Saint of the Day March/19 & May/01 Saint Joseph

Saint of the Day

(March 19)

✠ Saint Joseph✠
Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster-father of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Other Names :
• Joseph of Nazareth • Joseph the Artisan • Joseph the Betrothed

Memorials :
• 19 March 
• 1 May (Joseph the Worker)
• 3rd Wednesday after Easter (patronage of Saint Joseph of the Universal Church)

Died : 1st century, Prior to the Passion

Patronage :
• Against Doubt • Against Hesitation • Accountants • Attornies • Barristers • Bursars • Cabinetmakers • Carpenters • Cemetery Workers • Children • Civil Engineers • Confectioners • Craftsmen • Dying People • Educators • Emigrants • Exiles • Expectant Mothers • Families • Fathers • Furniture Makers • Grave Diggers • Happy Death • Holy Death • House Hunters • Immigrants • Interior Souls • Joiners • Laborers • Lawyers • Married People • Orphans • People in Doubt • People who fight Communism • Pioneers • Pregnant Women • Social Justice • Solicitors • Teachers • Travellers • Unborn Children • Wheelwrights • Workers • Working People • Catholic Church • Oblates of Saint Joseph • For protection of the Church • Universal Church • Vatican II • Americas • Austria • Belgium • Bohemia • Canada • China • Croatian people • Korea • Mexico • New France • New World • Peru • Philippines • Vatican City • Viet Nam • Canadian Armed Forces • Papal States • 46 Dioceses • 26 Cities • States and Regions

Symbols :
• Bible • Branch • Carpenter's Square • Carpenter's Tools • Chalice • Cross • Hand Tools • Infant Jesus • Ladder • Lamb • Lily • Monstrance • Old man holding a lily and a carpenter's tool such as a square • Old man holding the Infant Jesus • Plane • Rod

Sources :
The chief sources of information on the life of Saint Joseph are the first chapters of our first and third Gospels; they are practically also the only reliable sources, for, whilst, on the holy patriarch’s life, as on many other points connected with the Saviour’s history which are left untouched by the canonical writings, the apocryphal literature is full of details, the non-admittance of these works into the Canon of the Sacred Books casts a strong suspicion upon their contents; and, even granted that some of the facts recorded by them may be founded on trustworthy traditions, it is in most instances next to impossible to discern and sift these particles of true history from the fancies with which they are associated. Among these apocryphal productions dealing more or less extensively with some episodes of Saint Joseph’s life may be noted the so-called “Gospel of James”, the “Pseudo-Matthew”, the “Gospel of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary”, the “Story of Joseph the Carpenter”, and the “Life of the Virgin and Death of Joseph”.

Genealogy :
St. Matthew (1:16) calls Saint Joseph the son of Jacob; according to Saint Luke (3:23), Heli was his father. This is not the place to recite the many and most various endeavours to solve the vexing questions arising from the divergences between both genealogies; nor is it necessary to point out the explanation which meets best all the requirements of the problem (see GENEALOGY OF CHRIST); suffice it to remind the reader that, contrary to what was once advocated, most modern writers readily admit that in both documents we possess the genealogy of Joseph, and that it is quite possible to reconcile their data.


Residence :
At any rate, Bethlehem, the city of David and his descendants, appears to have been the birth-place of Joseph. When, however, the Gospel history opens, namely, a few months before the Annunciation, Joseph was settled at Nazareth. Why and when he forsook his home-place to betake himself to Galilee is not ascertained; some suppose — and the supposition is by no means improbable — that the then-moderate circumstances of the family and the necessity of earning a living may have brought about the change. Saint Joseph, indeed, was a tekton, as we learn from Matthew 13:55, and Mark 6:3. The word means both mechanic in general and carpenter in particular; Saint Justin vouches for the latter sense (Dialogue with Trypho 88), and tradition has accepted this interpretation, which is followed in the English Bible.


