The heart of the father.
Ite ad Joseph. Go to Joseph.
The world calls him quiet. But the man who obeyed God without hesitation, who rose in the middle of the night to carry the Son of God across a desert, who raised the Savior of the world, was anything but quiet.
God the Father looked at all of creation and chose this man to guard His Son and protect His Son's Mother. That is not a minor detail. That is the highest honor ever given to a human being after Mary herself. Joseph was clothed in virtue, armed with humility, and entrusted with the two most precious lives in the history of the world. He did not fail them.
In 1870, Pope Pius IX declared St. Joseph the Patron of the Universal Church, not the patron of one country or one trade but of the entire Church on earth. He is our protector. He is our father. And if the saints and popes are right, his power before God is second only to Mary's.
Joseph Prays exists to make him known, to share his story, and to place you under the care of the most faithful, most powerful, most overlooked father the world has ever known.
"I do not remember to have asked anything of St. Joseph which he has failed to grant."
St. Teresa of Ávila
What are you curious about?
"Go to Joseph, and obey him as Jesus and Mary obeyed him. Go to Joseph, and speak to him as they spoke to him. Go to Joseph, and love him, as they love him still."
St. Francis de Sales