Category: StJoseph

  • Joey, Joe, or Joseph?

    Joey, Joe, or Joseph?

    This is an edited repost from 2021. THERE IS A TRADITION that St Joseph was much older that the Blessed Virgin when they were betrothed. One saint suggests that Jesus’ Foster Father was 91 when he married the Blessed Virgin! Other teachers, suggest mid-fifties. The reason for this tradition is generally understood to be the…

  • Joey, Joe, or Joseph?

    Joey, Joe, or Joseph?

    THERE IS A TRADITION that St Joseph was older that the Blessed Virgin when they were betrothed. One saint suggests that Jesus’ Foster Father was 91 when he married the Blessed Virgin! Other, more realistic teachers, suggest mid-fifties. The reason for this tradition is generally understood to be the idea that an older Joseph would…

  • Prayers Before Work

    Prayers Before Work

    FROM THE OFFICE of Prime in the older breviary, these prayers asking for the intercession of the saints and God’s blessing on the day’s labors happen just before the Monks go out to their various chores. They make a good morning boundary between “work at home” and “home at home”. Pope St Pius X gave…

  • A family like yours or mine…

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for TuesdayToday is  in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Joseph the Worker Acts 14:19-28 John 14:27-31A Quoniam per multas tribulationes oportet nos intrare in regnum Dei. Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God. Today is the Memorial of St Joseph the Worker. I think Joseph knew tribulations:…

  • The Strong, Silent Type.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Solemnity of St Joseph Monday in Passion Week (B2) II Samuel  7:4-5A, 12-14A, 16 Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22  Luke 2:41-51A For this Just Man was given by you a spouse to the Virgin Mother of God and set a s a wise and faithful servant in charge of your…

  • Ite ad Ioseph

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Sunday 4 Advent (Year 2): II Kings (2 Samuel) 7:1-5, 8B-12, 14A, 16 Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38 Vade, et loquere ad servum meum David: Hæc dicit Dominus: Numquid tu ædificabis mihi domum ad habitandum? Quare non ædificastis mihi domum cedrinam?Go, and say to my servant David: Thus saith the Lord: Shalt…

  • We wanna go back to Egypt.

    + JMJ Today’s readings: Numbers 21:4B-9 Philippians 2:6-11 John 3:13-17 Cur eduxisti nos de Ægypto, ut moreremur in solitudine? deest panis, non sunt aquæ: anima nostra jam nauseat super cibo isto levissimo. Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted…

  • Making Up for Whatever is Lacking

    +J+M+J+ Today’s readings: Colossians 1:24–2:3 Luke 6:6-11 Adimpleo ea quæ desunt passionum Christi, in carne mea pro corpore ejus, quod est Ecclesia. In my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his Body, which is the Church… Colossians 1:24b You have to admit that’s a shocker.…

  • Work? What Work?

    Today’s Readings: 2 Samuel 7:4-5A, 12-14A, 16 Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22 Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24A Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. Joseph, fili David, noli timere accipere Mariam conjugem tuam.Matthew 1:20 You’ll admit that Joseph was brave.What would people say?And goodness knows that Jesus would never…