Mary and Joseph‘s Marriage - The Conception - Bk2 - Ch22

The Venerable Sister Mary of Jesus of Ágreda explains the details of the selection and marriage of Mary and Joseph. How old was Joseph? More importantly their interior lives.

The Blessed Virgin Mary tells us that our state in life, or our vocation, is no hindrance to the level of holiness we can achieve, "...in the example of the matrimonial life wherein the Most High placed me, you find a reproof for those souls, who allege their life in the world as an excuse for not following perfection. To God nothing is impossible, and nothing is likewise impossible to those, who with a lively faith, hope in Him, and resign themselves entirely to his divine Providence. I lived in the house of my spouse with the same perfection as in the temple; for in changing my state of life I altered neither my sentiments nor the desire and anxiety to love and serve God; on the contrary, I added to my solicitude lest the obligations of a spouse should hinder me in God s service. On this account, God favored me and disposed and accommodated powerfully all things in conformity to my desires. The Lord will do the same for all men if on their part they correspond. They however blame the state of matrimony, deceiving themselves; for the hindrance to a holy and perfect life, is not the state, but the vain and superfluous cares and anxieties, in which they involve themselves forgetting the sweetness of the Lord and seeking and preferring their own."