Who else loves St. Joseph :)

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I love St. Joseph, I have a statue of him in my room on my desk, with candles around it.
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I also have a statue of St. Joseph. It stands next to the votive candle in front of the open Bible.
reff said:
Share some of your favorite prayers to St. Joseph, and ways he has helped you through his intercession.
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My favorite prayer is the old prayer to St. Joseph which is supposed to be over 1900 years old. Whenever I pray this novena-style, I begin to see St. Joseph’s name at work–I work at a call center where customers’ names and addresses pop up on the screen. Frequently, a customer’s name is Joseph or lives in St. Joseph, Missouri, or San Jose, Calif. Otherwise, I’ll hear the name Joseph on the radio on my commute.

The votive candle at home uses plastic disposable inserts. These inserts are sold at wherelse–St. Joseph’s Church. I buy one every week. One Saturday afternoon, I was low on cash ($2) so I scoured the car interior looking for enough change to make $2.50. I was short seven cents. After two go-rounds, I sit in the car disappointed that I didn’t have enough for a candle. I offer it up, telling St. Joseph to pray for souls. With that, I buckle up and get ready to drive home. I poke once more through the collection of change and my jaw hit the floor. There was another dime in the bunch!

With that, I stuff two dollars into the honor box of the votive stand and clank all those coins in and go home with the candle.

Joe
 
sawman said:
Dear reff,
I do love St. Joseph. I have prayed to him for many years. I have a statue of him holding a jug of water and a loaf of bread, and at his feet is an axe. I used to keep that statue in the shop where I worked as a kind of dedication and reminder that he is with me as I work. I am a carpenter, and I’ve always known that St. Joe can appreciate all the troubles I’ve seen. He’s been there done that. I talk to him pretty regularly cause I know he knows.

Being a carpenter gives me at least two really prominant patrons and I talk to both every day.

Peace to you.

P.S. I like the memorare of St. Joseph.
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Well if one of your patrons is who I think it is (ie the most famous foster-son of all time) then I should hope you talk to HIM every day at least! 🙂
 
Dear All,
One other thing I neglected to mention, I am also the father of a carpenter as well, one with whom I have worked on many occasions. So I can definately say I have an affinity with the whole father, son, and carpenter thing.
 
I, too, have a statue of St. Joseph in one room. In another, a very old picture, which may date back to my grandmother. My favorite prayer:

St. Joseph, Chaste Spouse of Mary and Foster Father of the Child Jesus, Patron of the Universal Church and of a happy death, pray for us.
 
Saint Joseph is my Friend.Everyday I call upon the Carpenter to help me in my work; because, I do a lot of carpentry as a handyman.He never lets me down.

handymanjimnoonan.com
 
St. Joseph is Patron of The Universal Church:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph
The nun who taught me told me (primary school/Mary MacKillop Sisters of St. Joseph) that if only one Catholic existed in the whole wide world, The Catholic Church would be alive, well and functioning in that person…then left my clickety-clack mind to clickety-clack on for itself. So I concluded that wherever I was, The Catholic Church was present…as the years rolled so did the sense of awe and of responsibility and accountability.
St. Joseph then in a very special way is the patron saint of every Catholic. He is also patron of a happy death and of hesitation and doubt and I thought thus I would like to add of difficulties also:thumbsup: . Could use his services on all scores! I thought Wikipedia had quite a comprehensive entry, although I have not read it all yet.
I entered St. Joseph into New Advent and came up with St. Joseph of Cupertino, so I tried St. Joseph Patron of The Church and came up with nothing. I think New Advent must have him somewhere though.
We are hoping that at 2008 World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia here, that Pope Benedict will announce that Blessed Mary MacKillop, whom we hope to be our first saint (a down to earth and eminently practical woman and an extremely hard worker indeed). She founded The Sisters of St. Joseph of The Sacred Heart here…the ‘brown sisters’ of St. Joseph etc. She had very great devotion to St. Joseph.

She said something like “if you find a fault or failing in another, find an excuse for them also”…something in that line. At one point, she was excommunicated by one of our diocesan Bishops, denied her habit, denied the sacraments and no Catholic was allowed to speak to her (not all obeyed this). She said at that time “I have never felt closer to God” she felt the Bishop was very wrong, but obeyed him in every way and never spoke a word against him, rather to the contrary. This excommunication of course was duly lifted.

