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ST. JOSEPH

&
ST. JOSEPH

MARELLO
Fr. Paolo Re, OSJ

O
ur Holy Founder did not give us a guide who was a stranger to the interior life, but had
the most profound things in his heart. When he was teaching the first brothers about
the virtues proper to St. Joseph, he was doing nothing less than depicting himself and
his own spiritual life. He shared who he was,
what he himself lived.

Fr. Cortona, the first disciple of the Founder,
was right to write: “The thought of St. Joseph
produced an unalterable peace in the soul of
Msgr. Marello, and such a tranquility so as to
constrain all of his impulses to the most
perfect calm. The great Patriarch was never
cast down, never sad, never discouraged in
setbacks, and never too exhilarated in joy.”
Imitating and re-proposing to himself the life
of St. Joseph, it was easy for the first Brothers
to admire in the Founder the same virtues
which he attributed to St. Joseph.

The spiritual characteristics of our Religious
Family can be summarized in abandonment to
Divine Providence, thus imitating St. Joseph who
lived in a continuous listening to the Word of
God, and in a hidden life of intimacy with Jesus.
These virtues were also specifically apparent in
St. Joseph Marello where they took on a strong
emphasis, because they were lived in the school
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