Today is the feast day of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin. Like many Catholic men, Saint Joseph is my hero. Here’s a man who was the step-father of the Son of God yet we don’t know a single word he ever said. We don’t even know when he died. The last reference we [...]
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It’s March 19, the Feast of Saint Joseph. Here in the United States we really kind of shortchange Joseph. We wear the white vestments to honor him, but we don’t celebrate the day as they do in other countries, especially in Italy. It’s probably because Joseph’s feast falls just two days after Saint Patrick’s Day [...]
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Wow! It’s the third Friday of Advent already. Christmas is just a week from today. You can tell it’s getting close, not just from the latest “biggest sale of the year”, but because the Church presents us with the story from Matthew’s gospel of how “the birth of Jesus Christ came about.” It’s such a [...]
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