The precious legacy of grandparents

Very Rev. Don Mario,

reading the Holy Crusade I noticed that not only were the names of the deceased published but a report card for perpetual suffrage was also sent to the family. I am writing to you to remember my beloved grandmother who acted as my mother, and who was very devoted to Saint Joseph.

My grandmother asked Saint Joseph for a secure job because her husband was seriously ill. She became a nurse and was hired at the hospital on St. Joseph's Day, March 19. Since then in our house a lamp has been lit day and night in front of the statue of Saint Joseph and I promised my grandmother to continue to keep this lamp lit as a sign of faith in God and out of devotion to Saint Joseph.

We love Saint Joseph and I know that my grandmother Nerina can now finally see him and be with him to contemplate God.

I ask for the Blessing through the intercession of the Glorious Patriarch.

Maurizio Buscemi Good morning.

Dear Maurizio,

thank you for your beautiful testimony and perseverance in anchoring your faith in Jesus and, above all, in your earthly father, Saint Joseph. The silence of Saint Joseph is a mine of wisdom and ready willingness to carry out the Father's will. God, the creator, entrusted the custody of his Son to the care of this carpenter from Nazareth so that he could grow in humanity, wisdom and grace by introducing him into the life of his people. Saint Joseph is the last of the Patriarchs. He made himself available to God by entrusting his life to the desires of the Eternal Father, thus completing the plan dreamed of by Abraham, the first of the patriarchs. Saint Joseph is a Saint to be invoked and imitated.

The perpetual light in front of the image of Saint Joseph in memory of grandmother Nerina is the sign of a brightness reflected from the heart of her faith, dear Maurizio, as well as the testimony of her works of charity in favor of others.

The populous frontiers in need of charitable arms

Dear Director,

I am writing to you with tears in my eyes due to emotion, because I am following the arrival of Pope Francis in Lampedusa on television. How many graces the Lord gives us! We should work very hard. Giuseppe, my husband, who has suffered from multiple sclerosis for forty years, rejoices at these manifestations, but he suffers a lot, like all people affected by this terrible disease. In Cosenza and Calabria there are over 1500 multiple sclerosis sufferers, many of them are alone. As AISM we are committed (many friends have joined the invitation) but the lack of civil service has not allowed us to keep all the therapy support services open. You work a lot but you are never completely efficient. Dear director, I entrust everything to his prayers.

Anna Flaminia Veltri Botta,

Cosenza

Dear Mrs Anna,

we must say that unfortunately almost every day tears well up in our eyes as we see the immense pain of these brothers and sisters of ours who venture into these uncertain adventures in the name of a hope called well-being. Pope Francis invites us Christians to frequent the outskirts of social life, but not only the extreme outskirts of the waters of Lampedusa, but the outskirts of our towns, the homes of solitude in our condominiums, the unsmiling homes of lonely old people or debilitating illnesses .

We all need an extra dose of love towards others. Those who truly believe in the God of love must not be satisfied with words, but sing to life with the actions of brotherly love.

The prodigious signs of an intervention by Saint Joseph

Dear Director,

I have been a subscriber to La Santa Crociata and a popularizer of the Sacred Mantle for over fifty years. Since I was a young girl I had chosen to live under the protection of Saint Joseph, and not only because I bear his name. The graces that my dear Saint Joseph has showered on me and my family are infinite. The most amazing grace I received was last May 6th, in the afternoon, when my husband suffered an acute coronary heart attack, so serious that the doctors, after seven defibrillations and six adrenaline shots, were unable to resuscitate him. Seeing my husband in those conditions I desperately asked Saint Joseph for help. Rushed to hospital, he was operated on and transferred to intensive care for ten days, intubated and with a guarded prognosis. On the 13th, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, he reopened his eyes. Transferred to the cardiology department, he slowly began to improve, much to the amazement and disbelief of all the doctors at his prompt reaction. I have always hoped and prayed a lot to my patron saint and after about a month of hospitalization my husband returned home and continues to feel well to the joy of all of us. I have no words to thank God, the heavenly Mother and my dear Saint Joseph.

Pina Cherchi Fiorucci, Genoa

Dear and kind Mrs Pina,

his writing depicts the feelings of the Samaritan who returns to thank Jesus for the healing of his leprosy disease. Jesus invited the Samaritan to get up and resume his journey with this injunction: "Go, your faith has saved you." Faith is trust, confidence, letting ourselves be held by the hand and walking with the certainty that God does not abandon us. Saint Joseph helps us find the hand of God and walk alongside him in the awareness of entering a world programmed by love even if our clock does not always strike the hour with God's. Never as in the case of an extraordinary healing science and prayer complement each other for the benefit of a human creature.

God is always with us and tells us not to be afraid because our life and its destiny are in the hands of a loving Father.

God's prerogative is forgiveness

Dearest Director,

I'm almost sixty years old and I've spent most of my life without God. Catholic family, all the sacraments, parish and then around the age of seventeen I simply didn't go to church anymore. In 2000 I had to undergo a cornea transplant in both eyes and I began to be afraid, to return to church, to Holy Mass and later with the very strong intercession of Saint Rita of Cascia my conversion led to a radical change of life, which began about four years ago: separation from my husband with whom I was only married civilly (he was already divorced), move to my hometown (Mantua) where my mother and brother live, start of a simpler life.

I didn't think much about St. Joseph, even though I attended the Church assiduously until on Christmas Day 2011, listening to the homily of a Carmelite friar on St. Joseph, I felt the urge to pray to him. When I returned home I found the Mantle of Saint Joseph in a prayer book.[…]

I started praying with the Mantle of St. Joseph and thirty days later, exactly on the thirtieth day, I signed the preliminary sale agreement. I continued the Manto and exactly on the thirtieth day I signed the deed of sale. The real estate agent didn't believe what was happening, but I explained that it was the intercession of St. Joseph. The buyers are a young couple, "good guys", simple, enthusiastic about the house and I about them.

Since then Saint Joseph has been my "financial advisor", living on his pension, having incurred large expenses for the purchase of a new house etc., I pray to him to help me make the right choices, seeing as before I had "my hands empty ".

I repeated the Mantle to help my brother on two occasions and was always granted. I confide my concrete problems to Him and ask Him to help me in everyday practical choices. He always helps me, always intervenes even in the most banal requests. Greetings.

Maria Teresa DV Mantua