Letters of St. Joseph Marello

PRESENTATION

The Letters are the surest and most vivid evidence of Saint Joseph Marello’s personality, for they allow us to gather individual instances of his precious life, as if to capture living scenes preserved for all times.

The Letters thus become the first ray of light emanating from Marello’s person. This light reaches us and penetrates us without the tinsel of our own rationalizations: it is direct lightning, destined to accomplish so much good for those who are docilely open to receive and welcome it.

The Gospel, the Holy Spirit, the Blessed Virgin, and her husband St. Joseph appear herein as the immediate spiritual teachers. So too Saint Marello, so personally present in the early letters of his youth with his spirit of friendship and involvement in the problems of his time, gradually withdraws from the limelight to become simply a Guide who takes us by the hand and leads us to the most intimate secrets of Christian living.

From him we can truly “Learn the language of the Saints.”

In him we find profusely abundant words of faith, the secrets of virtue, and the examples of a life “hidden with Christ in God,” in imitation of St. Joseph, the Saint of faith, silence, and active service of Jesus and Mary.

With him we gain strength for our own lives, so that “we poor children may walk safely down unexplored paths.”