The Month of March: St. Joseph, Protector of the Church and Model of Christians
Overview
This devotional contains daily meditations on the life and virtues of St. Joseph. Each day presents a unique prayer to St. Joseph, a relevant Scripture verse, and a brief consideration for reflection. The verses for each day are intended to help the reader in acquiring habits of daily prayer in the presence of God. The Month of March: St. Joseph, Protector of the Church and Model of Christians reveals St. Joseph’s love of God and encourages humility, quiet action, and the spirit of sacrifice. While the Bible tells so little about St. Joseph’s life, in this devotional we discover many of his virtues and are challenged to imitate them.
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Key Features
- Immerses you in Joseph’s history and narrative
- Provides daily meditations on the life and virtues of St. Joseph
- Links to other books and texts in your library
Top Highlights
“Self-knowledge is to form a just estimate of the different qualities we find in ourselves; for humility is not the negation of the good which we may discover; it consists, according to St. Thomas, in distinguishing what is of God, and what is the result of the free exercise of our will. In fact, the exterior advantages of beauty, grace, strength, &c., are the personal gifts which God has bestowed on each one of us. It is the same with intellectual qualities. God has meted out to each a certain amount of intelligence, cleverness, memory, &c. To attribute these gifts to ourselves is to be out of the realm of truth. It is the same, and with still greater reason, with the spiritual graces which God has granted to us.” (Page 35)
“Joseph, whose humility was so deep, that the four Evangelists do not report one single word uttered by him—Joseph, it seems to me, to grant the desire of Jesus, must often have said to Him, ‘Come, my Son, help me in this work.’” (Page 28)
“Now, the Saints, in the order of Providence, are not only our protectors and intercessors before God, but they should also be our models; and the best way of honouring them is by reproducing their noble qualities in ourselves.” (Pages 13–14)
“If we do not understand that this is the object of life—to glorify our good God and work for Him—we are outside the divine plan, and do not deserve existence.” (Pages 55–56)
“God seems to have reserved the devotion to St. Joseph for the terrible days of struggle and trial through which we are now passing.” (Page 13)
Praise for the Print Edition
I have found in it that which is so often wanting in books of this kind: I mean, a spirit of true and earnest piety. I hope it may do all the good which you hoped it would do when you proposed to write it.
—Flavien Hugonin, bishop of Bayeux and Lisieux