Marriage :
It is probably at Nazareth that Joseph betrothed and married her who was to become the Mother of God. When the marriage took place, whether before or after the Incarnation, is no easy matter to settle, and on this point the masters of exegesis have at all times been at variance. Most modern commentators, following the footsteps of Saint Thomas, understand that, at the epoch of the Annunciation, the Blessed Virgin was only affianced to Joseph; as Saint Thomas notices, this interpretation suits better all the evangelical data.

It will not be without interest to recall here, unreliable though they are, the lengthy stories concerning Saint Joseph’s marriage contained in the apocryphal writings. When forty years of age, Joseph married a woman called Melcha or Escha by some, Salome by others; they lived forty-nine years together and had six children, two daughters and four sons, the youngest of whom was James (the Less, “the Lord’s brother”). A year after his wife’s death, as the priests announced through Judea that they wished to find in the tribe of Juda a respectable man to espouse Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age. Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old, went up to Jerusalem among the candidates; a miracle manifested the choice God had made of Joseph, and two years later the Annunciation took place. These dreams, as Saint Jerome styles them, from which many a Christian artist has drawn his inspiration (see, for instance, Raphael’s “Espousals of the Virgin”), are void of authority; they nevertheless acquired in the course of ages some popularity; in them some ecclesiastical writers sought the answer to the well-known difficulty arising from the mention in the Gospel of “the Lord’s brothers”; from them also popular credulity has, contrary to all probability, as well as to the tradition witnessed by old works of art, retained the belief that Saint Joseph was an old man at the time of marriage with the Mother of God.

The Incarnation :
This marriage, true and complete, was, in the intention of the spouses, to be virgin marriage. But soon was the faith of Joseph in his spouse to be sorely tried: she was with child. However painful the discovery must have been for him, unaware as he was of the mystery of the Incarnation, his delicate feelings forbade him to defame his affianced, and he resolved “to put her away privately; but while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost. . . And Joseph, rising from his sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife” (Matthew 1:19, 20, 24).


The Nativity and the flight to Egypt :
A few months later, the time came for Joseph and Mary to go to Bethlehem, to be enrolled, according to the decree issued by Caesar Augustus: a new source of anxiety for Joseph, for “her days were accomplished, that she should be delivered”, and “there was no room for them in the inn (Luke 2:1-7). What must have been the thoughts of the holy man at the birth of the Saviour, the coming of the shepherds and of the wise men, and at the events which occurred at the time of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, we can merely guess; Saint Luke tells only that he was “wondering at those things which were spoken concerning him” (2:33). New trials were soon to follow. The news that a king of the Jews was born could not but kindle in the wicked heart of the old and bloody tyrant, Herod, the fire of jealousy. Again “an angel of the Lord appeared in sleep to Joseph, saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and fly into Egypt: and be there until I shall tell thee” (Matthew 2:13).


Return to Nazareth :
The summons to go back to Palestine came only after a few years, and the Holy Family settled again at Nazareth. Saint Joseph’s was henceforth the simple and uneventful life of an humble Jew, supporting himself and his family by his work, and faithful to the religious practices commanded by the Law or observed by pious Israelites. The only noteworthy incident recorded by the Gospel is the loss of, and anxious quest for, Jesus, then twelve years old, when He had strayed during the yearly pilgrimage to the Holy City (Luke 2:42-51).


Death :
This is the last we hear of Saint Joseph in the sacred writings, and we may well suppose that Jesus’s foster-father died before the beginning of Savior’s public life. In several circumstances, indeed, the Gospels speak of the latter’s mother and brothers (Matthew 12:46; Mark 3:31; Luke 8:19; John 7:3), but never do they speak of His father in connection with the rest of the family; they tell us only that Our Lord, during His public life, was referred to as the son of Joseph (John 1:45; 6:42; Luke 4:22) the carpenter (Matthew 13:55). Would Jesus, moreover, when about to die on the Cross, have entrusted His mother to John’s care, had Saint Joseph been still alive?

