As we honor the glorious St. Joseph this Friday and throughout the year, it is our pleasure to present to you Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet's great sermon on St. Joseph, entitled "Guard what has been entrusted to you." Bossuet's panegyric on the patron of the universal Church is one of the earliest surviving formal orations in honor of the foster-father of our Lord.
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), Bishop of Meaux, is celebrated for his pulpit oratory, as it is called, that is, the art of composing and delivering a sermon. Like any good Catholic priest, he often preached from memory and on subjects of more-or-less daily concern to his flock. But in 17th-century France, there was a great appetite for formal pulpit oratory, an appetite regularly satisfied by hour-long sermons for which one would send one's footman to secure a pew the day before the Mass!
Brought to you by the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology and read by Academic Dean, Dr. Christopher Blum, this sermon is sure to increase your devotion to the chaste protector of the Blessed Virgin and zealous defender of Christ, St. Joseph. May we endeavor to mirror his purity, obedience, and patience in our daily lives.
Listen to sermon here
https://watch.formed.org/saint-joseph/v ... ted-to-you
Guard what has been entrusted to you
Moderator: Denise
Guard what has been entrusted to you
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales