The Antiphons of Saint Joseph
The Antiphons for Saint Joseph are some of the most delightful Antiphons of the Year. The series of five psalm Antiphons recounts one of the...
St. Joseph and the Benedictines of Perpetual Adoration
O Felicem Virum! “O Happy and Blessed Man,” so begins an antiphon in honor of St. Joseph. “To thee was granted not only to...
The Holy Family Consecration of Silverstream Priory to Saint Joseph
Devotion to the Holy Family began with the modern conception of the family that seems to have begun to develop in the High Middle Ages...
Saint Joseph and Mother Mectilde
Here again is a translation of the account of Saint Joseph’s apparition to Mother Mectilde de Bar on 19 March 1653. Mother Mectilde, very much...
Praying to Saint Joseph for Silverstream Priory
O glorious Saint JOSEPH, thou art our advocate and our defender, our father and our friend, who on the word of the angel speaking to...
A Priest’s Prayer to Saint Joseph
O glorious Saint Joseph, I take thee this day as my advocate and defender, my counselor and my friend. Open thy heart to me as...
Go to Joseph
Go to Joseph in thy joys, thou wilt rejoice the more. Go to Joseph in thy grief, when death knocks at thy door. Go to...
Praying to Saint Joseph for Priests
Prayer to Saint Joseph for Priests O glorious Saint Joseph, thou who, on the word of the angel speaking to thee in the night, didst...
Saint Joseph
O glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, just man, son of David, whom the very Son of God did love, honour, and...
Saint Joseph and Mother Mectilde
Last year I translated the account of Saint Joseph’s apparition to Mother Mectilde de Bar on 19 March 1653. Mother Mectilde, very much like her...
Praying to Saint Joseph for Priests
Prayer to Saint Joseph for Priests O glorious Saint Joseph, who, on the word of the angel speaking to you in the night, put fear...
Blessed M-Jean-Joseph Lataste, O.P. and Saint Joseph
Blessed Marie-Jean-Joseph Lataste, O.P. Ten months before his death on March 10, 1869, Father Marie Jean-Joseph Lataste, O.P. pronounced a very special vow. His desire...
Guardian of the Bread Come Down from Heaven
Quemadmodum Deus Blessed Pope Pius IX 8 December 1870 The Guardian of His Choicest Treasures As almighty God appointed Joseph, son of the patriarch Jacob,...
Saint Joseph
This remarkable painting of Saint Joseph, together with the Child Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the work of the Spanish painter, Aristides Artal....
Go to Joseph
The Icon Brother Claude Lane, O.S.B., the iconographer who painted this singularly expressive image of Saint Joseph, is a monk of Mount Angel Abbey in...
Prayer to Saint Joseph for Priests
The Holy Father’s words inspired me to share with you, dear readers, my own Prayer to Saint Joseph for Priests. O glorious Saint Joseph, who,...
Holy Father Entrusts Pastors to Saint Joseph
Today, at the Angelus, the Holy Father said: The Perspective of Saint Joseph On this fourth Sunday of Advent the Gospel of St. Matthew tells...
Saint Joseph, Advocate and Defender
We began praying the novena to Saint Joseph this evening after Compline. Here is another version of one of the novena prayers to Saint Joseph,...
In our struggle with the powers of darkness
Joseph Like his baptismal patron, Saint Joseph, our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, seems, at times, to stand alone in the night. One has the...