According to the apocryphal “Story of Joseph the Carpenter”, the holy man reached his hundred and eleventh year when he died, on 20 July (A.D. 18 or 19). Saint Epiphanius gives him ninety years of age at the time of his demise; and if we are to believe the Venerable Bede, he was buried in the Valley of Josaphat. In truth we do not know when Saint Joseph died; it is most unlikely that he attained the ripe old age spoken of by the “Story of Joseph” and Saint Epiphanius. The probability is that he died and was buried at Nazareth.


Devotion to Saint Joseph :
Joseph was “a just man”. This praise bestowed by the Holy Ghost, and the privilege of having been chosen by God to be the foster-father of Jesus and the spouse of the Virgin Mother, are the foundations of the honour paid to Saint Joseph by the Church. So well-grounded are these foundations that it is not a little surprising that the cult of Saint Joseph was so slow in winning recognition. Foremost among the causes of this is the fact that “during the first centuries of the Church’s existence, it was only the martyrs who enjoyed veneration” (Kellner). Far from being ignored or passed over in silence during the early Christian ages, Saint Joseph’s prerogatives were occasionally descanted upon by the Fathers; even such eulogies as cannot be attributed to the writers among whose works they found admittance bear witness that the ideas and devotion therein expressed were familiar, not only to the theologians and preachers, and must have been readily welcomed by the people. The earliest traces of public recognition of the sanctity of Saint Joseph are to be found in the East. His feast, if we may trust the assertions of Papebroch, was kept by the Copts as early as the beginning of the fourth century. Nicephorus Callistus tells likewise — on what authority we do not know — that in the great basilica erected at Bethlehem by Saint Helena, there was a gorgeous oratory dedicated to the honour of our saint. Certain it is, at all events, that the feast of “Joseph the Carpenter” is entered, on 20 July, in one of the old Coptic Calendars in our possession, as also in a Synazarium of the eighth and nineth century published by Cardinal Mai. Greek menologies of a later date at least mention Saint Joseph on 25 or 26 December, and a twofold commemoration of him along with other saints was made on the two Sundays next before and after Christmas.

In the West the name of the foster-father of Our Lord (Nutritor Domini) appears in local martyrologies of the ninth and tenth centuries, and we find in 1129, for the first time, a church dedicated to his honour at Bologna. The devotion, then merely private, as it seems, gained a great impetus owing to the influence and zeal of such saintly persons as Saint Bernard, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Gertrude (died 1310), and Saint Bridget of Sweden (died 1373). According to Benedict XIV, “the general opinion of the learned is that the Fathers of Carmel were the first to import from the East into the West the laudable practice of giving the fullest cultus to Saint Joseph”. His feast, introduced towards the end shortly afterwards, into the Dominican Calendar, gradually gained a foothold in various dioceses of Western Europe. Among the most zealous promoters of the devotion at that epoch, Saint Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419), Peter d’Ailly (d. 1420), Saint Bernadine of Siena (d. 1444), and Jehan Charlier Gerson (d. 1429) deserve an especial mention. Gerson, who had, in 1400, composed an Office of the Espousals of Joseph particularly at the Council of Constance (1414), in promoting the public recognition of the cult of Saint Joseph. Only under the pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471-84), were the efforts of these holy men rewarded by Roman Calendar (19 March). From that time the devotion acquired greater and greater popularity, the dignity of the feast keeping pace with this steady growth. At first only a festum simplex, it was soon elevated to a double rite by Innocent VIII (1484-92), declared by Gregory XV, in 1621, a festival of obligation, at the instance of the Emperors Ferdinand III and Leopold I and of King Charles II of Spain, and raised to the rank of a double of the second class by Clement XI (1700-21). Further, Benedict XIII, in 1726, inserted the name into the Litany of the Saints.

