Chaplet of Saint Joseph Rosary

Saint Joseph chaplet information

Memorial: 19 March
1 May (Joseph the Worker)

Profile Descendant of the house of David. Layman. Carpenter. Earthly spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Foster and adoptive father of Jesus Christ. Visionary who was visited by angels. Noted for his willingness to immediately get up and do what God told him.

Died : 1st century, prior to the Passion, of natural causes

Patronage
against doubt, against hesitation, Americas, Austria, diocese of Baton Rouge California, Belgium, Bohemia, bursars, cabinetmakers, Canada, Carinthia, carpenters, China, Church, confectioners, craftsmen, Croatian people (in 1687 by decree of the Croatian parliment) diocese of San Jose California, dying people, emigrants, engineers, expectant mothers, families, fathers, Florence Italy, happy death, holy death, house hunters, immigrants, interior souls, Korea, laborers, archdiocese of Louisville Kentucky, diocese of Manchester New Hampshire, Mexico, diocese of Nashville Tennessee, New France, New World, Oblates of Saint Joseph, people in doubt, people who fight Communism, Peru, pioneers, pregnant women, protector of the Church, social justice, Styria Austria, travellers, Turin Italy, Tyrol Austria, unborn children Universal Church, Vatican II, Viet Nam, diocese of Wheeling-Charleston West Virginia, wheelwrights, workers, working people

Reading
He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine Son and Mary, Joseph's wife. He carried out this vocation with complete fidelity until at last God called him, saying 'Good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord.'
from a sermon by Saint Bernardine of Siena

There is a general rule concerning all special graces granted to any human being. Whenever the divine favor chooses someone to receive a special grace, or to accept a lofty vocation, God adorns the person chosen with all the gifts of the Spirit needed to fulfill the task at hand.

This general rule is especially verified in the case of Saint Joseph, the foster-father of our Lord, and the husband of the Queen of our world, enthroned above the angels. He was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely, his divine Son and Mary, Joseph's wife. He carried out this vocation with complete fidelity until at last God called him, saying "Good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord."

Remember us, Saint Joseph, and plead for us to your foster child. Ask your most holy bride, the Virgin Mary, to look kindly upon us, since she is the mother of him who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns eternally. Amen.
from a sermon by Saint Bernardine of Siena

What emanates from the figure of Saint Joseph is faith...Joseph of Nazareth is a "just man" because he totally "lives by faith." He is holy because his faith is truly heroic.

Sacred Scripture says little of him. It does not record even one word spoken by Joseph, the carpenter of Nazareth. And yet, even without words, he shows the depth of his faith, his greatness.

Saint Joseph is a man of great spirit. He is great in faith, not because he speaks his own words, but above all because he listens to the words of the Living God. He listens in silence. And his heart ceaselessly perseveres in the readiness to accept the Truth contained in the word of the Living God.

We see how the word of the Living God penetrates deeply into the soul of that man, that just man. And we, do we know how to listen to the word of God? Do we know how to absorb it into the depths of our human personalities? Do we open our conscience in the presence of this word?
Pope John Paul II from Daily Meditations

Picture and History taken from:
(Jones, Terry H. Patron Saints Index. 2002. http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/ (11-12, 2002)
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