In Nazareth, it’s worked, it’s prayed and it’s loved.

     Observing the picture appears at first sight, the Holy Family working:  Joseph next to the bank of his workshop, Mary, in front of him, maintains on her knees the works that she is doing; she sews; for a moment she has suspended the movement of the needle and contemplates Jesus obedience that, when being called by Joseph, he has just grabbed a hammer and a wooden piece and listens the orders that his legal father gives him.

    The love and union of Mary and Joseph are expressed by the proximity and the disposition of the persons. Jesus appears as the knot that unites physically and materially the two sacred husbands. Mainly the look unites them: those of the heart and of the soul that Mary and Joseph has put on him.

    Three people are united in an act of obedience of Jesus that Joseph orders and Mary admires.

    But Jesus, that is the knot of union in the picture, is also the figure that expresses the prayer very particularly. With the ears he receives St. Joseph’s orders, his father in the earth, but his eyes contemplate another Father, in particular that, in the high of the sky, manifests him his will through St. Joseph.

    Mary doesn’t forget a moment her Son's divine relationship with the celestial Father and the interior enchantment is such that she experiences when seeing how he obeys humbly an entire God that fixes his look in his Son’s movements.

    Saint Joseph, at the same time that he gives their orders, he doesn’t lose of view that his son and apprentice takes the light of God and for that reason, at the same time that he gives him orders, he lowers the eyes before his Creator’s wisdom, in an praying attitude of admiration and adoration.

    The prayer, the love and the work are, represented in our picture. The work appears with more evidence but above all Jesus obedience appears, the application of the evangelical word:  “He was subject”.

(Documents from archives, 1935)