January 4, 2021
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January 4, 2021
Got a blog or website? Spread devotion to St. Joseph all year long. Grab a Virtual St. Joseph Altar badge for your site or blog. On Facebook? Join us and stay in the loop.
December 8, 2020
On December 8, 1870, Pope Pius IX declared St. Joseph Patron of the Catholic Church. The Pope also raised the March 19th feast to the rank of double of the first class. Happy 150th anniversary, St. Joseph! Viva San Giuseppe! Read more…
July 8, 2020
The Church assigns a devotion to each day of the week. Wednesday has traditionally been set aside for St. Joseph. So, let’s not just think of St. Joseph on his two Feast days because every Wednesday is St. Joseph’s Day! The following Read more…
Back in 2015, when I started searching for a sleeping St. Joseph statue they were hard to come by. There are more choices out there now, but the best deal I found was from Autom.com. I purchased the 8″, but Read more…
July 3, 2020
St. Joseph is the patron saint of a wide variety of things and places: against doubt against hesitation bursars cabinetmakers carpenters Church confectioners craftsmen dying people emigrants engineers expectant mothers families fathers happy death holy death house hunters immigrants interior Read more…
June 30, 2020
Needed now more than ever! Taken from Fr. Hardon’s Catholic Prayer Book with Meditations: Protector of Holy ChurchHaving besought the aid of your most holy bride, we turn to you in our distress, blessed Joseph, and confidently invoke your protection too. Read more…
December 22, 2013
by Rev. Robert BurkemperPastor, All Souls Church, Overland, Missouri Reprinted from a December 22, 2013 parish bulletin: The strength of what we believe is measured by how much we are willing to suffer for those beliefs. Saint Joseph was a man with strong beliefs. Read more…