Showing posts with label St. Joseph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Joseph. Show all posts
May 1st: St. Joseph, The Worker
Genesis 1:26 - 2:3 / Matthew 13:54-58
Jesus identifies himself with workers: “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?”
St. Joseph the Worker, May 1
Genesis 1:26 - 2:3 / Matthew 13:54-58
Jesus identifies himself with workers: “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?”
Lent 4th Week: March 15-20:
Lent 4th Week: March 15-20:
March 15 Monday: Jn 4:43-54: USCCB video reflections
http://www.usccb.org/bible/reflections/index.cfm
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/daily-reflections/
Fr. Tony (http://frtonyshomilies.com/(L/21).
The context: According to John’s Gospel, after facing rejection by his hometown, Nazareth, Jesus went to Jerusalem in Judea for the Passover feast. From Jerusalem, Jesus returned to Galilee and to his headquarters, Capernaum, where people received him as a miracle-working preacher and
May 1st: Feast of St. Joseph, the Worker - Prayer
Glorious St. Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labour, obtain for us the grace to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above our many concerns; to work with thankfulness and joy, responsibility and commitment, considering it an honour to employ and develop, by means of labour, the gifts received from God; to work with order, peace, prudence and patience, never surrendering too quickly and too long to weariness or difficulties; to work, above all, with purity of intention, and with detachment from self, having always the gift of God before our eyes and the account which we must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success so fatal to the work of God. All for Jesus, all for Mary, all after your example, O Patriarch Joseph. Such shall be our motto in life unto death.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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