THE VOICE OF TRUTH PART 735 - THE EXAMPLE OF SAINT JOSEPH

Dear Bishops, Priests, religious men and women, and all of you who are following the Voice of Truth Channel.

Saint Joseph is solemnly celebrated by the Church because he was chosen by God from eternity in His plan of salvation, to be the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the foster father of Jesus, God made man.

In the work of the new era, the era of the Holy Spirit, God reveals to humanity more clearly the person of Saint Joseph as he lived on earth with radiant virtues: faith, hope, love, obedience, poverty, chastity, diligence, courage, and silence. He became a just and wise man by fulfilling all the duties God entrusted to him in his role as the head of the Holy Family. Saint Joseph is indispensable in God's work of salvation, as he united with Mother Mary to raise Jesus. He was silent, yet he played a very important role in God's work of salvation.

Today, on this feast of Saint Joseph, God wishes for me to share with all of humanity about his virtues. Through the intercession of Saint Joseph and by imitating his virtues, we, humanity, can enjoy the joy of heaven right here on this earth.

Dear everyone

Whomever God chooses, He bestows graces upon; these are gratuitous graces, not because of human merit but because of God's love, as in the letter to the Philippians, chapter 2, verse 13, where Saint Paul said: “For God is the one who, for his good purpose, works in you both to desire and to work.” And how a person receives such grace depends on their love and trust in God. Our Lady and Saint Joseph were lovingly chosen and called by God, and He bestowed graces upon them for His work of salvation.

The first gifts are the graces of Faith, Hope, and Charity.

The Gospel does not say much about Saint Joseph, only recounting his virtues and actions. This proves one thing: he trusted absolutely in the power of the Almighty God. Therefore, today, God invites all His children to follow the faith of Saint Joseph, to trust and fear God alone, who is the only, absolutely powerful, and eternal One, who never fades away. Faith in the love and fear of God, which emanated from the soul of Saint Joseph, has left a beautiful example for people in today's world to follow. Saint Joseph's cooperation in God's work during the redemptive time of Jesus Christ pleased God, for the saint completed the mission that God entrusted to his earthly life despite encountering countless trials, even when he had to grope through the dark night of faith.

God wants all those who have absolute trust in the powerful God to learn from the example of Saint Joseph regarding faith, hope, and love for God. If a person claims to have faith in the one God of love who is the Savior of all humanity, then they must act according to that faith; that is, to absolutely obey everything that God commands without going against His will, even in the smallest matter.

God wants all of humanity to place absolute trust in Him and rely completely upon Him. Believe absolutely that only God alone can bring eternal life to humanity. To do this, God wants everyone to absolutely obey what He has commanded in His work of salvation, in this era of the Holy Spirit's activity.

God is the One who bestows every good gift upon humanity. He excludes no one when they have faith and trust in Him. It is for this reason that God invites everyone to place absolute trust in Him, in the love and salvation that He offers to all. For He is the powerful One; He knows everything in this world, He sees from the inside out, from thoughts, reflections, and actions, to the very breath and heartbeat of every human being.

In the past, Saint Joseph trusted with one heart, entrusting himself completely to God to lead and direct his life. In the time of Saint Joseph, for a person to accept a pregnancy that was of God required facing many difficulties and trials, condemnation and opposition, exclusion and death. But because Saint Joseph had absolute trust in the Almighty God, he defied all difficulties, trials, persecution, opposition, and condemnation; Saint Joseph remained determined to be faithful and obedient to the will of God as instructed. Whether moved by the Holy Spirit in a dream or in his mind, he still trusted and was determined to do everything God wanted so that His work of salvation could be completed.

Indeed, God's work unfolds according to His plan from before all ages, but He also always respects human freedom. Saint Joseph chose freely in God. To do this, the saint also had to renounce himself, to renounce everything belonging to this world to completely obey the will of God, which was to believe and accept that the Virgin Mary was pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit through the angel's annunciation in a dream. Saint Joseph took Mary into his home. Thanks to Saint Joseph's obedience, Mary avoided the gossip and all the humiliation that the world would have heaped upon her. As we know, in Mary's time, a woman being pregnant without a husband was a disgrace to the entire family, and she would have been stoned to death. Through this, we see that by trusting and obeying God absolutely, one will be protected, guarded, and have everything arranged beautifully according to His will.

The Bible recounts only a few brief words, but they are enough to see the role and virtue of Saint Joseph as the “chaste guardian of the Virgin Mary.”

Likewise, even today, in this work of the era of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit has also opened the way for people to further trust in His power in God's work of salvation of the past, by tasting the gifts of the Holy Spirit with special graces. Indeed, those called to walk in this work have had to, are having to, and will have to endure many difficulties, trials, misunderstandings, humiliations, and persecutions from their contemporaries because of the Sanctification work of the Holy Spirit.

