Fr Charlie points out that Joseph ultimately worked through his feelings of betrayal and abandonment at the hands of his brothers. While we may not have been sold into slavery as Joseph was, many of us have felt abandoned and betrayed. With God’s help and each other’s support, hopefully we, like Joseph in today’s first reading, can get beyond those feelings.
Joseph concealed his own identity from them and spoke sternly to them… But turning away from them, he wept.
GN 41:55-57; 42:5-7A, 17-24A
Jesus sent out [the] Twelve after instructing them … [to] make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.'”
MT 10:1-7