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Offline rowenwdse

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Devotion to Saint Joseph
« on: October 27, 2025, 07:50:48 PM »
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    • A good way to make it to Heaven is to have devotion to Saint Joseph.
     
     I believe that Saint Joseph in the Old Testament is a type, a prefigurement of Saint Joseph in the New Testament.
     
         Genesis 41:55 (Douay-Rheims Bible)
     
     “And when there also they began to be famished, the people cried to Pharao, for food. And he said to them: Go to Joseph: and do all that he shall say to you.”
     
     I believe that Saint Joseph takes us and leads us to the Most Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary, so indissolubly united together.
     
     I want to share with you how wonderful Saint Joseph is:
     
     “Saint Joseph was head of the Holy Family, but not because he was the holiest member of it. In fact he was the least in that respect. ... He was head of the Holy Family because he was the Father of the family. As father of the family, he represented God the Father. He was to Jesus on earth what the Father was and is to the Son in the inner life of the Blessed Trinity. ... But in the case of Saint Joseph, we have a perfect(though finite) reflection of the image of his Heavenly Father. God willed to share His own Fatherhood of Jesus with Saint Joseph ... to make God and Saint Joseph “Co-Fathers” of Jesus ... The fact that Saint Joseph did not beget Jesus by carnal relations implies no defect in his fatherhood, any more than Mary’s conception of Jesus without carnal relations implies a defect in her motherhood. Both Mary and Joseph cooperated with God in attaining the motherhood and fatherhood which God desired of them. And is this not true in the procreation of all children?”
     (    “Saint Joseph, Fatima and Fatherhood” by Msgr. Joseph A. Cirrincione and Thomas A. Nelson)
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    Offline IndultCat

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    Re: Devotion to Saint Joseph
    « Reply #1 on: October 28, 2025, 10:03:06 PM »
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    • My favorite novena of all time is the novena of St. Joseph. 
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    Offline SimonJude

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    Re: Devotion to Saint Joseph
    « Reply #2 on: November 02, 2025, 09:47:07 AM »
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    • Quote from: rowenwdse on October 27, 2025, 07:50:48 PM

     I believe that Saint Joseph in the Old Testament is a type, a prefigurement of Saint Joseph in the New Testament.
    Never heard Joseph of the old testament being called a Saint, but I agree that devotion to St. Joseph, foster father of Our Lord, is a good way to help you get to Heaven.
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