theology and philosophy at Pilarica College for the Notre Dame Sisters (1968-69), Fr. Cole was elected prior of St. Dominic’s in San Francisco, where he also served as parish priest, a member of the provincial council and lecturer at various institutions (1970-1975). Elected prior of Daniel Murphy High School community in Los Angeles he became a member of the Western Dominican preaching band and preached throughout the American West. Fr. Cole was an invited professor at the Angelicum from 1985-97, and has taught moral, spiritual and dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies since 1997.

Fr. Cole has authored: Music and Morals, Alba House, Staten Island, New York, 1993; co-authored with Paul Connor, O.P.; Christian Totality: Theology of Consecrated Life, published by St. Paul’s editions in Bombay, India 1990, revised in 1997 Alba House, Staten Island, New York. He has written for The Priest, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Faith and Reason, and Angelicum. He has also been a long time collaborator for Germain Grisez’s four volume series of moral theology, The Way of the Lord Jesus.

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0:00.0	This evening's conference is on St. Joseph, patron saint of the Universal Church,
0:07.0	declared by Blessed Pius the 9th, and called the Adopting Father of Jesus,
0:19.0	though he was more adopted by God than he was that he adopted
0:23.3	Jesus, a fatherhood that's, we can't fit it into a category, it's beyond anything that
0:33.7	we can experience and know in this life, a supernatural fatherhood. St. Joseph had to be prepared
0:44.3	by God to be the guardian of the virginity of Mary, as well as the guardian of the virginity of Mary, as well as the guardian of the Redeemer, and to teach the
1:01.8	Redeemer what it means to be a male in his society. So given these extraordinary ministries, these extraordinary things within his vocation, he had to be prepared.
1:20.6	And so Josephine theologians would say that while he was not given the immaculate conception, he was probably sanctified
1:30.3	in the womb after receiving original sin and then given extraordinary graces, so that he would
1:40.6	be able to guide and direct and be the head of the Holy Family.
1:47.0	Think about it. He has authority over the queen of heaven and earth while he was on earth,
1:54.0	and authority on the Godman. We also have to keep in mind that the incarnation of the second person of the Blessed
2:06.6	Trinity and the redemptive acts of the Lord Jesus, including the resurrection and ascension,
2:13.9	in some way Joseph prepared Jesus for this. So in some sense, we owe him a giant thank you and
2:27.3	honor for what he did for us in preparing Jesus on his human nature to be able to interact and found our religion
2:44.0	which we communicate with God. Just like the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph too had his annunciation.
2:57.6	But to keep in mind that when Mary and Joseph were, quote, engaged,
3:08.3	which at the time of Christ was really a marriage,
3:13.3	but not solemnized yet,
3:15.3	they were probably matched by their parents.
3:20.3	To think of Joseph as an 80-year-old marrying, Mary is incomprehensible to think about it because it would just look so very odd to the people interacting with Joseph and the fact that he worked so diligently with our Lord for so many years in the hidden life.
3:44.9	Nevertheless, when Mary comes back visiting Elizabeth and she's pregnant and he sees it, he feels
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