♔ ST. JOSEPH IS REUNITED WITH THE VIRGIN MARY ON HER ASSUMPTION ♔ St. Alphonsus Liguori

St. Alphonsus de Liguori (The Glories of Mary): Who can comprehend the affection with which the Blessed Virgin’s dear spouse St. Joseph came to salute her? Who can describe the joy that the holy patriarch experienced at seeing his spouse arrive in Heaven with so much triumph, made Queen of all Paradise?

With what tenderness did he say to her: "Ah! my Lady and spouse how shall I ever be able to thank our God as I ought for having made me thy spouse, thou who art his true mother? Through thee I merited on earth to attend upon the childhood of the incarnate Word, to bear him so often in my arms, and receive from him so many special favors.

Blessed be the moments that I spent in life serving Jesus and thee, my holy spouse. Behold our Jesus; let us console ourselves that now he is no more lying in a stable upon hay, as we saw him at his birth in Bethlehem; he does not now live poor and despised in a shop, as once he lived with us in Nazareth; he is not now nailed to a shameful cross, as when he died for the salvation of the world in Jerusalem; but he sits at the right hand of the Father, as King and Lord of Heaven and of earth.

And now, oh my queen, we shall never more depart from his holy feet, where we shall bless and love him eternally."