{"id":717,"date":"2010-03-14T20:32:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T00:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fumblingtowardgrace.wordpress.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2010-03-14T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T00:32:29","slug":"ite-ad-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/fumblingtowardgrace\/2010\/03\/14\/ite-ad-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"Ite Ad Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Go to Joseph.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Those are the words painted above the St. Joseph altar at Our Lady Queen of the Holy Rosary Parish, the historically Italian parish in Indy. Fittingly enough, St. Joseph is the patron saint of Sicily, where my Italian roots stem from.<\/p>\n

His feast, March 19, is a major feast of the Church, though it is often overshadowed by St. Patrick\u2019s day, which is the 17th. In fact, because St. Joseph\u2019s feast day is a solemnity, the obligation to abstain from meat is lifted, in order to allow people to fully celebrate his feast!<\/p>\n

In the homily heard recently, Joseph of the old testament was shown as a forerunner of St. Joseph, the foster-father of Jesus. In Genesis, Joseph, as a result of a dream, has encouraged Egypt to gather grain together because a famine is coming. Pharoh says to all of the people to come to him for food, \u201cGo to Joseph, what he says to you, do.\u201d<\/em> (Genesis 41:55)<\/p>\n

In this story, Joseph is the person you go to when you are in trouble<\/strong>. Joseph later sustains his brothers and their families during the famine, keeping the tribes of Israel alive. Joseph sustains and protects the Hebrew people.<\/p>\n

St. Joseph, in a similar way, was spoken to by God through dreams. God\u2019s angel told Joseph in a dream that Mary was with child by the Holy Spirit, and God told Joseph in a dream to flee to Egypt to save the life of the infant Jesus. St. Joseph was the protector of the holy family; he was the one who sustained the earthly needs of God incarnate and his Blessed Mother.<\/p>\n

St. Joseph is the patron of the universal Church, and the protector of all Christians. While the Hebrews \u201cwent to Joseph\u201d to obtain the grain they needed to survive the famine, we \u201cgo to Joseph\u201d when we need special intercession before God<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I am in the midst of praying a nine-day novena to St. Joseph, which will finish on his feast this Friday. The St. Joseph novena is known for being one of the most powerful. I know in the days I have been praying it with Atticus, I have felt a much stronger devotion to this man, with his quiet strength, unwavering character, and self-less giving.<\/p>\n

Here is the link to the novena<\/a>, if anyone is interested in praying it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll end with these thoughts from the Holy Father about the Church\u2019s protector, St. Joseph.<\/p>\n

\u201cSt. Joseph was called by God to serve the person and mission of Jesus directly through the exercise of his fatherhood. It is precisely in this way that, as the Church\u2019s Liturgy teaches, he \u201ccooperated in the fullness of time in the great mystery of salvation\u201d and is truly a \u201cminister of salvation.\u201d(21) His fatherhood is expressed concretely \u201cin his having made his life a service, a sacrifice to the mystery of the Incarnation and to the redemptive mission connected with it; in having used the legal authority which was his over the Holy Family in order to make a total gift of self, of his life and work; in having turned his human vocation to domestic love into a superhuman oblation of self, an oblation of his heart and all his abilities into love placed at the service of the Messiah growing up in his house.\u201d <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Pope John Paul II Redemptoris Custos<\/p>\n

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