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rget that she did not have to say thy will be done she was free to say no however much that would have violated her devotion to god if we reduce mary how much more so can we do it to the one to whom she was espoused if we do that however we lose st joseph s own example of devotion he chose jesus having discovered his espoused was pregnant and knowing that he was not the father joseph planned to divorce mary quietly but in a dream an angel appears to him and says joseph son of david do not be afraid to take mary your wife for that which is conceived in her is of the holy spirit she will bear a son and you shall call his name jesus for he will save his people from their sins matthew 1 20b 21 what is most important here is that joseph will be the one who names him not think of the name a name that means the one who saves us from our sins was beyond the expectations of any jew they knew god as one who saved israel by removing sinners now however sinners themselves will be saved no coming up with the name would be beyond any jew however faithful but joseph s role is to declare what the name is this is the action of a father and in law one who adopts is no less of a father than one who creates the immediate significance of this is that through joseph by adoption jesus is of the house of david being irish i tend to say a person s name quite often in conversation a celtic way of connection but any of us when we love someone delight in saying the person s name frequently as god says in isaiah i have called you by your name you are mine 43 1 my parents knew who my best friend of the time was because their name would appear frequently in my conversation and when we fall in love but have not shared that love we can find ourselves pausing after we have said the beloved s name fearful that we have given ourselves away timothy radcliffe recalls that a child of four once said you can tell someone loves you by the way they say your name because if they love you your name is safe in their mouth however too frequently we are a child in love with the sound of our own name but joseph taught us a name we can rely on only because of joseph can i call out to my saviour only because of him can i say jesus it is why the thief could even ask on the cross jesus remember me luke 23 42 when we know someone s name we can draw them to us make a claim on them and joseph can rightly claim that he helped to save us this is why st bernadine of siena the fifteen century franciscan wrote it is beyond doubt that christ did not deny to joseph in heaven that intimacy respect and high honour which he showed him as to a father during his own human life but rather completed and perfected it no wonder we can crown st joseph when the english martyr st ralph sherwin was executed at tyburn his final words were jesu jesu jesu esto mihi jesus that is jesus jesus jesus be for me jesus in the porch of the church of my home parish there is a framed document from about a hundred years ago promising every parishioner a plenary indulgence should they in their final hours have the name of the lord on their dying lips every year on 3 january we celebrate the feast of the most holy name of jesus as the collect or opening prayer for the mass of that day says give your people the mercy they implore so that all may know that there is no other name to be invoked but the name of your only begotten son there is no other name to be invoked because as the angel said to joseph you must name him jesus because he is the one who is to save his people from their sins we do not want to say the lord s name casually which is why we often refer to him as the lord and we certainly do not want to say his name as an expletive but i quite purposefully say the lord s name in my preaching and when talking about him because saying the name of jesus makes him present among us for where two or three are gathered in my name there am i in the midst of them matthew 18 20 you and i will transform moments and spaces should we allow ourselves to bring the name of jesus into conversation his name is not one to be kept hidden the name of jesus saves in the earliest days of the church when a lame man asked st peter for some money the apostle replied i have no silver and gold but i give you what i have in the name of jesus christ of nazareth walk acts 3 6 we need that freshness that excitement at the name of jesus perhaps the most moving words concerning joseph as the father of jesus are said by mary in luke s gospel on finding the missing twelve year old in the temple his mother says son why have you treated us so behold your father and i have been looking for you anxiously 2 48b at one level jesus distances himself from joseph mary has placed joseph at the head of her statement but her son responds how is it that you sought me did you not know that i must be in my father s house 2 49 this is understandable jesus mission is to do god the father his father in heaven s will at the same time however mary reveals the significance of joseph in jesus life and as luke recounts after this incident jesus returns to nazareth and is obedient to both joseph is fathering jesus helping to raise the child into the man for each one of us in joseph s devotion to god we have a model for ourselves men and women however for us men whatever our state of life joseph can be a particular example i have just returned from ireland after a two week holiday on the west coast i was there during the feast of our lady of knock that silent apparition which included the appearance of st joseph on the day i concelebrated mass in the parish church of lisdoonvarna in co clare the priest considered each aspect of the apparition and told us men that in a time where the qualities of masculinity were questioned st joseph was an example to us and that we should man up i am not sure if that language would work in cambridge but of course he was right in this way jesus needed joseph as a father not first because he lived in a socially conservative time christ was happy to eschew social conventions but because he needed a man in his life as he grew up joseph reminds us that fatherhood is something essential which each man can exercise as a father a professed knight or a priest we should look to joseph and seek his prayers may men may be able to flourish as men in room 30 of the national gallery is a marvellous counter reformation picture by the seventeenth century spaniard murillo he painted it at the very end of his life while working for the capuchins in cadiz where it is said a fall from scaffolding led to his death some months later this painting therefore is a consummation of his career known as the pedroso murillo it depicts at the top god the father holding a globe and blessing he is surrounded by angels below him is the holy spirit in the form of a dove then we meet christ perhaps as a four year old child his face forms the centre point of the picture he stands on a carved stone it looks a bit like an altar his right hand is held by mary who kneels on one knee looking adoringly at him his left hand is placed on the palm of a kneeling joseph together mary and joseph steady their child st joseph looks at us inviting us to approach the painting s title is the heavenly and earthly trinities balthasar boehm an augustinian preacher of eichstadt in the sixteenth century wrote three persons possess the one jesus as their son god the father sent the divinity of the son from heaven the virgin mother mary