St. Joseph's Day

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Being a native of California… St. Joseph’s Feast is a special day for us. Because, on St. Joseph’s Feast day… the swallows always return to San Juan Capistrano Mission.

I’ve been up there a few times… and it is lovely to behold. Here is a link you might find interesting. God bless. 🙂

sanjuancapistrano.net/swallows/
 
My calendar says St Joseph’s day is March 19
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It’s been moved, because the celebration of a Saint cannot take place during Holy Week, so it’s today.

St. Patrick’s day was yesterday. When I wished my (Protestant)mom Happy St. Patrick’s day she told me it wasn’t until next week. I told her the Bishops had changed it and she said “Why do they think they can change it?” I said, “They can do what they want. It’s our holiday in the first place, give it back!” 😛

I uncovered my statue of St. Joseph and put a lily on my home shrine for him. If I was home for dinner I’d make a pasta covered with breadcrumbs (symbolizing his workroom floor, covered in sawdust), but as it is I won’t get home from work till 10:00, so I’ll probably have a Guiness when I get back in his honor.
 
Rawb said:
It’s been moved, because the celebration of a Saint cannot take place during Holy Week, so it’s today.

St. Patrick’s day was yesterday. When I wished my (Protestant)mom Happy St. Patrick’s day she told me it wasn’t until next week. I told her the Bishops had changed it and she said “Why do they think they can change it?” I said, “They can do what they want. It’s our holiday in the first place, give it back!” 😛

I uncovered my statue of St. Joseph and put a lily on my home shrine for him. If I was home for dinner I’d make a pasta covered with breadcrumbs (symbolizing his workroom floor, covered in sawdust), but as it is I won’t get home from work till 10:00, so I’ll probably have a Guiness when I get back in his honor.
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St. Patrick’s day was yesterday 😛
 
strngrnrth said:
So this is St. Joseph’s Day. Anyone celebrating?
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I just came on here to post question on this and found your post. I’m very disappointed to have only learned about this late today. I’ve been sick since last weekend, missing Mass last Sunday (and perhaps any announcement of it) and still recouping. Heard from a friend only this afternoon about the St. Joseph Day change and was SO disappointed I hadn’t heard sooner.

Here, the tradition is usually Zeppole Di St. Giuseppe (an Italian pastry made for St. Joseph’s Day). Some parishes have what’s called “St. Joseph’s Table” (also an Italian custom) but I can’t give too many knowledgeable details on it. I’ve never gone.

St. Joseph, Chaste Spouse of Mary and Foster Father of the Child Jesus, pray for us !
St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, pray for us !
St. Joseph, Patron of a happy death, pray for the dying, pray for us !
 
St. Patrick’s day was yesterday
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And the Irish Oatmeal and Soda Bread I ate in celebration made obvious why the Irish are so fond of Guiness! 😛

Nevertheless, truly devout Catholics drink Guiness, and I’m farily certain that St. Joseph would only have me offer the best and most devout of beers for his celebrhiction.

CHEERS!
 
Rawb said:
And the Irish Oatmeal and Soda Bread I ate in celebration made obvious why the Irish are so fond of Guiness! 😛

Nevertheless, truly devout Catholics drink Guiness, and I’m farily certain that St. Joseph would only have me offer the best and most devout of beers for his celebrhiction.

CHEERS!
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sigh why on earth do people feel the need to change these feasts? So what if people might have to do without their drunken St Patrick’s Day shenanigans or their overloaded St Joseph’s Tables - why cannot they then resolve to nonetheless celebrate these feasts on their REAL dates, in a more restrained way that is in tune with Holy Week???
 
why on earth do people feel the need to change these feasts?
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It was the Bishops who changed it, because the celebrations of Holy Week are very specific, and these happen to be Saints who are held in high esteem by the Church. Since these days aught to be celebrated, they were moved outside of Holy Week.

The Bishop’s concern for our drinking and celebrating had very little to do with it.
 
Breathe deeeply everyone, this is a once in a several lifetimes (like, 700 years) event.

NOBODY TRUMPS HOLY WEEK. No matter how attached you are to Joseph or Padraig, Holy Week wins out.

Because Joseph always gets a solemnity as the foster father of Jesus and spouse of the Blessed Mother, his “day” has been moved by the UNIVERSAL CHURCH from March 19 to March 15 (yesterday).

Padraig (Patrick) is not a solemnity in the ecclesiastical calendar and his “day” of March 17 has simply been dropped this year. AAACCCKKK!! 😃 EXCEPT (there is always an “except,” isn’t there?), many parishes, peoples, and nations who are consecrated to St. Patrick had full permission from their bishops to move the date, most commonly to Friday, March 14.

I attended a wonderful mass, a Solemnity for St. Patrick, at a parish consecrated to himself on Friday. It was one of those “smells and bells and the organ with all the stops pulled out” masses, concelebrated by many priests with the archbishop and a choir fron Dublin. It was glorious.

And next year, all will be back to normal. :irish3: :irish3:

(I guess I should add, despite my Irish heritage, one of my beloved Godchildren is from an Italian ancestry, and I have encouraged her in a devotion to St. Joseph through the years . . . )
 
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sigh why on earth do people feel the need to change these feasts? So what if people might have to do without their drunken St Patrick’s Day shenanigans or their overloaded St Joseph’s Tables - why cannot they then resolve to nonetheless celebrate these feasts on their REAL dates, in a more restrained way that is in tune with Holy Week???
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Lily -
I’m fully in agreement with you. I felt the same way one year when St. Patrick’s came on a Friday, and dispensation of Lenten abstinence rule was given, so that people could have corned beef and cabbage. :eek: I don’t know if anyone requested St. Joseph’s Feast Day to be changed - do you? But I would doubt it had to do much with eating. (The “overloaded” tables you refer to is a custom still done at some Churches - the proceeds from which I believe go to the Church. It’s sort of carrying out some promise or thanks to St. Joseph that goes back many years - it’s not for revelry.) And BTW - those Churches who do St. Joseph’s Table usually have them before his feast anyway to coinicide with schedules of Saturday/Sunday Mass in hopes of more attendance.

As for St. Joseph’s Feast Day, I’m only assuming that the Feast may have been “movable” if just so that there might be a Mass for St. Joseph celebrated - since March 19th would have fallen on Holy Wednesday. Without looking it up, I’m assuming this year Holy Mother the Church decided to give St. Joseph the singular honor he has been reserved as Our Lord’s Foster Father without interfering with Holy Week observances. But I’m sure it was not related to food.

In my home, March is St. Joseph’s month, and beautiful because of him be it the 19th or in this case the 15th, with or without food. Here, he is dearly loved, honored and revered - all year. The pastry? I didn’t have them this year. I can get them regularly here but because they’ve been named for St. Joseph, they’re special.🙂
 
Me and my family(all my 8 aunts and uncles and their children and some with their children) a lot of peoplle

we all go to my abuelos (grandparents) Pueblo (little town) named after saint joseph and their are fire works and bull riding and a nice humble parade and of course mass…oooo and their is las mañanita (singing in at dawn) to saint joseph…

It’s really nice i hope saint joseph prays for us more than ever when we celebrate this…

Sancte Joseph Ora pro Nobis
 
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