Be all devotees of Saint Joseph
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At the end of his life, Saint Anthony Mary Claret composed a short and essential pamphlet to recommend devotion to Saint Joseph.
And to warn against Renan's mistakes
by Don Bruno Capparoni
L'The nineteenth century can be called the “century of the Immaculate”, because in 1854 Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of Mary and in 1858 in Lourdes the Madonna “confirmed” it by saying to the young Bernadette Soubirous: «I am the Immaculate Conception». But it can also be called the “century of Saint Joseph”, because in 1870 Pius IX proclaimed him patron of the universal Church and Leo XIII in 1889, with the encyclical Quamquam pluries, developed the meaning of this patronage and proposed the famous prayer: "To you, O blessed Joseph...".
Saint Joseph and his people
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The feast of the Holy Patriarch, even though this year it fell on a Wednesday, attracted a large number of believers around the Lord's putative Father.
AAt the end of the afternoon procession, the Maestro of the Lazio Region Orchestra Band made a spontaneous (and unsolicited) observation: "Your feast of St. Joseph, together with that of the Ausiliatrice in the Tuscolano district, is the one in Rome that attracts the most people." Perhaps it is not entirely accurate, but it can certainly be said that the feast of St. Joseph at the Trionfale is widely popular among Romans.
From His Holy Heart, rivers of living water
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Pope Francis has published an encyclical on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. From this devotion he has taken a message of novelty, which is perhaps the legacy of his entire pontificate.
by Don Gabriele Cantaluppi
Sone is surprised by the substantially and universally positive opinions expressed on social media regarding the encyclical Dilexit nos on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, published by Pope Francis on October 24, 2024.
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