Reverend Father,
my sister receives your magazine and every now and then she passes me some copies.
I am writing because I feel the need to ask your community to make the decision to establish a pious work of perpetual masses for the living and the deceased at the sanctuary of Saint Joseph.
This institution is present in several sanctuaries and offers us the faithful the possibility, with a symbolic offering, to guarantee masses of suffrage for many of our loved ones. Not only that, we could register ourselves and other people still alive to ask for spiritual help in the present moment, help which, upon death, would turn into suffrages.
I personally am registered, with my loved ones, at various sanctuaries and I would really like this possibility to be offered to us under the shelter of Saint Joseph.
Perpetual suffrage should guarantee at least the celebration of one mass a week: please think about it, consult yourselves.
I believe that many would be happy and comforted.
Last but not least, revenue would increase for many works of human and Christian restoration.
Bless me
Pietro Fareri - Augusta
Dear Mr Pietro,
I am very grateful to you for your kind observation which allows me to respond to your commendable wishes and to let you know that for the deceased registered for "Perpetual Suffrage" a Holy Mass is celebrated every day in the basilica in which all are commended to the mercy of the Father deceased members as well as deceased whose relatives or acquaintances notify us of the death.
Furthermore, in front of the statue of Saint Joseph, at the entrance to the headquarters of the Pious Union, there is a box that daily collects prayer requests that arrive from all over the world either by letter, by telephone or by e-mail.
In the evening all the requests come together in the box with the invocation to Saint Joseph with the request that he watch over those problems and provide them with blessings.
I assure you that no voice goes unheard.
We feel like a big family capable of generously sharing joy and sorrow and always guaranteeing solidarity and participation.
We take this request to invite us to broaden the chorus of our prayers to Saint Joseph and also to report the death of our members and the registration for "Perpetual Suffrage" of our relatives and acquaintances of whom we are indebted for the good received during their lives .
Divine blessing upon you and your family at every dawn for the joy of living well.
Saint Joseph is an example of an industrious faith
Thank you, thank you a thousand times, for the book that talks about my foster father, Saint Joseph, the saint of saints, whose devotion will accompany me until the end of my days.
In my rosaries, every decade I tell him to pray for me and for the dying, I am sure he listens to me.
[…] I can't wait to pick it up again and when I have read it all, as is my habit, I will re-read it again to imprint in my heart everything about this great saint that the good Lord wanted us to know to search for to imitate him, even if it is not easy. The good Lord, however, accepts good will.
Best regards.
Rina Pinna – Ploaghe
Dear and commendable Mrs. Rina, I am happy that you appreciated this "handbook of the soul that allows you to live an active faith" as it was for Saint Joseph who, from his trusting listening, built a life with a singular role: being close to to Jesus, the Son of God, to guard him and help him grow like an earthly father.
Joseph allowed his heart to be shaped and combined the tenderness of a loyal and dignified fidelity to Mary and obedience to God the Father who, out of fidelity, had him present alongside Jesus and this not only as a "shadow" of the Father, but as an embroidered reflection of light in all its actions to make the educational action effective.
With you, dear Mrs. Rina, I am united in a constant invocation to the Holy Spirit to accompany all our associates to an increasingly lively encounter with Saint Joseph, so that they have sufficient energy to overcome the dark moments of life and a constant joy in heart to sing praise to God.
