SPEAKING OF LOVE AND SALVATION

SPEAKING OF LOVE AND SALVATION
The evangelist Matthew is careful to show that Jesus is connected to David according to the flesh (Rom. 1: 3), but not born of a relationship between a man and a woman. The origin of Jesus belongs exclusively to God. Certainly with the participation of the Woman, but knowing that it is an action of the Holy Spirit. The evangelist emphasizes the centrality of the Messiah, who is the fulfillment of the divine promise, the point of arrival and departure of God's salvific project. Unlike Luke, Matthew emphasizes the person of Joseph, a righteous man, that is, one who puts himself at the disposal of God's saving plan, showing his importance as the one who should give Jesus the Davidic lineage, paternal care and social protection the Virgin Mary. Also, by inserting Joseph, Matthew wants to make it clear that Jesus is the Son of God. It was not Joseph who named the child, but God himself through him. It was God who said that the boy would be called Jesus (God Saves). Then it is said of the Child that He is Immanuel, that is, the God with us. So Emanuel does not mean the name of Jesus, but what He means in our midst.
Two things must be taken into account here: the virginity of the Woman and the divinity of Jesus. Virginity, in this case, is an authentic sign of the divinity of the child. As for Joseph, he is a righteous man, a doer of the Law of God, a lover of truth, obedient to the will of the Lord, he becomes the foster father of the Savior, giving him the condition of being a descendant of David and also a name. Both Mary and Joseph were blessed to be part of God's most sublime action in history, in the Humiliation of Himself (as the Incarnate Son) and Exultation of a fallen humanity in the Humanization of the Word (assuming God to be our nature human) and the divinization of man through the same Word made flesh. Joseph, a righteous man, and Mary the FULL OF GRACE, THE ENEMY WOMAN OF THE SERPENT, the ARK of the New and Eternal Covenant. Mary was born, she was created by God, to be the BLESSED, mother of the BLESSED SON JESUS ​​CHRIST, OUR SAVIOR.
A strong and affectionate hug.
Father José Erinaldo