5:17-19) as authoritatively taught by the Matthean Jesus, but with mercy as the preeminent principle of application. An angel tells Joseph in a dream that the pregnancy is through the agency of the ...

When King Herod fearing that the Messiah has indeed been born, orders that all Hebrew male children under the age of three be slain, Joseph moves his family near Egypt. Here, Jesus, sensing His ...

“Joseph became the guardian ... and by that fatherly love with which thou didst cherish the child Jesus, we beseech thee and we humbly pray that thou wilt look down with gracious eye upon ...

Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety” (Lk 2:48). Mary and Joseph felt the pain of parents with a missing child: they both thought that Jesus was in the caravan with their ...

It was Passover and Jesus was 12. As a young man he was destined to change the world for ever and so history began. I, Joseph of Arimathea was a witness to it all.” An appointment had been made ...