I am so excited. Our Newman Center just got a new statue of St. Joseph. It was handcrafted in Germany, it is absolutely beautiful, and my favorite thing about it is that the baby Jesus, the Lord of the universe, is holding the world, but is being held by his dad, St. Joseph, and the baby Jesus is safe and resting in his dad’s arms. St. Joseph was a good father, and he must have learned how to be a good father by imitating the Heavenly Father. St. Paul, in the second reading for this Sunday, speaks about being imitators of Christ. The Macedonians imitated the Thessalonians, the Thessalonians imitated St. Paul, and St. Paul imitated Christ. The Christian life is one long chain of imitators. We are called to imitate the holy men and women; we’re called to imitate the saints, and we are called to imitate the Lord of the universe, Jesus Christ. Friends, you don’t have to be original. You have to imitate Jesus.
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