St. Joseph - Guardian of the Bread of Life!

Greetings in Jesus and Mary....

Ite ad Joseph - Go to Joseph, he has the treasures of Jesus in his hands through the prayers and intercession of his spouse Our Blessed Mother!! We know St. Joseph is the Patron of the Universal Church thus making him the guardian of the Holy Eucharist since while on earth....he was the guardian of Jesus (and Mary).

There is so much to ask St. Joseph for today and always. As the Patron of the Universal Church....may we pray to him to ask the Hearts of Jesus and Mary to pour forth many graces into our souls and into the souls of all those who are our leaders. May he protect our priests so that they will be holy and give us the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass where we can receive the true Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Some traditions in the Church compare St. Joseph (Guardian of the Most Blessed Sacrament) to St. Joseph of the Old Testament who stored grains and helped carry the people through the seven year famine.

Below is a video explaining a third feast day that is also given to St. Joseph and celebrated in some communities especially the Carmelites...this year it will be April 22 which is the Weds before the Third Sunday of Easter. The history of this moveable feast is below.

Reasons for honoring St. Joseph:

Holy Church honors St. Joseph through a special devotion in his role as Spouse of Mary and adoptive Father of Christ. In those days, God charged him to provide for the various needs of the Holy Family, and that is the reason why the faithful confidently recommend themselves to him in their temporal necessities. Since St. Joseph was the Head and Protector of the Holy Family, he was proclaimed Patron of the Universal Church by the Blessed Pope Pius IX on the 8th of December 1870.

We especially invoke St. Joseph on account of his admirable purity in order to obtain or partake of this beautiful virtue.

He is patron of the interior life because he spent his life in the company of Jesus and Mary: a life of union with God, a life of faith, of humility and of work thus is he the patron and model of workers.

He is moreover, the patron of a good and holy death, since he had the blessing of dying in the arms of Jesus and Mary.

Very important today is the fact that he is also called "Terror of Demons". We have so many demons roaming the earth and together with Our Lady and Her Rosary...may we ask him to thrust into hell all the demons causing havoc in the world spreading world atheism even within the walls of the Universal Church! St. Joseph pray for us and defend us against these demons!
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Below is a beautiful prayer -  God bless and Happy St. Joseph Day!!
St. Teresa of Avila, pray to St. Joseph for us!
Holy Mother Mary, intercede with St. Joseph for us during these very trying times in the Roman Catholic Church!

                      PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH OFTEN RECITED AFTER THE ROSARY

To you, O blessed Joseph, we have recourse in our affliction, and, having implored the help of your thrice holy spouse, we now with hearts filled with confidence earnestly beg you also to take us under your protection. By that charity, where you were united to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, and by that fatherly love with which you did cherish the Child Jesus, we beseech you and we humbly pray, that you will look down with gracious eyes, upon that inheritance which Jesus Christ purchased by His blood, and will aid us in our need by your power and strength. Defend, O most watchful guardian of the Holy Family, the chosen offspring of Jesus Christ. Keep from us, O most loving father, all blight of error and corruption. Aid us from on high, O most valiant defender, in this conflict with the powers of darkness. And even as of old you did rescue the Child Jesus from the peril of His life, so now defend God's holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity. Shield us ever under your patronage, that, following your example, and strengthened by your help, we may live a holy life, die a happy death, and attain to everlasting bliss in Heaven.  Amen.

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Feast of St. Joseph

Feast of St. Joseph Weds. before 3rd Sun of Easter