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00:07Now let's continue talking about the conception and birth of Christ within these accounts
00:16of childhood that Saint Matthew offers us. But pause your video. Go and read the chapter
00:251 from verse 18 to 25. Sometimes I might forget to tell you to read it, but please you
00:33Read it because this way you'll understand much better everything we're talking about.
00:42and therefore get the most out of it. Now then, let's begin. After the genealogy,
00:51The Gospel of Matthew tells us about the virginal conception and birth of Christ. Mary was
00:59Betrothed to Joseph. What does this mean? Betrothal or engagement represents a commitment
01:08of a marital union with legal and moral effects comparable to those of a marriage
01:16fully, which can be seen in the book of Deuteronomy in chapter 20. In fact,
01:25According to the law, adultery in the context of a betrothal could be punished by stoning.
01:34as this same book also indicates, but in chapter 22, verses 23 to 24.
01:43After a year or more has passed since this marriage, since according to Vox, this can vary depending on the
01:51For the convenience of those involved, the marriage was celebrated with the bride being escorted to the
01:59The husband's house. Mary and Joseph were in the first stage, that is, in the betrothal. However,
02:08Mary was already pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Joseph, who was a righteous man beyond the reach of the gods, was also born of the Spirit.
02:18precepts, as described by Matthew in chapter 5, verse 20, which says the following,
02:27For I tell you that unless you surpass the teachers of the law and the Pharisees in
02:34do
02:34Those who are righteous in God's eyes will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Joseph acted with divine righteousness.
02:45We see, then, that Joseph accepts Mary's conception with faith, beyond any considerations
02:53patriarchal genealogies, recognizing and accepting the intervention of the Holy Spirit.
03:00This is how the virginal conception transcends the patriarchal and legal framework of Israel's tradition
03:10to inscribe itself on a deeper and more universal plane, that of human motherhood symbolized
03:19in our Mother Mary.
03:23Verse 21 tells us that the angel tells Joseph the name he should give to that child.
03:32newborn.
03:34Naming a child was acknowledging him as a son, and it was God who commanded Saint Joseph to do so.
03:44He should call him Jesus.
03:48We had already said that the name Jesus means God saves, which means that God is in the
03:58person of the Son.
03:59But returning to the subject of Joseph, then he, in obedience to the Father, assumes the paternity of Jesus,
04:09thus becoming the putative father of Jesus, hence the nickname Pepe for those named Joseph.
04:19So that we don't have any doubts about the name of Jesus, because you may have noticed that it suddenly says
04:25Emmanuel or Jesus, because the following needs to be clarified.
04:32His prophetic name is Emmanuel, God who comes to our world and will dwell with us.
04:42while Jesus is his proper name in which his divine origin and his mission are implicit.
04:53One quote that is certainly of interest in this story is that of Matthew in chapter 1, verse 23,
05:01which is the fulfillment of the quote from Isaiah, chapter 7, verse 14, which says the following,
05:08The Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will name him Emmanuel.
05:17This quote tells us about the virginal conception of Mary.
05:22The word "virgin" in Aramaic is described as "soul."
05:28The word "alma" literally means "young woman," without explicitly stating whether that young woman is a virgin or not.
05:37But when translated into Greek, the word parthenos is used, which means virgin in a strict sense,
05:49since Hebrew does not have precise words to indicate virginity,
05:54But the Greek does not indicate that she was a young virgin.
06:00Thus the Aramaic word "young" presupposes Mary's virginity,
06:07thus highlighting the virginal conception of Jesus through our Blessed Mother by the work of the Holy Spirit.
06:16José received her at his home, which was equivalent to the celebration of a full marriage.
06:25Matthew states the following in chapter 1, verse 25,
06:31But I didn't know her until she gave birth to a son.
06:36Here the word know from the Greek guinosko means to have a conjugal union.
06:46But the use of the Greek term eos, which translates as until,
06:53This does not imply that José met her later.
06:57but emphasizes that Joseph did not intervene in any way in the birth of Jesus.
07:05We could say that Jesus arrived in the midst of the crisis.
07:10We have Maria, who risked her life because she could have been stoned.
07:15On the other hand, there was the story of Saint Joseph, who rose above the society of his time,
07:21accepting Mary's motherhood and Jesus as her son.
07:27And we see that both overcame the crisis.
07:32Brothers, the fact that we allow Emmanuel, that promise, to be born in us,
07:39It will undoubtedly also bring crises to our lives.
07:43But God always rescues us from this, just as he did with Joseph and Mary.
07:50In the case of Joseph, by sending his angel who made him know in a dream
07:55that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
08:01Brothers and sisters, we need courageous people, we need to be courageous like Mary and Joseph.