Blessings…regards…Barb:)
 
BarbaraTherese said:
St. Joseph is Patron of The Universal Church:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph
The nun who taught me told me (primary school/Mary MacKillop Sisters of St. Joseph) that if only one Catholic existed in the whole wide world, The Catholic Church would be alive, well and functioning in that person…then left my clickety-clack mind to clickety-clack on for itself. So I concluded that wherever I was, The Catholic Church was present…as the years rolled so did the sense of awe and of responsibility and accountability.
St. Joseph then in a very special way is the patron saint of every Catholic. He is also patron of a happy death and of hesitation and doubt and I thought thus I would like to add of difficulties also:thumbsup: . Could use his services on all scores! I thought Wikipedia had quite a comprehensive entry, although I have not read it all yet.
I entered St. Joseph into New Advent and came up with St. Joseph of Cupertino, so I tried St. Joseph Patron of The Church and came up with nothing. I think New Advent must have him somewhere though.
We are hoping that at 2008 World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia here, that Pope Benedict will announce that Blessed Mary MacKillop, whom we hope to be our first saint (a down to earth and eminently practical woman and an extremely hard worker indeed). She founded The Sisters of St. Joseph of The Sacred Heart here…the ‘brown sisters’ of St. Joseph etc. She had very great devotion to St. Joseph.

She said something like “if you find a fault or failing in another, find an excuse for them also”…something in that line. At one point, she was excommunicated by one of our diocesan Bishops, denied her habit, denied the sacraments and no Catholic was allowed to speak to her (not all obeyed this). She said at that time “I have never felt closer to God” she felt the Bishop was very wrong, but obeyed him in every way and never spoke a word against him, rather to the contrary. This excommunication of course was duly lifted.

Blessings…regards…Barb:)
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I found St Joseph not-of-Cupertino in New Advent here - newadvent.org/cathen/08504a.htm 🤷

Having said which, St Joseph of Cupertino being patron of exams and me being an erratic student during parts of my academic career, I have a certain level of acquaintance (and love) for him too. I guess it fits in to the thread - another St Joseph that I love 😃
 
LilyM said:
I found St Joseph not-of-Cupertino in New Advent here - newadvent.org/cathen/08504a.htm 🤷

Having said which, St Joseph of Cupertino being patron of exams and me being an erratic student during parts of my academic career, I have a certain level of acquaintance (and love) for him too. I guess it fits in to the thread - another St Joseph that I love 😃
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Thanks Lilly…I thought it was strange that there was no entry in New Advent when I entered “St. Joseph”.
I smiled when you said St. Joseph of Cupertino was patron saints of exams, since he had so much trouble with his own apparently and was prevented from entering monastic life until stories of his holiness abounded. Nowadays you must pass the psychologicals or else no deal.
I had never heard of levitation before which was very strange to me indeed, very indeed. Apparently before St. Jospeh of Cupertino was confined to his cell with his own chapel, they used to tie him down during Mass and when in Choir etc., as he annoyed his brother monks by floating up to the ceiling when he and all were at Mass or prayer.
New Advent entry is rather brief but interesting, I thought I would check it out since stories of the ‘floating saint’ come from my childhood: newadvent.org/cathen/08520b.htm
…yep, he floated.

Thanks again…Blessings and regards…Barb:)
 
I am doing the St. Joseph Novena right now.
If you read each day’s prayer carefully, though very long, it helps to better understand the sacrifice and the greatness of St. Joseph.

St. Joseph is great, this Novena really helps me appreciate him in a more profound way:
ewtn.com/Devotionals/novena/joseph.htm
 
reff said:
I love St. Joseph, I have a statue of him in my room on my desk, with candles around it. I even bought this little book called Favorite Prayers to St. Joseph. I also have a huge beautiful statue of our Blessed Mother on my headboard, I say my rosary in front of it every night, than go over to my St. Joseph statue, and find my favorite prayer. Personally I love say the Litany of St. Joseph.

Share some of your favorite prayers to St. Joseph, and ways he has helped you through his intercession.
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I love the 30 days prayer to St. Joseph. While using it his intercession helpled me thru some tough marriage problems. Just recently my newest grandson, born on Jan 1, 2008, was baptized “Joseph”. I was visiting at the time of his baptism in my daughters new church and thought it quite wonderful that my grandson was being baptized beneath a life sized statue of St. Joseph. I always ask St. Joseph to look after this new little one.
 
I do, I do! :love:

Here is my favorite Novena to St Joseph (scroll down to “Longer Thirty Day Novena to St. Joseph”).

dailycatholic.org/stjoseph.htm

I have received incredible graces after praying this beautiful novena.
 
I love St. Joseph 🙂

I went to Catholic grammar school and high school, both of which were named after St. Joseph. My parish at home (when I’m not at school) is St. Joseph’s Parish. I have had a special connection to St. Joseph for most of my life.

I have started to pray the Holy Cloak Novena and I can already see the wonders that God is working in my life because of St. Joseph’s intercessions. He’s an unsung hero of the Bible, but he seems to have a lot of influence in heaven 🙂
 
I do. I’m currently praying the Holy Cloak Novena; first time to do so.
 
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