The heritage of the past in the flowers of the young generations

Dear director,

I obeyed the desire to write to you to testify to the love and devotion I have for Saint Joseph, who has always protected my family. With Stefano, my husband, and our 3 children we were recently at your basilica at the headquarters of the Pious Union to thank Saint Joseph for the love with which he surrounds us, a love that he pours out on us and also for the protection that the his mantle exercises visibly. 

We firmly believe in his divine bond with Jesus and Mary, and we have experienced it in the past together with our families of origin, in particular with my grandmothers, Giovanna Francone and Lidia Oliverio, who were also members of the Pious Union of Saint Joseph. 

In addition to my testimony, I have written to you to register two people dear to me who recently passed away in the Perpetual Suffrage list.

Nadia Scordino from Castrolibero

Dear Mrs Nadia,

I reply to you in the magazine because it seems to me that your testimony joyfully recovers a past built in your family with a faith quotient that has allowed you and your husband to also religiously educate your three children and give them that heritage of values ​​that spontaneously they have passed through the weekday circuit of your life style rich in faith, animated by hope and open to the world of the poor.

I like to underline that the flowering and fruits of your faith have their roots in the fabric of your families of origin who, with their example of life, have transmitted to you that commitment to live a life not barricaded and closed in their own selfishness, but open to neighbor in whom we see the face of the risen Christ, source of our life energy.

I carry her and all her loved ones in the heart of my prayer with the desire that Saint Joseph guard the gifts of the Holy Spirit given to us on the day of our baptism and nourished in their growth with the sacraments.

When perseverance is rewarded with abundance

Dear Pious Union of the Transit of Saint Joseph, I am writing to you to thank Saint Joseph immensely, as thanks to his constant and powerful intercession I have received from Heaven the long-awaited grace for my employment as a teacher. For a long time I had been reciting the Sacred Mantle every day in honor of Saint Joseph; during the novena in honor of the saint, I approached the statue of Saint Joseph and in the lamp there were leaflets of the novena to the saint of the Pious Union available. So I intensified my prayer by promising Saint Joseph to write to your Pious Union for the grace that I would certainly receive... and so it was.

Saint Joseph allowed me to obtain the teaching role after many hardships that I had to face. Following years of precarious employment, I felt too tired to obtain the aforementioned role in the Philosophy and History discipline. Tired of so many negative circumstances suffered. Therefore, contrary to a percentage considered high of being named in the ranking for my subject, I asked Saint Joseph not to miss the opportunity to work on a permanent basis as I could also be nominated from the list of support for disabled students. Saint Joseph helped me by accepting my cry for help also for these young people.

Thank you very much Saint Joseph! I always trust in your constant help for everything I keep asking you! Thank you also infinitely to your association and for all your efforts in spreading the cult of Saint Joseph! Peace and love!

Isabella Del Prete – from the Province of Brindisi

Dear Isabella,

thanks to her for her testimony of patient waiting that Saint Joseph could make the implored grace come down from heaven. Saint Joseph is constantly attentive to our invocations and equally alert to the opportunities that open up for our invoked future.

Pope Francis, who has a particular devotion to St. Joseph, recently suggested this comparison. «Saint Joseph is like the carpenter. When we need it we call him immediately: “I'm coming, I'm coming”. Sometimes, days pass, other times, weeks and you wait, but don't be afraid that you will forget. No! At the right moment he arrives and fills our desires with his grace." The prophet Isaiah suggests to us that "our ways are not always equal to those of God". Sometimes we are like children: we demand everything right away. The parent knows when it is time to fulfill requests.   

On this earth before God our poor life makes us affectionate beggars. The Catechism suggests to us that: «Humility is the necessary disposition to freely receive the gifts of God».

Dear Isabella, through Saint Joseph, together, we thank God for this great grace and invoke his constant presence and ask to make his mission as a teacher a luminous reflection of his pedagogical action. 

May Saint Joseph, who was next to Jesus as an educator and shadow of the Father, stand by her to sow in young lives the joy of living and the commitment to collaborate for the good of all.