Name: St. Joseph Adoring the Christ Child
SKU: 12475
Availability: InStock

St. Joseph Adoring the Christ Child

$15.00 – $50.00

The darkness of that holy night is broken by the radiance of the Light of the World.

Prints larger than 5×7 are archival giclee prints, prints larger than 8×10 are drop shipped from an accredited giclee archival print company. Please note that drop shipping can take up to 5 business days to ship, and that larger prints always take longer. Thank you for your patience!!!

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Description

St. Joseph leans in, filled with awe and joy at the Child Jesus. The Messiah, finally here on Earth. His hands folded in adoration, and down on one knee, his posture springs up, out, and around, crashing back down on Jesus. He wears green for his fidelity to God, and is covered in the brown of humility and poverty, and as a symbol of carpentry.

Our Lady, filled with a peaceful joy, sits and supports Jesus in her lap as she covers Him in her mantle, blue for divinity and heaven. Traditionally Mary wears red and blue for her humanity (red) was covered in the divinity of God (blue) and here the sacred wrapping comes under Jesus and then loops around her body, flowing up and down, back and forth, and crashing back in on Jesus. Her veil is white in symbolism of her purity and perpetual virginity. It also creates a steppingstone between the shining star of Bethlehem and the small, swaddled, body of Our Lord.

Jesus sleeps, head resting on His little hand. Completely safe and secure.

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Painted as a comission for the Discalced Carmelite monks of San Jose, CA for the holy card of their annual benefit dinner, Joseph resembles the statue of St. Joseph the monks processed up the hill when they first built the monastery. They are currently planning on building a shrine to St. Joseph, and their benefit theme was St. Joseph: Leading us into New Life.

To learn more about the order, you can visit their website here. 10% of the proceeds from specifically this painting will be donated to the order, instead of my usual tithing locations.

Have a commission idea? Feel free to email me at outpouringoftrust@gmail.com

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Purchase does not include frame.

Staging photos are not necessarily accurate representations of the size of the image, but simply give an idea of the image in a room. Please measure your actual wall before deciding.

Images subject to copyright, copyright Monica Skrzypczak. Do not reproduce without explicit written permission. To use the image in print at your parish, or any other use, feel free to email me with the project and number of copies estimated for a quote on a temporary license.