08:07capable of allowing, through their faithfulness and obedience,
08:12May the kingdom of Christ be established in the midst of any crisis
08:17and with the consequences that this entails.
08:22Be courageous so that the kingdom may be established in us and in others
08:28through the work of the Holy Spirit in the world.
08:31Thus, the invitation in the figures of Joseph and Mary is to dare to say yes,
08:38regardless of the crisis that may arise,
08:42God will be present guiding you.
08:45To conclude this brief discussion, let's recall what Salvador Carrillo Alday says.
08:52and Saint Bernardino of Siena.
08:55Mary consecrated her virginity forever to God,
08:59while Joseph also consecrated to God his care, love, and veneration
09:06to guard Mary and Jesus.
09:09Thus, after Mary, it is to Saint Joseph that we have special gratitude and veneration.
09:20Now let's look at the adoration of the Magi, the flight, and the return to Nazareth.
09:28After the conception and birth of Jesus, the adoration of the Magi is narrated.
09:35This word comes from the Greek magoi,
09:40who are those men of science who, through the observation of the stars
09:46They interpreted that birth of Christ.
09:50Some important points that Matthew highlights in this passage are the following.
09:56The universality of the message of salvation that we discover in the origin of these Magi,
10:04that are mentioned in the text, came from the East.
10:09Another is that Jesus was born in Bethlehem during the time of King Herod, called Herod the Great.
10:18His birth in Bethlehem is the fulfillment of the prophecy of Micah chapter 5, verse 2.
10:25Another point that Matthew highlights is that the wise men come to worship Jesus
10:33And they represent the spiritual quest and recognition of the divinity of Jesus.
10:41The Magi's gesture of adoration evokes some passages from the Old Testament,
10:48like that of Isaiah chapter 49, verse 22 and following.
10:54Isaiah chapter 60, verse 5 and following.
10:59Psalm 72, verses 10-12.
11:03And the latter says the following.
11:06Let kings bring him gifts and bow down before him.
11:12Hence, the Magi soon became known in popular opinion as the Three Wise Men.
11:19And it is important to emphasize that the search for the Lord has different motivations or intentions.
11:27While the Magi sought him to worship him, King Herod sought him to kill him.
11:35because it was getting in the way of their plans.
11:37The solution to their problems was simply to kill.
11:41Regarding this, Pope Francis says,
11:46Given this, we might ask ourselves,
11:50Me too?
11:51Why do I seek Jesus?
11:53What motivates me to be here today?
11:56Or to belong to some movement?
12:00Why do I pray?
12:02Do you recognize the divinity of Christ the King?
12:05Do you truly worship him like the Magi, or falsely like Herod?
12:13We now continue with the flight to Egypt.
12:18In it we find the fulfillment of the passage from Jeremiah chapter 31, verse 15,
12:25where the captives of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are mentioned,
12:31those who were waiting in the Rama concentration camps after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian Empire.
12:40This prophetic passage from Jeremiah offers comfort,
12:46since it announces that after the misfortune of exile,
12:50God will restore the people and establish a new and definitive covenant.
12:57Thus, Matthew presents the persecution of Jesus and the massacre of the innocents.
13:04as a new manifestation of the suffering of God's people,
13:09but it also announces the restoration and the new covenant promised by Jeremiah.
13:22Joseph was warned in a dream that he should flee to that place.
13:28This is the fulfillment quote from Hosea, chapter 11, verse 1.
13:35Matthew presents Jesus as the new Moses who liberates God's people,
13:41recapping the story of the exodus from Egypt.
13:45It is not known how long they stayed in Egypt.
13:50Herod the Great died in 4 BC.
13:54and his son Arkelau reigned until 6 AD.
14:00And it was during the reign of this son of Herod
14:03when the Holy Family returns, but not to Bethlehem, but to Nazareth.
14:11Regarding this, we need to ask ourselves the following.
14:15How many people today have to flee their homeland?
14:20because of the Herodian plans of the governments
14:23who look after their own interests and not those of the people?
14:28But in the face of this, we Christians too...
14:32We must take responsibility for the necessary actions
14:36to have better governments.
14:38I want to emphasize that although Matthew constantly shows us the fulfillment of the Old Testament
14:46In the person of Jesus, he, Matthew, is first and foremost a witness, not just a transmitter of stories.
14:55Therefore, his entire gospel impels us to be living witnesses,
15:02not only from what is revealed in Sacred Scripture, but from Christ himself whom we have come to know in our own
15:11life.
15:11That said, let's book the last part of our class
15:18to delve deeper into the person of Saint Joseph, a figure who stands out strongly in these childhood stories.
15:27See you in a moment.
15:56Thanks for watching the video.