God is inviting us, through Joseph, to cut down on our talking and, like him, be better listeners and doers of His Word. As St. John of the Cross wisely says, “what is wanting, if anything is wanting, is not writing or speaking - rather these usually superabound - but silence and work.”

O venerable St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus,
who promised to bless us with a shower of roses,
we ask that during this time
you shed the fragrance of your roses.

-Fr. Luis Gerardo Belmonte-Luna, OCD