The Year of Saint Joseph will be celebrated at a worldwide virtual summit beginning Thursday in response to Pope Francis’ call to celebrate the Year of St. Joseph. The conference, Our Spiritual Father: Pilgrimage to the Heart of Saint Joseph, will be
Gretchen Crowe reminds everyone the Year of St. Joseph is not yet over. “The Church is still in the midst of the Year of St. Joseph! We have a little more than two months to go in the year that marks the
Was St. Joseph assumed into heaven? If not, why, since he was the foster father of Jesus? Monsignor Pope explains that “while we don’t know for sure, the usual answer is that St. Joseph was not assumed into heaven, body and soul.
Managing editor Scott Warden shares another story about his family’s RV road trip to Arizona and Utah earlier this summer. Due to complications with their RV on the first half of the trip, they were not able to hit a couple planned
As his family prepares to embark on a 17-day, 4,500-mile trip across the country, Our Sunday Visitor managing editor Scott Warden writes that going to confession was the No. 1 thing on his family’s to-do list before leaving. With that accomplished, he’s
While the United States might not have Lourdes, Fátima, Loreto or other famous destinations, it does have a large selection of beautiful churches and cathedrals from coast to coast. During this year of St. Joseph, specifically, there are many cathedrals named after
My praises of St. Joseph echo the praises of the multitude of saints throughout the ages who have discovered a sturdy and faithful companion in him for all their needs. St. Teresa of Avila sparked the beginning of my devotion when she
Gretchen R. Crowe writes that the new titles added to the Litany of St. Joseph encourage us to take the outstretched hand of Christ and go deeper in relationship with him. She writes: “The titles, like sacred art, offer us new opportunities
Updating the Litany of St. Joseph, approved in 1909, the Vatican has added seven invocations, including two that address the guardian of Jesus and husband of Mary as "support in difficulty" and "patron of refugees."
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments
When Pope Pius XII added the feast of St. Joseph the Worker to the Church’s calendar in 1955, the celebration highlighted the Church’s esteem for workers and human labor. The feast affirms that work is sacred because it is the privileged path