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he who has heard, seen with his own eyes, contemplated and touched with his own hands, can
offer Him true witness (cf. 1Jn1,1). We can also add that this interior attitude does not isolate
one from their place in the Church’s life, but helps him to see reality in a new light and allows
him to draw strength and sustenance for his apostolate.

Our Founder admired particularly, this profound dimension of the Guardian of the Redeemer:
“but the point in the life of St. Joseph upon which he focused most with his beloved children
was the hidden life of this great Patriarch with his most beloved Jesus. - ‘His life was hidden
with Jesus in God.’ Behold, these were all his greatnesses and all his merits, this his true life. He
is in that which God proposes to him as a model for the entire Church, but more and often our
father used to say that since in the Church there were religious congregations who had as their
particular purpose to meditate on the sorrows of Mary most holy, such as the Servants of Mary,
and others to meditate on the Passion of Jesus, like the Passionists, so therefore the Oblates of
St. Joseph were to make a study of imitating more closely that hidden life of St. Joseph: ‘et vita
vestra abscondita cum Christo in Deo.’ - Fortunate those, he said, who understood the project of
the hidden life: they will certainly give great glory to God.

May our holy Patriarch obtain for everyone from God every opportune grace and happy Feast
Day of our Founder.

Fraternally,

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