On the Feast of St. Joseph of Cupertino, I am reminded that God uses the weak to confound the strong. By all accounts, as a young man he was considered “unteachable” due to his utter lack of intelligence. And yet here we are, centuries later, celebrating him with the following collect.
“O God, Who didst purpose to draw all things unto Thine Only Begotten Son when He was lifted up from the earth, mercifully grant that we, by the merits and example of Thy seraphic confessor Joseph, being lifted above all earthly desires, may be worthy to come unto Him, Per Dominum Nostram…”
Did you catch all the “lifting up” and “soaring” references? Our boy could fly. I love the clever way the Church composed the collect but I love more that God raised him up as a mystical example for us (figuratively and literally raised him up).
St. Joseph of Cupertino, pray for us!
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