November 5, 2021 3:59.03 pm

Holy Family as an

earthly reflection of the Holy

Trinity is (Joseph/Father), (Jesus),

and (Mary/Holy Spirit). Jesus is, of course,

the Son Himself; the virgin Mary is the Spouse

of The Spirit, who works with the Spirit to bring the

Son into the world, who in the theology of St. Maximilian

Kolbe is the created Immaculate Conception that parallels the

`Holy Spirit’s own uncreated Immaculate Conception; Joseph is the

foster-father of Christ and head of the Holy Family. And this mapping

of the Holy Trinity onto the Holy Family makes sense. BUT…. Cardinal Pierre

de Bérulle does something very interesting in his comparison of Mary with God.

explicit parallels between her and the Father. For example:In the one birth, we

have an eternal emanation, in the other a temporal emanation of the eternal;

in the one a production of an only Son in the self-same womb of the Father;

in the other, a new production this same only Son in the womb of the Virgin.

The one and the other bypass the laws of nature, for it belongs neither to fathers

or to virgins to conceive. Fathers produce in a foreign womb, yet our Heavenly

Father produces within Himself and in His womb, something which is proper

to Him alone. Virgins, remaining virgins, cannot conceive, yet here the Virgin

conceives by the operation of the Holy Spirit, and becomes more nobly Virgin

than before. What links the Father and Mary are their ability to produce the Son

from their own natures in the way that is utterly and totally unique to each one of

them. The Father and Mary are linked by the fact that they have a son even though by

all accounts they shouldn’t be able to have one – and the same Son, at that. And that has

me thinking about the usual comparison, … couldn’t Joseph be associated with The Spirit?

We do see some parallels. I don’t believe the Spirit ever directly speaks in Scripture, does

He? He seems like a silent guide and protector of the early Christian community. which

sounds like Joseph, who I know for a fact doesn’t speak once in Scripture, and who is

tasked with leading the first domestic church; the Holy Family? To Peter, disharmony

hinders prayer. He tells husbands: “Live with your wives in an understanding. Do this.

Nothing will stop your prayers” (I Peter 3:7.) Waiting on God means working through

conflicts, forgiving offenses, resolving disputes, resolving disputes, Do keep yourself

united in the Holy Spirit, and bind your-selves together in peace I do not promise My

followers the world’s ease and pleasures. I promise those Joys the world can neither

give nor take away. I promise the heart-rest found in Me alone. It does not mean that

All the beauty and pleasures of this world can be renounced, but that they all must be

enjoyed after treasures; Joys of My Kingdom have been learned, appreciated. Love Him.