April 25, 1654, he presided at the first official pilgrimage to Laghet. ___________________ Father Joseph Simon Official website
"prophecy" itself: the centre is found where the vision becomes a summons and a guide to the will of God. Joseph Card. Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith "The message of Fatima"
Boston, Other Places of Marian Devotion Carmel, Monastery of Our Lady and St Joseph In November 1889, Boston's Archbishop Williams was in Baltimore, while there, he visited the Baltimore Carmelite Monastery
It seems to me that Jesus, Mary and Joseph spoke between themselves - and quite a lot probably - but what about? In my opinion their conversations must have centered on the only topic that really interested [...] just think of that! And through this conjecture we can also begin to understand something of St. Joseph's preoccupations, entering in the game of the hiding God, to be answerable for his child Jesus. For [...] discuss Jesus or the popular expectation of the universal Messiah, without people suspecting anything. Joseph, a man of difficult tasks A man of difficult tasks in many ways, and especially for keeping a secret
Virgin Mary. And most men wore the rosary attached to their garments. Joseph II and the submission of the Church to the State In 1765, Joseph II became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and co-regent of the Habsburg [...] Hungary again became an autonomous nation, though still federated with Austria. The Emperor Francis Joseph and the Empress Elizabeth were crowned in the Marian Church of the royal palace. (2) In the turmoil
the Name At the circumcision Joseph names the child "Jesus." This is the only name in which there is salvation (cf. Acts 4:12). Its significance had been revealed to Joseph at the moment of his "annunciation": [...] circumcision was the first religious obligation of a father, and with this ceremony (cf. Lk 2:21) Joseph exercised his right and duty with regard to Jesus. The principle which holds that all the rites of [...] child Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins" (cf. Mt 1:21). In conferring the name, Joseph declares his own legal fatherhood over Jesus, and in speaking the name he proclaims the child's mission
Despite the unique nature of the virginal marriage of Mary and Joseph, and the purely divine fertility in Mary's womb, the Holy Family had an exterior daily life just like other families. On a human level [...] God and to the Israeli traditions. The neighbors knew more or less the other members of Mary and Joseph's family. Everyone knew who were Mary's parents, Joachim and Anna, and who were her cousins, amongst [...] Elizabeth prepare for the birth of John the Baptist, as well as awaiting the birth of her own Son. Joseph (whose geneology is known from the Bible in Matthew 1:1-16), also had uncles and cousins living in
With Mary and Joseph, the sanctification of daily life Nazareth isn't just a geographical place. It is above all a temple of God's grace. The longest period of Christ's life unfolded anonymously, but as [...] redemptive presence. In all this how could we forget, next to Mary, the action and presence of St. Joseph, whose irreplaceable role of father and master make of him a minister of salvation? By his obedience [...] parents (Lk 2: 51) Jesus willed to sanctify family and work duties - the work which he did with St. Joseph. All said and done, this is really about the sanctification of everyday life. What is not assumed
obedience of the faith, united them. Let us discover one of the crucial sources of unity in Mary and Joseph’s marriage: both lived the obedience of the faith which opened for them broader perspectives and helped [...] unity. Sharing feelings also united them. Later, when the Child stayed behind in Jerusalem, Mary and Joseph, who were terribly worried, did not fall for the common temptation of couples, of blaming the other [...] makes one grow. One who knows how to obey will know how to command. And as we have seen, Mary and Joseph knew how to obey. ______________________________ Pablo Largo Dominguez Excerpt from María, microcosmos
David. So he is of royal descent. But from whom is he descended? According to the gospels, it is Joseph who gives his adoptive son his royal line from David. This is of great importance because the Messiah [...] is Jesus’ mother descended? An initial hypothesis, the simplest one, suggests that Mary, wife of Joseph, was also of David’s line. In this case, Jesus would unquestionably be “made of the seed of David [...] where people from the same tribe, or indeed from the same clan, readily married each other, that Joseph would choose as his wife a young lady from the same line of David as himself? “Take a wife of the
