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we need the spiritual fatherhood of St. Joseph to help us protect marriage and the family.
The final battle between the Lord and the kingdom of Satan will be about marriage and the family.
Second, the entire world needs to be re-evangelized, including the vast majority of baptized Christians.
Now is the time to consecrate yourself to St. Joseph! God is telling his Church that, in order to defend marriage and the family, elevate morals, recover lost ground, and win souls for Jesus Christ, we need to bring St. Joseph onto the battlefield.
Well, it basically means that you acknowledge that he is your spiritual father, and you want to be like him. To show it, you entrust yourself entirely to his paternal care so that he can lovingly help you acquire his virtues and become holy. Total consecration to St. Joseph means you make a formal act of filial entrustment to your spiritual father so that he can take care of your spiritual well-being and lead you to God.
Saint Joseph, in turn, will give those consecrated to him his loving attention, protection, and guidance.
Mary is your spiritual mother, and St. Joseph is your spiritual father. The spiritual fatherhood of St. Joseph is extremely important for your spiritual growth. Total consecration to Mary is not diminished by total consecration to St. Joseph. Mary wants you to consecrate yourself to St. Joseph! Everything you have given to Jesus and Mary can also
given to St. Joseph. Be at peace. The Hearts of Jesus, Mary, and St. Joseph are one.
tried-and-true 33-day preparation method employed by St. Louis de Montfort in his Marian consecration.
When God wishes to raise a soul to greater heights, he unites it to St. Joseph by giving it a strong love for the good saint.1
Saint Joseph is “The Increaser.” He has paternal love for you and the power to increase the presence of God in your life and take you to greater heights in the spiritual life.
Saint Joseph wants you to be docile to the direction of the Holy Spirit so that you can be led in the ways of holiness.
holiness is observing the two great commandments of love of God and neighbor, avoiding sin, leading a life of virtue, and abiding in sanctifying grace.
if you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit there is one absolutely necessary thing: prayer.
Saint Joseph is a model of the interior life for all his children. Saint Joseph was not a priest, yet he is holier than all priests, including the patron saint of parish priests, St. John Vianney.
His was a life of prayer, quiet work, and constant sacrifice, and at the same time, a life shining with the splendor of all virtues.
prayer and the interior life,
Consecration to St. Joseph will increase the Holy Spirit in your life.
There is no doubt at all that St. Joseph was endowed with all gifts and graces required by the charge which the Eternal Father willed to commit to him, over all the domestic and temporal concerns of our Lord, and the guidance of his family, which was composed of three persons only, representing to us the mystery of the Most Holy and Adorable Trinity.
If you want to be a member of the Trinitarian family in heaven, you need to be a child of St. Joseph on earth.
Saint Joseph will greatly bless those who love and honor Mary. The Virgin Mary is St. Joseph’s wife, his queen, and the delight of his heart. She
Saint Joseph will increase your love for the Virgin Mary. Saint Joseph is so in love with Mary that he wants everyone to acknowledge her beauty.
servant of Mary will have a tender devotion to St. Joseph, and by his pious homage of respect and love, will endeavor to merit the protection of this great saint.2
Saint Joseph will help you get to the wedding feast of heaven.
Saint Joseph is the delight of saints.
Matthew and Luke made a point of emphasizing that even though Jesus is not the biological son of Joseph, he is the Son of Joseph by law. As such, Jesus has a legal right to be called a descendant of King David.
Saint Joseph was king of the Holy Family.
Saint Joseph is a noble lord.
(“Madonna” derives from the Latin mea domina, that is, “My Lady,” and is the feminine form of “lord.”)
After Christ, St. Joseph is the greatest of all the patriarchs; he is the greatest of all fathers!
Saint Joseph is a reflection of the Father of Lights.
Saint Joseph will help you live in the light of God. You are a child of the light. As a Christian, Jesus gives you a share in his light. He makes you the light of the world (see Mt 5:14-16).
The “Lumen Patriarcharum” terrifies Satan.
Lucifer lost the light because of his pride and disobedience to God. Now, Satan lives in perpetual darkness and abhors the light.
Every wife desires such a husband — a gentleman, a protector, and a good father.
Women deserve men who are strong and protective, yet gentle, loving, and trustworthy.
To be chaste is to have self-mastery, to be in control of your passions and sexuality.
chastity preserves the human heart and body for authentic self-giving. All
Saint Joseph is pure of heart. To be chaste is to be pure of heart. If a person’s heart is not pure, they are incapable of seeing God.
Your spiritual father is a gentleman. Saint Joseph is the first Christian gentleman; next to Jesus, he is the greatest example of masculine chastity.
“Nurturer of the Son of God.”
He [St. Joseph] protects those who revere him and accompanies them on their journey through this life — just as he protected and accompanied Jesus when he was growing up.1 — St. Josemaría Escrivá
If you are a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ, you are going to be criticized, hated, ridiculed, and mocked by the world — oftentimes by your own family and friends.
Your suffering will be great, but your witness to truth — your witness to Jesus — will be greater.
He established the family and designated that fathers be the heads of their families. Now, this doesn’t mean that men are better than women. The greatest human person who ever lived was not a man, but a woman — Mary, the Mother of God. (Jesus is a divine Person.) Jesus
Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.
Make St. Joseph the spiritual head of your family. Obtain a statue or a beautiful image of St. Joseph for your home. Place it in a prominent location and frequently invoke the intercession of St. Joseph as a family. You will see the difference St. Joseph makes.
He [St. Joseph] won for himself the title of “The Just Man,” and thus serves as a living model of that Christian justice which should reign in social life.1 — Pope Pius XI
Saint Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life. That
In Hebrew a just man means a good and faithful servant of God, someone who fulfils the divine will (cf. Gen 7:1; 18:23-32; Ezek 18:5ff; Prov 12:10), or who is honorable and charitable toward his neighbor (cf. Tob 7:6; 9:6).
