Saint Joseph with Doves Statue
- Handcrafted Dolomite Stone and Resin Statuette
- 14 inches
- Symbol of Christian Veneration of Saint Joseph
- Each Piece Varies Slightly
- Made in France
Product Description
This Saint Joseph with Doves Statue is a beautiful representation of St. Joseph bringing the offering of two turtledoves (the offering of the poor) to the Temple (Luke 2:21-24). This statue makes a stunning gift for a wedding or a wedding anniversary, an ordination or ordination anniversary, a profession or jubilee of religious vows or for home or chapel.
Saint Joseph with Doves: an Impressive Labor of Love, Hope and Faith
This statuette of Saint Joseph with Doves stands 14 inches tall and is fashioned from dolomite stone and resin. A religious community of cloistered sisters conceives, creates and hand-finishes every statuette in their monastery atelier in Western Europe. Each religious sister prayerfully fulfills a particular task required for the completion of each piece. The sisters’ work is an impressive labor of love, hope and faith.
Saint Joseph, the Model Husband
The Saint Joseph with Doves statuette tells us three things about Joseph, essential to his character and to making it possible for Mary to say “Yes” to God’s plan for her: Joseph is a just man who, after discovering Mary pregnant from someone else, did not want to expose her to public disgrace (and perhaps even to being stoned to death for adultery). Joseph has chosen to marry Mary and to raise her child as his own. Joseph is a poor man who could only afford the “poor man’s offering” of two turtledoves instead of the lamb for a burnt offering and the turtledove for a sin offering. Perhaps instead of being “poor,” Joseph is, more accurately, “of low-income” since he is able to make a living and provide for his family as an artisan (tekton), probably in carpentry, a trade which he will some day pass on to Jesus. Finally, Joseph is dependable. Joseph saved Mary from public disgrace and possible stoning, he became her husband and raised her child, he protected her and Jesus from harm. Joseph was, in other words, always there when he was needed. Joseph is the model of the good husband: faithful, dependable, hardworking and a fulfilled family man.
Luke 2:21-24
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise the child, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he was conceived. When the time came for the purification rites required by the Law of Moses, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”), and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.”
from the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary:
22, 24. her purification—Though the most and best copies read “their,” it was the mother only who needed purifying from the legal uncleanness of childbearing. “The days” of this purification for a male child were forty in all (Le 12:2, 4), on the expiry of which the mother was required to offer a lamb for a burnt offering, and a turtle dove or a young pigeon for a sin offering. If she could not afford a lamb, the mother had to bring another turtle dove or young pigeon; and, if even this was beyond her means, then a portion of fine flour, but without the usual fragrant accompaniments of oil and frankincense, as it represented a sin offering (Le 12:6-8; 5:7-11). From the intermediate offering of “a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons,” we gather that Joseph and the Virgin were in poor circumstances (2Co 8:9), though not in abject poverty. Being a first-born male, they “bring him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord.” All such had been claimed as “holy to the Lord,” or set apart to sacred uses, in memory of the deliverance of the first-born of Israel from destruction in Egypt, through the sprinkling of blood (Ex 13:2). In lieu of these, however, one whole tribe, that of Levi, was accepted, and set apart to occupations exclusively sacred (Nu 3:11-38); and whereas there were two hundred seventy-three fewer Levites than first-born of all Israel on the first reckoning, each of these first-born was to be redeemed by the payment of five shekels, yet not without being “presented (or brought) unto the Lord,” in token of His rightful claim to them and their service (Nu 3:44-47; 18:15, 16). It was in obedience to this “law of Moses,” that the Virgin presented her babe unto the Lord, “in the east gate of the court called Nicanor’s Gate, where she herself would be sprinkled by the priest with the blood of her sacrifice” [Lightfoot]. By that Babe, in due time, we were to be redeemed, “not with corruptible things as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ” (1Pe 1:18, 19), and the consuming of the mother’s burnt offering, and the sprinkling of her with the blood of her sin offering, were to find their abiding realization in the “living sacrifice” of the Christian mother herself, in the fulness of a “heart sprinkled from an evil conscience,” by “the blood which cleanseth from all sin.”
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| Weight | 4.95 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 15 x 7 x 7 in |
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