Just as in the past, God placed His work of salvation in the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. Mary was able to conceive Jesus Christ under the influence of the Holy Spirit without physical relations; truly an event that could not be accepted.

Today it is the same; how can it be accepted when God places His work in an ordinary woman like me? A woman who has lived a married family life, yet now claims to be the Angel of Light of God, and then gives birth to angels. This is a difficulty and a trial for the work of the Holy Spirit in the world today. But that is God's way; humans can only humbly bow their heads and accept it. For, as the prophet Isaiah wrote the Word of God: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts.”

Therefore, God wants all those who walk in His work to be joyful, happy, peaceful, and to trust absolutely that: this is a work that comes from God, and one must accept the difficulties, the trials, the persecutions, and calmly do everything that God wants, just like Saint Joseph in the past. God exalts human faith, hope, and love for God, and does not want humans to use their limited intellect to speculate on God's plan of salvation and sanctification. He does not need anyone to be His advisor, for humans and angels alike are only creatures that He lovingly created.

God invites everyone around the world to trust in the power of the Holy Spirit working in the world today, for He can do all things; He does everything that is best for humanity so that people can live happily in the Kingdom of Heaven hereafter with God.

God wants everyone to follow the example of Saint Joseph, to always know how to be intimately and deeply united with God to listen to His Word and promptly practice what He teaches. Always live simply, sincerely, and peacefully in all things, in all circumstances, because of the trust and reliance that God always provides for, shelters, and protects each person in their life. Everything in the life of each person is within the will and providence of God. Be steadfast in faith and hope like Saint Joseph to obey God as promptly as he did; whether it is midnight or any other time, when God calls, be ready to answer. Bring the Word of God into practice in your life to attain the perfect love and freedom of the soul like Saint Joseph.

The chastity of Saint Joseph

God placed Mary and Saint Joseph from eternity for His work of salvation. This is a work of God given to humanity. When the time was fulfilled, He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, to come to earth as a man, to love and accompany humanity. To be with humans, God wanted to take on a human body like everyone else with two natures: the nature of God and the nature of man. That is the mysterious spiritual plan that humans could see with their own eyes, touch, and live with.

Therefore, to conceive, give birth to, as well as to nurture and protect the Son of God, the Most Holy One, God bestowed upon Mother Mary and Saint Joseph a state of complete purity and chastity. They were preserved and protected by the light of God from all defilement, sin, carnal passions, greed, anger, and ignorance—everything belonging to the world. This was a gratuitous gift that no human could attain by their own power. Wherever the holy grace of God reaches, He transforms that person according to His Holy Will. Just as Mother Mary and Saint Joseph were kept and protected by God to collaborate in His work of salvation, which was to accompany and care for Jesus during His childhood.

Mother Mary is the one to whom God granted the privilege of the Immaculate Conception, so she is completely pure. She was protected by God, not having to battle the world, the devil, and the flesh like others, yet she remained conscious of her status as a creature, wisely avoiding occasions of sin through prayer, fasting, and temperance, as mentioned in video clip number 706 regarding her 12 virtues.

It is also through the grace of Mother Mary's purity and chastity that Saint Joseph was protected from the temptations of passions, especially carnal desires. When the Spirit of God overshadowed Mary, that same Spirit sanctified those near her, and Saint Joseph overcame temptations. For this reason, no shadow of sin could ever penetrate the Holy Family of Nazareth. This was a grace bestowed by God upon Saint Joseph so that he could effectively collaborate and fulfill the noble mission that God entrusted to him in His work of salvation. This was what God desired out of His great love for humanity.

God revealed that because of this, Satan was enraged and sought to destroy the Holy Family of Nazareth by all means. They infiltrated arrogant, greedy, and selfish people to oppose God's work of salvation, seeking to kill Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God. But precisely because of the grace and purity that God freely bestowed upon Mother Mary and Saint Joseph, they were able to listen to the voice of God and follow everything He commanded, from the greatest to the smallest tasks.

Today, in the work of Sanctification by the Holy Spirit, God wants everyone to follow the pure and luminous example of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph to listen to the voice of God, instructed through the promptings of the Holy Spirit in their conscience, reason, and will, and to do everything that God desires. But only those who fear and obey the will of God at all times and in all places will have His light and love reign within them.

Besides that, God also wants humanity to know that: Saint Joseph himself had to struggle greatly to resist temptations of carnal desire, pride, anger, disobedience to God's will in favor of his own, and division within the Holy Family of Nazareth, but how did he overcome those temptations?

Firstly, it was due to his fear of God, his love for the will of God, and his faith in the power of the Almighty God. Because he believed that God could do all things, and he believed in God's choice of him to be the spouse and collaborator with the Virgin Mary in raising Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, who came into the world to redeem humanity.

