Saint Joseph: February 2011

THE CHARITY OF JESUS IS EXTENDED TO ALL.

Happy the one who enjoys his graces.

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The Patronage of St. Joseph

What can I fear O St. Joseph?

You speak to me softly beneath your protective mantle.

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ST. JOSEPH

He has suffered with Jesus.

He reigns in heaven with Jesus.

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HASTEN TO JOSEPH

Through Joseph, you come to Jesus.

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Call to the people with faith and love.

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WITH JOSEPH, LET US GO TO MARY

Both lead us to Jesus.

Good St. Joseph, grant my desire.

St. Joseph husband of Mary and foster father of Jesus.

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St. Joseph

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GO TO JOSEPH

And do whatever he tells you.

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According to Traditon,

St. Joseph was believed to have been an older man.

[St. Joseph is patron of workers]

ITE AD JOSEPH - GO TO JOSEPH

This instruction was very popular in the age of faith.

SAINT JOSEPH

FOSTER FATHER OF FAITHFUL SOULS

Pray to St. Joseph, he is the protector of childhood,

the model and guardien of pure hearts -

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St. Teresa's words on St. Joseph

"I took for my advocate and lord the glorious Saint Joseph and commended myself earnestly to him... I do not remember even now that I have ever asked anything of him which he has failed to grant. I am astonished at the great favors which God has bestowed on me through this blessed saint, and at the perils from which He has freed me, both in body and in soul. To other saints the Lord seems to have given grace to succor us in some of our necessities but of this glorious saint my experience is that he succors us in them all and that the Lord wishes to teach us that as He was Himself subject to him on earth (for, being His guardian and being called His father, he could command Him) just so in Heaven He still does all that he asks. This has also been the experience of other persons whom I have advised to commend themselves to him; and even today there are many who have great devotion to him through having newly experienced this truth."

"I wish I could persuade everyone to be devoted to this glorious saint, for I have great experience of the blessings which he can obtain from God. I have never known anyone to be truly devoted to him and render him particular services who did not notably advance in virtue, for he gives very real help to souls who commend themselves to him. For some years now, I think, I have made some request of him every year on his festival and I have always had it granted. If my petition is in any way ill directed, he directs it aright for my greater good."

" I only beg, for the love of God, that anyone who does not believe me will put what I say to the test, and he will see by experience what great advantages come form his commending himself to this glorious patriarch and having devotion to him. Those who practice prayer should have a special affection for him always... If anyone cannot find a master to teach him how to pray, let him take this glorious saint as his master, and he will not go astray."

"I do not know how anyone can think of the Queen of the Angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Child Jesus, without giving thanks to him for the help he gave her."

All quotations above are taken from The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

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