existence in the light of Nazareth Spiritually we come from the family of Nazareth. Jesus, Mary and Joseph light up our lives in all of its stages. This section contains articles about major events in life
while Quirinius was governor of Syria, and everyone went to be registered, each to his own town. So Joseph set out from the town of Nazareth in Galilee for Judaea, to David's town called Bethlehem, since [...] and see this event which the Lord has made known to us.' So they hurried away and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. When they saw the child they repeated what they had been told
g Our Lady of Altagracia! The image shows the Virgin in prayer before the Baby Jesus, with Saint Joseph behind her. Nina’s father excitedly offered to buy it from the man, but the latter would take no [...] Madonna lies the Child Jesus on a mat of straw, naked. Somewhat in the distance behind them is Saint Joseph, dressed in a red cape with a candle in his left hand.
the Roman city of Galilee Sephoris, the capital of Galilee, was only a few miles from Nazareth. Joseph probably helped rebuild the city. Mary would visit its market from time to time. There Jesus came [...] alert mind. He discovered the Temple with its priests, its merchants, and its motley and noisy crowd. Joseph recited the traditional blessing: "Blessed are you, Lord, who freed me from the responsibility of
like all mothers, felt distress for her child: remember, among others, those three days she and Joseph frantically searched for their son on their way back from Jerusalem; while all along Jesus was among [...] His childhood and youth – therefore in addition to the joys of child rearing, alongside her spouse Joseph , were the joys of daily contemplating the incarnate Verb humbly given unto the considerate care
Each Sabbath Joseph and Jesus donned their taillit or prayer shawls and went to the synagogue, while Mary prepared the table for the feast. Indeed, on Friday evening women had the privilege to begin the [...] daily work taken in this light took on very distinctive nobility. Each morning in their home when Joseph and Jesus recited the Shema Israel and the prayer of Shemone Esre (or the Jewish prayer of 18 Blessings)
church and dedicate it to the Virgin Mary: "If you accord us ice on the river for the feast of Saint Joseph, we will not destroy your church, but we will dedicate to your Holy Rosary," he pleaded. The Ice [...] of them volunteers, they carted over the stones for eight days in a row, until the octave of Saint Joseph, without any incidents ... When the last of the necessary loads had made the crossing, the ice began
at Kefr Kenna, also in Galilee. The tomb, so-called of the “Just” (as it could be the tomb of St. Joseph, Mary’s husband), is beneath the Monastery of the Sisters of Nazareth, not far from the Basilica [...] several other remains from the time of Jesus, such as the workshop which tradition attributes to Joseph, where Jesus worked... At Choziba the grotto, where the angel told St. Joachim, the father of the
humble and given over to God through her everyday activities: her house- and gardenwork, assisting Joseph, educating Jesus, praying as a family and at the synagogue, her social life and interaction with [...] mothers …and yet her child was He who would become the Savior of the world! In Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph would mainly raise the Verb of God made man during the first thirty hidden years of his life, a whole
The Marianists In 1797, blessed William Joseph Chaminade, a priest from Bordeaux was constrained to flee in terror after the outbreak of the french revolution. He was forced to immigrate to Zaragoza, Spain