Secondly, because Saint Joseph was a righteous man, he was generous in all things, loving and respecting the woman in his family, and acting in unity with his spouse to care for and look after the Son of God. Through Mother Mary's lament to Jesus, humanity sees the image of Saint Joseph with a heart that empathized with her: "Son, why have you treated us like this? You see, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress!"

God invites everyone, especially those living a life consecrated to God, to follow the example of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph: fear God, obey Him at all times and in all places, and do everything that God desires, so that the grace of God will come and dwell within them, making it easier to fight against the temptations of lust and carnal passions. Only then can a consecrated person truly live as purely and brightly as God desires. If one does not remain near His light, it is impossible to fight against the temptations of lust and carnal passions; instead, there will be pride, irritability, discomfort, resentment, carnal desire, bodily passions, lust for power, lust for fame, lust for status, along with one's own selfish ego.

For the light and grace of God to dwell within a person, one must remain close to God, and even closer to the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, so that He may grant additional strength to fight against the three enemies of Satan currently reigning in this world.

Lust is something that makes you unclean, a slave to sin and a slave to the flesh, causing one to lose their freedom. Therefore, on this feast of Saint Joseph, God wants each person, especially those living a life consecrated to God, to look to the example of Saint Joseph, who remained steadfast in the virtue of chastity. As a companion to Mother Mary, Saint Joseph's heart was always directed toward God and obedient to Him absolutely. This orientation toward God, loving God, and fearing God above all else helps the human heart remain pure and bright, allowing one to walk firmly through this world amidst so many trials and temptations of all kinds of indulgence and carnal passions.

God wants each person to learn from the example of Saint Joseph and to beg him for the grace of purity and chastity. From his chaste lily, he will bestow drops of grace upon those who yearn for a pure and bright heart to offer to God the Father.

God wants each person to learn from the example of Saint Joseph, living in the world but not belonging to the world, living near the mud but not smelling of it, in order to offer a pure soul and a wholehearted heart to God. When everyone lives this way, everyone will become like the Angels and the Saints, having a unity and love that is equal without partiality, thereby enabling everyone to work for God better because they are free in both soul and body.

Regarding this matter, I would also like to share a bit of my own experience when I was called to live a life consecrated to God after having experienced married life.

A vocation is a mystery, because when I reflect on my own life, and on the very words God wrote for me on January 21, 2025, as follows: "Greetings, my child. I want to let you know that you are a human being, but placed by me in my plan of salvation. I allowed you to enter this world as a human being by my intention, kept and protected you in my loving arms to work in my plan of salvation and to write My Word for humanity."

Each person enters this world with a vocation predetermined in God, and when chosen, He will keep and protect them in His loving arms. So now, when God lets me know about the life of Saint Joseph and Mother Mary, I understand very deeply, even though I do not have much knowledge of the Bible. Because God has done in my life what He did in the lives of Mother Mary and Saint Joseph—so many miraculous things.

Truly, the grace of God is given gratuitously because of God's love for humanity. As I have experienced in my own life, the reason my spouse and I can now live a life of Chastity so easily is because of the grace God grants me; by my own strength, I could not. But I also have to obey God absolutely, from the big things to the small. Whatever He says, I follow, to the point that I once foolishly said to God: Why don't You give me freedom, when others have it? But now I see that I need to retract that statement and say to God: Lord, thank you for taking away my freedom, so that now, I am happy to walk in the grace of God without anything hindering me from following Him, even though I have, am, and will encounter countless difficulties. Just be obedient. Ladies and gentlemen, I dare to say this to everyone: Just believe, love, revere, and obey, and miracles will happen. Thanks be to God, Mother Mary, and Saint Joseph; now, their example has encouraged me and increased my faith, love, and surrender to Almighty God, and given me an indescribable joy as I follow God in my consecrated vocation in the work of the new era, the Era of the Holy Spirit.

The Diligence of Saint Joseph

Diligence, or the virtue of perseverance and hard work, is a phrase Vietnamese people use to praise those who are always attentive, always listening, always obedient, always loving, and zealous in all things for the sake of others, always dedicating their whole heart, mind, and entire being for their neighbor. Here, Saint Joseph was devoted and diligent in collaborating with God's plan of salvation in very small duties. But they were only small in the eyes of the world; to God, his mission was immensely noble.

First of all, Saint Joseph was a hardworking laborer. He obeyed the will of God, joyfully accepting the work God entrusted to him, which was carpentry—a small and humble profession for the Jewish people at that time. He worked diligently, sacrificing himself completely with the responsibility of a head of the family in Nazareth. An exemplary head of the family, characterized by silence. Because we do not see the Bible record a single word of his, only the words of Mother Mary and the actions of Saint Joseph.

