Saint Joseph the father in tenderness
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Jesus learned to live by looking Joseph. The human character of Christ bears the imprint of its keeper
of Don Luigi Guglielmoni and Fausto Negri
In the homily of the Holy Mass at the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis said: «Caring and safeguarding requires goodness, requires being lived with tenderness. In the Gospels, Saint Joseph appears as a strong, courageous, hard-working man, but a great tenderness emerges in his soul which is not the virtue of the weak, rather, on the contrary, it denotes fortitude" (19 March 2013).
Keeper of the “good news”
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by Tullio Locatelli
When I think of Saint Joseph I go to read the Gospel which tells the first years of Jesus' life and in which Saint Joseph has a particular presence.
But for some time now, I have realized that Saint Joseph is also present in other passages of the Gospel, well beyond the time of Jesus' childhood and youth, beyond the life of the Holy Family in Nazareth.
Study seminar 30 years after "Redemptoris Custos"
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“Redemptoris Custos – 30 years after the Apostolic Exhortation” is the theme of the study seminar promoted for 22-24 February next in Rome at the General House of the Oblates of San Giuseppe, in via Boccea 364. The meeting will address the themes treated by the then Pope John Paul II, now a Saint, in his Apostolic Exhortation dedicated to the figure and mission of Saint Joseph in the life of Christ and the Church, as the title of the pontifical document states.