Pope Francis proclaimed this is a Year of Saint Joseph, but Do Catholic Clergy Read about him in The Bible?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
April 23, 2021 7:55am CST
A newsletter I get from Heart of the Nation tells me that this year is "a Year of Saint Joseph," but then the writer (probably one of HOTN's Catholic ministers) says that "Scripture does not quote Joseph."
And I'm thinking 'Hello! Did you not read about "who named the Christ-child 'Jesus?"'
I looked, and--at least in the gospel of Matthew--Joseph didn't 'speak' (so they can say that he wasn't "quoted"), but a) God (EL) came to HIM in dreams to tell him a) that he should stay with Mary (rather than quietly divorcing her for having a child with another man), b) that they need to flee to Egypt until, c) EL came to tell him that Herod was finished killing younglings, not-to-mention d) that the child's name was to be 'Jesus' (EL Saves).
And yes; looking at 'the several times he comes up in the gospels' (along with "Joseph of Arimathea"), it seems that Joseph is only important as 'the "male parental-guardian" of Jesus (whom was called 'The Son of Joseph' almost as often as the gospels called Him 'The Son of God').'
https://biblehub.com/greek/2501.htm
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Apr 21
All catholics have a Bible in their homes or at least that was common when I grew up but I was never taught too open the book and read it. The protests do read from it in Sundays but I don't know that they take time to study it or put it together.
Btw, Joseph of arimathea was a different Joseph or did you already know that? I want sure.
I got introduced to the Bible when I was 26 and have been studying it since. I went to pariochial school but was never taught the Bible while there even in religion class in high school.
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
23 Apr 21
Yep, 2 separate Joseph's of the 13 in The Bible
Actually, The Catholic Mass-program usually schedules 'readings' (of passages in The Bible), right before the priest reads a passage from The Gospels and gives a homily/sermon ... but many (Catholics AND Protestants) don't read their Bibles PRIVATELY.
In fact, many atheists say they BECAME atheists by reading THEIR Bibles privately and seeing more contradictions than they can handle!
https://www.quora.com/How-many-Josephs-are-there-in-the-Bible/answer/Godwin-Goziem-Jireh
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
23 Apr 21
@mythociate there are less contradictions than people think. For instance the numbers of those going to wear differ in kings and chronicles but one is written from man's perspective the other from foods perspective. The Bible also used manners and customs from biblical times and figures I'd speech so while much of the Bible is literal there are similes and metaphors along with other figures that if one doesn't know them they get all confused.
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
23 Apr 21
@MarshaMusselman I know. And then people read it like it's writers were writing to THEM (rather than 'to people with common understandings of that bygone era').
I guess it might help to read it 'as if it's not written TO you---as if it's written by one or another big authority to someone else, and you INTERCEPTED it ... that way you can regard the stuff you don't understand as "something understood by THEM, which either you can ask about later or you don't need to know.'
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