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SPIRITUALITY OF
SAINT JOSEPH MANYANET
SON, WITNESS AND APOSTLE OF
THE HOLY FAMILY
The spiritual experience of
Joseph Manyanet as lived
in the House of Nazareth
prompted him to present the Holy Family
as model for all families.
“Paternity is similar to priesthood,”
he said.
“In the house of Holy
Family, Joseph Manyanet discovered
the essential of the family
and the culture of the heart and of the
mind.”
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Father Manyanet forged the vocation that
he had received from God in the contemplation of the Holy
Family. He designed the itinerary of his spiritual life and his
apostolic activity: to put into practice and announce to the
world the Gospel of Nazareth. His entire apostolic life was
spent in promoting God’s plan for marriage and the
family. He promoted and defended its identity, its nature, its
stability and mission.
He asserted that that “paternity is
similar to the priesthood”, therefore his teachings to
the parents was that their lives be open to the Gospel and that
they endeavor to transmit the Gospel to their children through
the small events of everyday as is shown to us in the
“youth years” of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In
the house of the Holy Family, Joseph Manyanet discovered
the essential of the family and there learned the pedagogy of
“the culture of the heart and of the mind” for the
benefit of the children and youth. The life of Joseph Manyanet
was like a parable of mission: to live the communion of
Nazareth and propose its value to society by all the means that
were within his command.