One festival in the year, however, was not deemed enough to satisfy the piety of the people. The feast of the Espousals of the Blessed Virgin and Saint Joseph, so strenuously advocated by Gerson, and permitted first by Paul III to the Franciscans, then to other religious orders and individual dioceses, was, in 1725, granted to all countries that solicited it, a proper Office, compiled by the Dominican Pierto Aurato, being assigned, and the day appointed being 23 January. Nor was this all, for the reformed Order of Carmelites, into which Saint Teresa had infused her great devotion to the foster-father of Jesus, chose him, in 1621, for their patron, and in 1689, were allowed to celebrate the feast of his Patronage on the third Sunday after Easter. This feast, soon adopted throughout the Spanish Kingdom, was later on extended to all states and dioceses which asked for the privilege. No devotion, perhaps, has grown so universal, none seems to have appealed so forcibly to the heart of the Christian people, and particularly of the labouring classes, during the nineteenth century, as that of Saint Joseph.

This wonderful and unprecedented increase of popularity called for a new lustre to be added to the cult of the saint. Accordingly, one of the first acts of the pontificate of Pius IX, himself singularly devoted to Saint Joseph, was to extend to the whole Church the feast of the Patronage (1847), and in December, 1870, according to the wishes of the bishops and of all the faithful, he solemnly declared the Holy Patriarch Joseph, patron of the Catholic Church, and enjoined that his feast (19 March) should henceforth be celebrated as a double of the first class (but without octave, on account of Lent). Following the footsteps of their predecessor, Leo XIII and Pius X have shown an equal desire to add their own jewel to the crown of Saint Joseph: the former, by permitting on certain days the reading of the votive Office of the saint; and the latter by approving, on 18 March, 1909, a litany in honour of him whose name he had received in baptism.

Source : Wikipedia





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(рооாро░்роЪ் 19)

   ✠ рокுройிродро░் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் ✠
(St. Joseph)

роЕро░ுро│்роиிро▒ை роХрой்ройி рооро░ிропாро│ிрой் роХрогро╡ро░் :
(Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

рокிро▒рок்рокு : роХி.рооு. 39/38
роиாроЪро░ேрод்родு

роЗро▒рок்рокு : роХி.рокி. 21/22
роиாроЪро░род்родு (рокாро░роо்рокро░ிропроо்)

роПро▒்роХுроо் роЪрооропроо் :
роЕройைрод்родுро▓роХ роХிро▒ிро╕்родро╡ родிро░ுроЪ்роЪрокைроХро│்
(Universal Church)

рокாродுроХாро╡ро▓் :
родрои்родைропро░், роиро▒்рокроЯிрок்рокு, родொро┤ிро▓ாро│ро░்роХро│், роиро▓் рооро░рогроо்,
роЕройைрод்родுро▓роХ роХிро▒ிро╕்родро╡ родிро░ுроЪ்роЪрокைроХро│்

рокுройிродро░் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் (Saint Joseph), роЗропேроЪு роХிро▒ிро╕்родுро╡ிрой் ро╡ро│ро░்рок்рокு родрои்родை роЖро╡ாро░். рокுройிрод роЕро░ுро│்роиிро▒ை роХрой்ройி рооро░ிропாро│ிрой் роХрогро╡ро░ாрой роЗро╡ро░், рокாро░роо்рокро░ிроп роХிро▒ிро╕்родро╡ рокிро░ிро╡ுроХро│ிро▓் рооிроХрок் рокெро░ிроп рокுройிродро░ாроХ ро╡рогроЩ்роХрок்рокроЯுроХிро▒ாро░்; рокெро░ுрои்родрои்родைропро░்роХро│ிро▓் (Patriarch) роТро░ுро╡ро░ாроХро╡ுроо் роородிроХ்роХрок்рокроЯுроХிро▒ாро░்.

