00:00Let's start thinking now about our culture, about our life, about this people who have become worldly, who have become pagan.
00:06And that we have been swept along; the Assyrians didn't come here, the internet came here, movies came here.
00:17Other cultures have come here and filled our minds and hearts with garbage, and paganized our people.
00:25And they have filled our fields with stones, and Christian culture no longer flourishes.
00:32Now we all live in disarray, and the idea is to make us aware of the need to be part of these anahuín.
00:41of this group that honors the Lord, that continues to believe in Him and that, as I will say later, lives their relationship with Him radically.
00:50That must have been the case for this family, which was formed within the practical priestly structure,
00:59I would continue to wait on Yahweh, on his promises.
01:03We know nothing more about them; the Gospel of Luke presents Mary to us in that city.
01:10where she is visited by the angel Gabriel to ask for her consent in God's plan of salvation.
01:16We know that Saint Matthew, who was already betrothed to Joseph, who does not appear in the Lucan account,
01:25which raises the possibility that she was around 15 or 17 years old at the time,
01:31which was the marriageable age for women, and therefore she was already given in marriage to another man,
01:38which we know from the Synoptic Gospels, especially Matthew,
01:41who was a carpenter by trade, and who at the time must have been between 25 and 30 years old,
01:48which was the marriageable age for men.
01:50So, from the Gospels we discover a small group of people,
01:55way out there in the middle of nowhere,
01:59in the middle of nowhere, as the Americans say,
02:02where the people here in the south didn't even consider them,
02:07They were the little pagans over there,
02:10It was the people who no longer practiced,
02:12It was the people who suddenly started making excursions to Jerusalem,
02:17But they were second-class citizens.
02:20They were not good Jews.
02:22So, that's a little bit of the context of our Blessed Mother,
02:28of his family,
02:29from the moment the Lord comes to propose to him,
02:32also to remove some incorrect images,
02:36also of Saint Joseph, whom we see there as an old man,
02:38which also comes from the Apocryphal Gospel of James,
02:42to give each one their proper place and role in history.
02:46Thank you!
