Our Lord chooses the poor and simple for His greatest works: how comforting!

(St. Joseph and the Child Jesus represented in the Cathedral of St. Mary Magdalen in 

Saint-Maximin, France)

"When we are blinded by pride or beset by ambition, when human greatness draws us after it, can we do better than turn our thoughts and gaze to the high road leading from Nazareth to Bethlehem, and learn a lesson of humility. St. Joseph...this simple carpenter, is he whom God, refusing the protection of the powerful and great ones of this world, has chosen to be the guardian of His childhood, the guide of His youth and the companion of His mortal life for about thirty years....By such lessons we recognize our God incarnate, Who came to overthrow our pride by treading underfoot our human greatness."

~ L'Abbe Max Caron, "The Expectation of Jesus: Meditations for Every Day in Advent", 1900.

Imagine the lowly carpenter leading a donkey, on which is seated his beautiful but poor wife, who is with Child. 

The Child. 

The Child the world has awaited since the fall of Adam. He cometh!