[Teófilo]

Typos. Blunders. Mine.

[Teófilo]

PING!

[Talisker]

Nice post. Thanks.

[elcid1970]

“St. Joseph of Nazareth, chaste husband of Mary, and foster father of our Lord Jesus.”

For a moment there I thought it said that St. Joseph was a Tadjik. Wow! The Holy Family has a Central Asian connection?

Anyway, when you describe him as Mary’s chaste husband, you have kicked over a hornets’ nest. The Biblethumpers will soon be posting, “Jesus had brothers and sisters!!” while dropping unsubtle hints about Mariolatry.

Just watch.....

[redhead]

would the name “Melchizedek” be related?

[annalex]

St. Joseph was comprised into the highest order of creation, that of the hypostatic union

I think, Apostolic order is one thing, pertaining to degrees of sanctity, but hypostatic union means consubstantiality and so is quite another, and is properly reserved to the Holy Trinity only.

I would like to see if Suarez's "appertaining to the order of the Hypostatic Union" is really the same as St. Joseph -- or Blessed Mary -- being "comprised" into it. The seond quote, from Giovanni di Cartagena supports the sense of degrees of sanctity better than the sense of true hypostatic union.

[nanetteclaret]

Very beautiful! Thanks for this post.

[SuziQ]

Good article!

[Cvengr]

Interesting word study. Thanks.