Feast Day: March 19 - Earthly Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary
May 01- Joseph the Worker
- Profile
- Descendant of the house of
David.
Layman.
Carpenter. Earthly spouse of the
Blessed Virgin Mary. Foster and
adoptive
father of Jesus Christ. Visionary who was visited by angels. Noted
for his willingness to immediately get up and do what God told him.
- Died
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1st century, prior to the Passion, of natural causes
- Patronage
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against doubt,
against hesitation,
Americas,
Austria, diocese of
Baton Rouge California,
Belgium,
Bohemia,
bursars,
cabinetmakers,
Canada,
Carinthia,
carpenters,
China,
Church,
confectioners,
craftsmen,
Croatian people (in
1687 by decree of the Croatian parliment)
dying people,
emigrants,
engineers,
expectant mothers,
families,
fathers,
Florence Italy,
happy death,
holy death,
house hunters,
immigrants,
interior souls,
Korea,
laborers, diocese of
La Crosse Wisconsin,
archdiocese of
Louisville Kentucky, diocese of
Manchester New Hampshire,
Mexico, diocese of
Nashville Tennessee,
New France,
New World,
Oblates of Saint Joseph,
people in doubt,
people who fight Communism,
Peru,
pioneers,
pregnant women, protection of the Church, diocese of
San Jose California, diocese of
Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
social justice,
Styria Austria,
travellers,
Turin Italy,
Tyrol Austria,
unborn children
Universal Church,
Vatican II,
Viet Nam, diocese of
Wheeling-Charleston West Virginia,
wheelwrights,
workers,
working people
- Representation
- bible; capenter's square; carpenter's tools; chalice; cross; hand
tools; infant Jesus; ladder; lamb; lily; monstrance; old man holding a
lily and a carpenter's tool such as a square; old man holding the infant
Jesus; plane; rod
- Prayers
- Harry
Holbrook's collection
Litany to
Saint Joseph,
Novena to
Saint Joseph I,
Novena to
Saint Joseph II,
Prayer to...
I - 2 versions,
Prayer to...
V,
Prayer to...
II,
Prayer to...
III,
Prayer
Before Mass,
Prayer to...
...for the Whole Church,
Prayer to...
...for the Spirit of Work,
Prayer to...
...to Know One's Vocation,
Prayer for a
Happy Death,
Prayer to...
...patron of Carpenters,
Prayer to...
...the Workman,
Prayer to...
IV,
Prayer to...
...for Protection,
Prayer to...
...patron of Workers,
Prayer to...
VI,
Prayer to...
VII, The Josephites,
Prayer to...
VIII, Pope Saint Pius X,
Prayer to...
IX, the Pallottines
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- Reading
- He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and
protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine Son and Mary,
Joseph's wife. He carried out this vocation with complete fidelity until
at last God called him, saying 'Good and faithful servant, enter into
the joy of your Lord.'
from a sermon by Saint
Bernardine of Siena
There is a general rule concerning all special graces granted to any
human being. Whenever the divine favor chooses someone to receive a
special grace, or to accept a lofty vocation, God adorns the person
chosen with all the gifts of the Spirit needed to fulfill the task at
hand.
This general rule is especially verified in the case of Saint Joseph,
the foster-father of our Lord, and the husband of the Queen of our
world, enthroned above the angels. He was chosen by the eternal Father
as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures,
namely, his divine Son and Mary, Joseph's wife. He carried out this
vocation with complete fidelity until at last God called him, saying
"Good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord."
Remember us, Saint Joseph, and plead for us to your foster child. Ask
your most holy bride, the Virgin Mary, to look kindly upon us, since she
is the mother of him who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and
reigns eternally. Amen.
from a sermon by Saint
Bernardine of Siena
What emanates from the figure of Saint Joseph is faith...Joseph of
Nazareth is a "just man" because he totally "lives by faith." He is holy
because his faith is truly heroic.
Sacred Scripture says little of him. It does not record even one word
spoken by Joseph, the carpenter of Nazareth. And yet, even without
words, he shows the depth of his faith, his greatness.
Saint Joseph is a man of great spirit. He is great in faith, not because
he speaks his own words, but above all because he listens to the words
of the Living God. He listens in silence. And his heart ceaselessly
perseveres in the readiness to accept the Truth contained in the word of
the Living God.
We see how the word of the Living God penetrates deeply into the soul of
that man, that just man. And we, do we know how to listen to the word of
God? Do we know how to absorb it into the depths of our human
personalities? Do we open our conscience in the presence of this word?
Pope
John Paul II from Daily Meditations
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