contributed his holy body and venerable joseph supported his noble humanity by the work of his hands that is so to speak the all blessed new trinity which has appeared on this earth jesus as son mary as mother and joseph as father i was in the vendee at the beginning of the summer holiday staying with friends whose first born ambroise is my godson we often went to the beach and he liked nothing better than to have his hands held above his head so that he could stand among the waves as they landed on the shore if it was not his father holding him he was very happy for me to do so joseph was not jesus father and yet jesus was fathered by him we can do the same hold jesus steady in our lives and the lives of others as the holy spirit of the heavenly trinity is more likely to be forgotten so st joseph can be overlooked however we can let him help us to approach the lord if we choose to be devoted to god as he was we who in faith and virtue can be just like joseph we can be as close to jesus as he is in the earthly holy trinity joseph is us i mentioned that the first image of st joseph to be canonically crowned was at kalisz in poland well before and during the second world war the concentration camp at dachau was where the nazis tended to imprison ministers of religion both protestant and catholic among them it is estimated that 1 773 polish priests and several bishops were imprisoned there 868 of them were murdered as the impending defeat of germany became more and more apparent in april 1945 the head of the camp ordered its destruction by fire and the killing of all its prisoners suspecting the intentions of the nazi officer the priests of the camp many of whom were from the regions around kalisz began a novena imploring the protection of st joseph the novena ended just a few days before 29 april the day on which the massacre was to take place the american army planned to take control of the camp on 30 april one day too late but as providence would have it without knowing the orders of the nazi camp commander a small group of american soldiers was sent out to scout the camp a day earlier than planned exactly three hours before the planned destruction of the camp one of the polish priests later recounted the ss officers quickly surrendered when they saw the american soldiers because they thought it was a larger force from the u s army after the camp was liberated everyone was convinced it was st joseph of kalisz who saved us we promised then that we would spread the devotion to st joseph of kalisz we had discovered that st joseph could save us just as he saved baby jesus while running away from king herod to egypt after the war the polish bishops conference proclaimed april 29 as the national day of martyrdom for polish clergy under the nazi and communist regimes the hundreds of priests who survived dachau continued to make pilgrimages to the shrine each year on this date to give thanks until their deaths the last priest died in 2013 he was a hundred years old in our world of great difficulties where god is often forgotten or dismissed we need joseph for his example his guidance his prayers as pharoah said many thousands of years ago to the sons of the patriarch isaac go to joseph genesis 41 55 saint joseph pray for us our lady of philermo pray for us blessed gerard pray for us posted on sunday october 01 2023 category click to see all related faith reports film on blessed gerard next monday next monday at 15 10 european time 14 10 bst there is to be broadcast a film about our founder blessed gerard on rai the italian television service link here our thanks to our brethren in the french association for generously sending this information blessed gerard pray for us posted on friday september 01 2023 category click to see all related notices of future events belated notice portiuncula indulgence with apologies for not posting yesterday but you have until midnight tonight today is the day upon which every year we may gain the portiuncula indulgence from the afternoon on the 1st august to sunset on the 2nd this plenary indulgence may only be applied to the souls in purgatory by the act of visiting a church following confession and receiving holy communion it is thus one of the greatest acts of charity we can perform to release a soul from purgatory why would one not do this the indulgence was granted miraculously to saint francis on a night of great temptation in which he is said to have rolled as mortification in a briar bush which became a bush of sweet thornless roses originally it required a visit to the cell where he died now in the basilica at portiuncula see photo above about a mile from assisi but by successive popes in their great mercy has been granted more and more liberally until today any church may be visited to gain this indulgence this privilege has been finally established for an indefinite time by a decree of the s cong of indul 26 march 1911 acta apostolicae sedis iii 1911 233 4 and reformed and confirmed by pope paul vi in indulgentiarum doctrina 1967 this apostolic constitution established that a plenary indulgence may be gained only once a day the obligations are the usual ones of confession and holy communion ideally on the day and recitation of the lord s prayer and the creed and prayer for the holy father s intentions carried out with the will to gain the indulgence and a detachment from sin that is all the indulgence may be gained on each of the two days thus twice assisting two souls please make the effort to do this wonderful charitable work today this is gift to a soul in need for more information see here posted on wednesday august 02 2023 category click to see all related faith victory over the turks rhodes 1480ad on this day in 1659 the feast of s pantaleon was achieved a great victory over the naval forces of the turks by cardinal grand master pierre d aubusson the day is traditionally commemorated in the order as a first class feast with the following prayers added to the mass die xxvii julii festum duplex iæ classis ob insignem victoriam per emin dominum petrum d aubusson cardinalem c magnum magistrum rhodiorum contra turcas obtentam as quod officium innocentius octavus pont oratio d eus in te sperántium fortitudo adesto precibus nostris quas tibi cum gratiarum offerimus actione pro victoria magistro nostro ac ejus exercitui contra hostes fidei christianæ turcos per te mirabiliter rhodi concessa supliciter deprecantes ut solitá tuæ pietatis clementiá muniti dextráque tuæ potentiæ defensi ab hostium insidiis omníque adversitate protegámur per dominum nostrum jesum filium tuum qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate spiritus sancti deus per omnia sæcula sæculorum secreta h ostias tibi domine placationis et laudis offerimus suppliciter exorantes ut qui nos de fidei tuæ hostibus triumphare fecisti clementer ab inimicorum insidiis et omni periculo salves et munias per dominum nostrum jesum filium tuum qui vivit et regnat in unitate spiritus sancti deus per omnia sæcula sæculorum postcommunio s umptis redemptionis nostræ muneribus quæsumus omnipotens deus eorum celebratione tuæ protectionis auxilium et famuli tui n hospitalis hiersolomitani magistrum cum suo exercitu gratias de triumphis turcarum hostium fidei nomini tuo sancto referentem ab omni inimicorum incursu cunctisque adversitatibus liberes semper et protegas per dominum nostrum jesum filium tuum qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate spiritus sancti deus 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