Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet—St. Joseph: Guard What Has Been Entrusted to You

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is the second sermon of seventeenth-century French theologian and bishop, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, to be featured on this podcast. Like the first, it takes St. Joseph for its subject.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bossuet's love for the hidden life is at the center of his devotion to St. Joseph, and is the virtue of Joseph which he most focuses upon in this sermon. His reflections here are remarkably appropriate for Advent, meditating as he does on both Joseph's hidden life, as well as the hidden circumstances of Christ’s birth and life—and looking ahead to Christ's Second Coming, when</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">St. Joseph’s hidden greatness will truly be known.</span></p> <p><em>Meditations for Advent</em><em>,</em> Sophia Institute Press: <a href= "https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/meditations-for-advent" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/meditations-for-advent</a></p> <p>Go to <a href="http://www.catholicculture.org/getaudio" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">http://www.catholicculture.org/getaudio</a> to register for FREE access to the full archive of audiobooks beyond the most recent 15 episodes.</p> <p>Donate at: <a href= "http://www.catholicculture.org/donate/audio" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">http://www.catholicculture.org/donate/audio</a></p> <p>Theme music: 2 Part Invention, composed by Mark Christopher Brandt, performed by Thomas Mirus. ©️2019 Heart of the Lion Publishing Co./BMI. All rights reserved.</p>