fruit. This is how Joseph was able to find his path in life and achieve success, beyond anything he could have hoped for. Excerpt from: Joseph, modèle de vie pour notre temps , ( Joseph, Model for Our Times) [...] contemporary mentality, Joseph proves to be a particularly powerful ally and remedy for our time. Far from wanting to control his own life and enjoy it according to his own plan, Joseph, on the contrary, gave [...] March 12 – Our Lady of the Elm (Italy, 1610) Joseph, Model for Our Times " Whoever loves his life will lose it " (Jn 12:25). That is why the Virgin Mary unceasingly invites us, in all her apparitions,
Our Lady of Miracles (Bari, Italy, 1576) Call on Saint Joseph's help in these difficult times In this month traditionally dedicated to Saint Joseph, and especially because the year 2021 has been entrusted [...] March 19th, the solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In addition, Marie de Nazareth is offering a virtual, printable novena to Saint Joseph starting tomorrow (10th) and concluding [...] Our Lady’s chaste spouse for the next nine days, to enable you to better grasp the magnitude of Joseph’s holiness, and hopefully inspire you to emulate him. The first of these meditations will begin on
19 - Feast of Saint Joseph, Husband of the Virgin Mary Blessings on Saint Joseph! Blessings on you, loving heart of Mary, for all the affection that you have for great Saint Joseph! Blessings on your noble [...] noble heart forever, Saint Joseph, for all the love that it held and will hold eternally for Jesus and Mary, for all the care that it provided for the needs of the Son and the Mother and for all the pains [...] contempt and ill treatment, which it saw them receiving on behalf of ungrateful people! Great Saint Joseph, we offer our hearts to you; bind them to yours, and to Jesus’ and Mary’s. Beg them to make this
honor of the Most Chaste Heart of Joseph on the Wednesday following the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The messages insist very much on the fact that Saint Joseph, who was on earth the protector of [...] May 7 – Our Lady of Monticino (Italy, 1776) This devotion to Saint Joseph was willed by Jesus and Mary The Virgin Mary has been appearing in Itapiranga, Brazil (state of Amazonas) since 1994, to seers [...] respect the laws of marriage. The messages also insist on God’s wish to spread devotion to Saint Joseph and his Most Chaste Heart, in union with the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate
May 1 – Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker – Our Lady of Laus (France, 1664) The world's breath broke against Joseph Mary says: “I, whom the Eternal had destined to be the Queen of his angels, had two angels [...] God, in perfuming more intensely out of charity for God and one's companion. … My holy and blessed Joseph! My heart does not cease to thank its Lord for having given him to me as a consort, for as a holy [...] living defense for my virginity, drawn out of the Temple, and the world's breath thus broke against Joseph, so that the din and stench of human baseness did not penetrate where the eternal Virgin continued
and divine motherhood. Joseph's modesty enveloped and protected the Holy Family. This modesty of Joseph was neither shame—an expression of self-loathing—nor prudery. Joseph’s modesty was the guarantee [...] March 20 – Our Lady of Abundance (Italy, 1603) Jesus and Mary found a safe refuge in Joseph’s modesty Joseph is a model of modesty. His modesty was made of silence, natural reserve and meditation. He preserved [...] answered reside—Jesus’ Amen and Mary’s fiat . Both Jesus and Mary found a safe refuge in Joseph's modesty. Joseph not only practiced modesty, but he teaches it to us. At his school, we learn that the secret
Lourdes (France, 1858) The story of Mary and Joseph inspires artists in New York City Centered around the relationship between the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, “The Miracle of Christmas” is a musical recounting [...] richer. There are more details in the songs,” said cast member Melissa Bijur, a former cantor at St Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights, who plays Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. “I think that during
Trinity: first, the Mother of God, and after her, Saint Joseph. All sanctified creatures are sanctified as a result of the Incarnation. Mary and Joseph also received the effects of the Redemptive Incarnation; [...] March 13 – Our Lady of Rose (Italy, 1635) Mary and Joseph: a different kind of holiness There are two creatures whose holiness is of a completely separate order, that is to say, who have an incomparable [...] way, for the very realization of the Incarnation. Canon Lallement Mystère de la paternité de Saint Joseph - Tequi 1986 - p. 34
January 29 – Our Lady of Nasturtiums (Italy, 1630) Why was Mary betrothed to Joseph? During a recent conference at the Franciscan University of Steubenville (Ohio, USA), a professor from Ireland, Pariac [...] Pariac Maher, recently invited listeners to explore the betrothal of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. Maher, author of the book “Betrothed” that explores artwork depicting the betrothal throughout Church [...] possible, since I am a virgin?’” Maher said that this was a strange reaction, since she was betrothed to Joseph, unless she knew she was going to be a virgin in the future. Maher explained that Mary lived in an
January 23 – Wedding of Mary and Joseph The “yes” of Joseph and the “yes” of Mary "When Joseph awoke, he did what the angel had commanded him and took his wife with him." (Mt 1:24) This phrase in the Gospel [...] Gospel speaks volumes about the harmony between Joseph and Mary. The Fiat of Mary and the Fia t of Joseph are the fulfillment of the original harmony between Adam and Eve, the perfect resumption of the [...] Mary receives an announcement (Lk 1:26-38) and so does Joseph (Mt 1:18-25). After a short dialogue with the Angel, Mary gives her assent. Joseph first thinks of parting ways with Mary until the angel reveals