Meditation

 Today’s Meditation

"In that blessed [Christmas] night, also Joseph became the patron, the vicar, and the patriarch of the whole Church. It is certain, St. Athanasius tells us, that the stable where Jesus was born is ‘a figure of the Church, whose altar is the manger, whose vicar is Joseph, whose ministers are the shepherds, whose priests are the angels, whose great High-Priest is Jesus Christ, and whose throne is the Blessed Virgin.