ST JOSEPH: A FAITHFUL WITH A FATHER’S HEART

Authors

  • Peter Kochalumkal DVK, Bangalore

Keywords:

Commitment, Compassion, Faith, Righteous, Silence

Abstract

St Joseph was an integrated person with God, an integrated person with society and an integrated person with oneself. That is why he is called “Joseph, the just”. What made Joseph a righteous man? He saw the pregnant Mary, not from the perceptive of law that the Israelites practised and meticulously followed from the time of Moses but the divine law of compassion. Joseph could have chosen the law to save his face and the community's conventions, which would have been a mark of exemplary religious commitment. But as a man of righteousness, he was ready to do the will of God. He is an ideal personification of a true father who could easily influence and inspire people of the present generation.

Author Biography

Peter Kochalumkal, DVK, Bangalore

Peter Kochalumkal is a member of the religious congregation of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate and belongs to St Xavier’s Province, Rajkot, Gujarat. He holds a doctorate in theology with a specialisation in spirituality from St. Thomas Aquinas University, Rome. Presently he is a staff of (DVK) Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore. For a decade, he was Rector, CMI Vidya Bhavan, Major Seminary and a resident staff member of Gujarat Vidya Deep (GVD), Baroda. He has also served as Rector, Major Seminary, Carmel, Pune, and was teaching in JDV, Pune; Rector and teacher at Samanvaya Theologate, Bhopal. He was the provincial of CMI Province, Rajkot. He is a Retreat Preacher, too. He has published twelve books and several articles in English and different Indian languages in various journals and periodicals. His doctoral thesis is “The Indivisibility of Suffering and Joy According to the Sermons of John Hendry Cardinal Newman.” He was awarded with Shalom Media Award for Best Book, 2011.

References

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Cardinal J.H. Newman, Prayers, Verses and Devotions, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989, 320-322.

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Matthew Poole, https://biblehub.com/commenteries/poole/mathew/2.htm, Dated on 2-12-2021.

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The Roman Missal, The conference of Catholic Bishops of India, 2011, 612. https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-mass/liturgy-of-the-eucharist/saint-joseph-in-the-eucharistic-prayers (Quoted on 04-12-2021).

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Published

2022-03-31

How to Cite

Kochalumkal, P. . (2022). ST JOSEPH: A FAITHFUL WITH A FATHER’S HEART. Asian Horizons, (2), 133–146. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/3718

Issue

2022: Special Issue 2: ASIAN HORIZONS

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