St. Joseph was called by God to serve the person and mission of Jesus directly through the exercise of his fatherhood. It is precisely in this way that, as the Church's Liturgy teaches, he “cooperated in the fullness of time in the great mystery of salvation” and is truly a “minister of salvation.” His fatherhood is expressed concretely “in his having made his life a service, a sacrifice to the mystery of the Incarnation and to the redemptive mission connected with it; in having used the legal authority which was his over the Holy Family in order to make a total gift of self, of his life and work; in having turned his human vocation to domestic love into a superhuman oblation of self, an oblation of his heart and all his abilities into love placed at the service of the Messiah growing up in his house.” ~ St. John Paul II, “Apostolic Exhortation Redemptoris Custos of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on the Person and Mission of Saint Joseph in the Life of Christ and the Church”
Author’s note: St. Joseph is of great worth to all Christians, but especially to those men who suffer with same sex attraction. If you had a neglectful or absent father, or you were abused by a man you trusted, were rejected by your male peers, or because of pornography grew up confused about what it truly is to be a man – look to Joseph for a model of masculine purity: as he did, make your life a sacrifice; give all to God – including those secret and shameful parts of yourself, or those proud and boastful places of acceptance and security (holding on to the gay orientation.) For, you cannot be a true servant of Christ if you are still holding back, or holding on to something; i.e. I am gay and a Christian.