The actions of Saint Joseph demonstrate a silence in contemplation, in obedience, and in love. The silence of Saint Joseph was not a sullenness or a withdrawal, but a silence full of listening, a diligent silence, a silence that revealed his noble inner life.

Through the diligent example of Saint Joseph, God wishes to convey a message to every individual, especially those living a life consecrated to God: persevere in your work in silence, labor diligently with joy, and joyfully accept every task entrusted to you by God the Father with all your love, a spirit of responsibility, and the fulfillment of your duties in obedience and fear of God.

Therefore, God always demands the following of those who work for Him:

“You must sacrifice in service and give yourself entirely for the work of the Father; you must work for the Father with excellence; you must work with all your soul and all your mind; you must share with your neighbor everything you possess to be pleasing to God.” And, “When you have done everything you were commanded to do, say: ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”

Because God sees all things and always sends His angels to follow and record the merits of each person, do not be afraid or compare and calculate gains and losses. When God entrusts you with a task, do not think it lacks value or that you must do something else because it is more important. Never think or act in such a way! For with God, there is no great or small work, no noble or lowly work; He only demands a heart of love. God does not demand the results of the work, but rather the love that the human heart puts into it.

Like Saint Joseph, who lived silently and quietly in a small corner of the home in Nazareth, his virtuous example still illuminates every generation and every member of the Church and human society.

Another outstanding virtue of Saint Joseph is the virtue of courage.

God wants all His children to follow the example of Saint Joseph in courageously accepting the trials that God sends.

Saint Joseph courageously took Mary into his home while she was pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit, a decisive act born of absolute trust in the power of God. He was determined to accept all the risks and hardships following the angel's message. This was the courage to face the unjust cruelty of ecclesiastical and secular authorities, and the uncertainty of the migration that forced him to leave his homeland. And there were many other courageous acts throughout his earthly journey as he cared for and protected the Holy Family until he was called home by God.

Through this, God wants all His children to follow the courageous example of Saint Joseph, to be determined to follow God until their last breath, to be determined to carry their cross each day and follow God up to Calvary, and to courageously follow Him into His passion through the direct or indirect purification of God, through neighbors, and through the events that God sends into their lives, without fear or retreat.

But to receive the grace of courage like Saint Joseph, God wants all His children to live as Saint Joseph lived: be truly humble, truly self-effacing, truly simple, to be empty of heart in all matters and entrust everything to God; and above all, to obey God absolutely, so that God may manifest His power and strength in humanity. Only then will people have the strength of grace and the light of God to walk the entire path that God desires.

We have learned about the virtue of diligence in Saint Joseph's labor and moral life. Now, God wants everyone to continue reflecting on another beautiful virtue of Saint Joseph: silence.

As mentioned above, his silence reflects a deep interior life: when he learned that Mary was pregnant before they lived together, the saint did not become angry, did not speak much, and did not doubt or judge the Virgin Mary, but retreated into silence to seek the will of God. The proof is that God sent His angel to explain everything and resolve his dilemma.

Then, throughout his mission of caring for and protecting the Virgin Mary and the child Jesus, Saint Joseph worked in silence and prayer, without questioning, without hesitation, and without overthinking, but in every action, he followed the guidance of the Holy Spirit speaking within him, in prayer, and in dreams at night, unlike us in the modern age who are fortunate to have the Real Word of God. Through this, God allows humanity today to understand a truth recorded in the Book of Wisdom regarding the Word when He entered the world: “While night was in the midst of its course, Your Word came down from heaven.” In silence, God became incarnate as man. Also in the silence on the Cross, God gave the Holy Spirit, and in silence, He rose again.

Speaking of Saint Joseph's silence, I also want to share a little of my own experience when God first came to me and arranged to meet me at midnight. Only now do I understand His mysterious will through the journey of my life and the New Era work of the Holy Spirit, which has been ongoing for over 10 years. Midnight is the time when the universe is still, the moment of transition from one day to the next. God tells us: That is the moment God meets humanity. And that is the reason why God wants humanity to pray to Him at midnight.

Dear Bishops, Priests, Religious men and women, and listeners following the Voice of Truth program.

These are the things that God wants me to share with everyone on this day when the whole Church and the Heavenly Court rejoice with Saint Joseph to praise God for His immense love for humanity, through His choosing and calling of Saint Joseph in His work of salvation. And now, in the work of Sanctification, God wants humanity to look to Saint Joseph with the outstanding virtues I have just shared to follow his example of living a just and holy life right here on this earth.

My sharing has come to an end. I would like to thank the Bishops, Priests, Religious, and all of you for listening to my sharing. I pray that God, Mother Mary, and Saint Joseph will bless and grant you peace. I bid you farewell and look forward to seeing you again.