Welcoming Mary, the Son in her womb and his own people, Joseph anticipated the teaching that Jesus will later share with his disciples: those who recognize, without prejudice and with haste, the unpredictable human face of God are truly righteous, because “each time you did it for one of the least of my brothers, you did it for me” (Mt 25,40). The solution to Joseph’s uncertainties was not, therefore, in disengaging. On the contrary, he entered into encounters with the others, with the most fragile and, above all, allowing God’s dreams to recreate life to the utmost extent possible.
(From the Letter for Christmas 2020)
