Transfiguration of Joe

This week is awesome! Last Sunday we celebrated the Sunday of Transfiguration, yesterday was the Solemnity of St. Joseph, next Tuesday will be the Solemnity of the Annunciation. Today, I'd like to take some time and talk about last Sunday.

Everyday, the Church prays the Liturgy of the Hours, which consists of praying the Psalms five times a day (seven times for some). The first of the "hours" is called the Office of Readings, and in the Office of Readings, we pray three psalms, and two other spiritual readings (one scriptural and the other not). The scriptural reading for last Sunday's Office of Readings, was the exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt (Ex. 13:17-14:9).

Why do I bring this up? because verse 19 says, "Moses also took Joseph’s bones with him." I've already made the point that many theologians and saints believe that this passage offers a reason to believe that Joe was resurrected and assumed body and soul into heaven already with Jesus and Mary (First Rule of Engineering: Make Good Assumptions).

So next question: Why this reading on this day? Last Sunday's Gospel reading was St. Luke's account of the Transfiguration (Luke 9:28-36), where we learn that Jesus, whose body was glorified, was talking with Moses and Elijah about his own exodus.

Furthermore, in the Office of Readings we read from a sermon by Pope St. Leo the Great:
"The whole body of Christ was to understand the kind of transformation that it would receive as his gift. The members of that body were to look forward to a share in that glory which first blazed out in Christ their head.
The Lord had himself spoken of this when he foretold the splendor of his coming: Then the just [righteous] will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Matt. 13:43). St. Paul the apostle bore witness to this same truth when he said: I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not to be compared with the future glory that is to be revealed in us (Romans 8:18) In another place he says: You are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory (Colossians 3:4)."

If Joe is a "just/righteous man," (Matt. 1:19) then will he not "shine like the sun..." too?
Did he not suffer greatly? Imagine then the greatness of his glory.
Joe was dead, and his life was hidden with Christ in God. So he too was revealed with Christ in glory.