рокுройிродро░ிрой் ро╡ாро┤்ро╡ு :
роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░், родாро╡ீродு роЕро░роЪро░ிрой் ро╡ро┤ிрооро░рокிро▓் родோрой்ро▒ிропро╡ро░். роЗро╡ро░родு родрои்родைропிрой் рокெропро░் роПро▓ி роОрой்роХிро▒ ропாроХ்роХோрокு роЖроХுроо். роиாроЪро░ேрод்родிро▓் ро╡ாро┤்рои்родு ро╡рои்род роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░், родроЪ்роЪுрод்родொро┤ிро▓் роЪெроп்родு ро╡рои்родாро░். родாро╡ீродு роХுро▓род்родு роХрой்ройிрок் рокெрог்рогாрой рооро░ிропாро│ுроЯрой் роЗро╡ро░ுроХ்роХு родிро░ுроорог роТрок்рокрои்родроо் роЪெроп்ропрок்рокроЯ்роЯродு. роЕро╡்ро╡ேро│ைропிро▓், рооро░ிропாро│், родூроп роЖро╡ிропிрой் ро╡ро▓்ро▓рооைропாро▓் роЗро▒ைроороХройைроХ் роХро░ுрод்родாроЩ்роХுроо் рокேро▒ு рокெро▒்ро▒ாро░். рооро░ிропாро│் родிроЯீро░ெрой роХро░ுро╡ுро▒்ро▒родாро▓் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் роХுро┤рок்рокроо் роЕроЯைрои்родாро░். роиேро░்рооைропாро│ро░ாрой роЗро╡ро░் рооро░ிропாро│ை роЗроХро┤்роЪ்роЪிроХ்роХு роЙро│்ро│ாроХ்роХாрооро▓் рооро▒ைро╡ாроХ ро╡ிро▓роХ்роХிро╡ிроЯ роиிройைрод்родாро░். рооро░ிропாро│் роХроЯро╡ுро│ிрой் родிро░ுро╡ுро│род்родாро▓் роЗро▒ைроороХройை роХро░ுрод்родாроЩ்роХி роЗро░ுрок்рокродை ро╡ாройродூродро░் ро╡ро┤ிропாроХ роЕро▒ிрои்род роЗро╡ро░் рооро░ிропாро│ை роПро▒்ро▒ுроХ்роХொрог்роЯாро░்.
роЗропேроЪு, рокெрод்ро▓роХேроо் рооாроЯ்роЯுрод் родொро┤ுро╡род்родிро▓் рокிро▒рои்род ро╡ேро│ைропிро▓ுроо், роЕро╡ро░ைроХ் роЖро▓ропрод்родிро▓் роТрок்рокுроХ்роХொроЯுроХ்роХ роОро░ுроЪро▓ேроо் роЪெрой்ро▒ роиேро░род்родிро▓ுроо், роПро░ோродு роЕро░роЪрой் роЕро╡ро░ைроХ் роХொро▓்ро▓род் родேроЯிропрокோродுроо், рооро░ிропாро│ைропுроо், роХுро┤рои்родை роЗропேроЪுро╡ைропுроо் рооிроХுрои்род роЕрой்рокுроЯройுроо் роЕроХ்роХро▒ைропுроЯройுроо் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் рокாродுроХாрод்родாро░்.

рокрой்ройிро░рог்роЯு ро╡ропродிро▓் роЗропேроЪு роОро░ுроЪро▓ேроо் роЖро▓ропрод்родிро▓் родроЩ்роХிро╡ிроЯ்роЯрокோродு, роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் рооிроХுрои்род роХро╡ро▓ைропுроЯрой் родேроЯிропро▓ைрои்родு роЕро╡ро░ைроХ் роХрог்роЯுрокிроЯிрод்родாро░். родроЪ்роЪுрод் родொро┤ிро▓ிро▓் ро╡рои்род ро╡ро░ுрооாройроо் рооூро▓роо் роХுроЯுроо்рокрод்родைроХ் роХாрок்рокாро▒்ро▒ிройாро░். рооро░ிропாро│ுроо் роиெроЪро╡ுрод் родொро┤ிро▓் рооூро▓роо் роЗро╡ро░ுроХ்роХு роЙродро╡ிройாро░்.

роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் роЗропேроЪுро╡ுроХ்роХுроо் родроЪ்роЪுрод் родொро┤ிро▓ைроХ் роХро▒்ро▒ுроХ்роХொроЯுрод்родாро░். рооро░ிропாро│ுроХ்роХு роиро▓்ро▓ роХрогро╡ро░ாроХро╡ுроо், роЗропேроЪுро╡ுроХ்роХு роиро▓்ро▓ родрои்родைропாроХро╡ுроо் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் ро╡ிро│роЩ்роХிройாро░். роЪிро▒рои்род ро╡ாроп்рооைропுроо் рокொро▒ுрооைропுроо் роХொрог்роЯ роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░், родிро░ுроХ்роХுроЯுроо்рокрод்родை роЪிро▒рок்рокாроХрод் родро▓ைрооை родாроЩ்роХி ро╡ро┤ிроироЯрод்родிройாро░். роЗропேроЪு родройродு роЗро▒ைропро░роЪுрок் рокрогிропைрод் родொроЯроЩ்роХுро╡родро▒்роХு роЪிро▓ роЖрог்роЯுроХро│ுроХ்роХு рооுрой்рокு, роЗропேроЪுро╡ுроо் рооро░ிропாро│ுроо் роЕро░ுроХிро▓் роЗро░ுроХ்роХ роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் рокாроХ்роХிропрооாрой рооро░рогроо் роЕроЯைрои்родாро░்.

роиро▒்роЪெроп்родிроХро│ிро▓் :
роород்родேропு роиро▒்роЪெроп்родி :
роЗропேроЪு роХிро▒ிро╕்родுро╡ிрой் рокிро▒рок்рокைропொроЯ்роЯிроп роиிроХро┤்роЪ்роЪிроХро│்: роЕро╡ро░ுроЯைроп родாроп் рооро░ிропாро│ுроХ்роХுроо் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░ுроХ்роХுроо் родிро░ுроорог роТрок்рокрои்родроо் роЪெроп்ропрок்рокроЯ்роЯிро░ுрои்родродு. роЕро╡ро░்роХро│் роХூроЯி ро╡ாро┤ுроо்рооுрой் рооро░ிропாро│் роХро░ுро╡ுро▒்ро▒ிро░ுрои்родродு родெро░ிропро╡рои்родродு. роЕро╡ро░் родூроп роЖро╡ிропாро▓் роХро░ுро╡ுро▒்ро▒ிро░ுрои்родாро░். роЕро╡ро░் роХрогро╡ро░் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் роиேро░்рооைропாро│ро░். роЕро╡ро░் рооро░ிропாро│ை роЗроХро┤்роЪ்роЪிроХ்роХு роЙро│்ро│ாроХ்роХ ро╡ிро░ுроо்рокாрооро▓் рооро▒ைро╡ாроХ ро╡ிро▓роХ்роХிро╡ிроЯрод் родிроЯ்роЯрооிроЯ்роЯாро░். роЕро╡ро░் роЗро╡்ро╡ாро▒ு роЪிрои்родிрод்родுроХ் роХொрог்роЯிро░ுроХ்роХுроо்рокோродு роЖрог்роЯро╡ро░ிрой் родூродро░் роЕро╡ро░ுроХ்роХுроХ் роХройро╡ிро▓் родோрой்ро▒ி, "роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░ே, родாро╡ீродிрой் роороХройே, роЙроо்рооройைро╡ி рооро░ிропாро│ை роПро▒்ро▒ுроХ்роХொро│்ро│ роЕроЮ்роЪ ро╡ேрог்роЯாроо். роПройெройிро▓் роЕро╡ро░் роХро░ுро╡ுро▒்ро▒ிро░ுрок்рокродு родூроп роЖро╡ிропாро▓்родாрой். роЕро╡ро░் роТро░ு роороХройைрок் рокெро▒்ро▒ெроЯுрок்рокாро░். роЕро╡ро░ுроХ்роХு роЗропேроЪு роОройрок் рокெропро░ிроЯுро╡ீро░். роПройெройிро▓், роЕро╡ро░் родроо் роороХ்роХро│ை роЕро╡ро░்роХро│ுроЯைроп рокாро╡роЩ்роХро│ிро▓ிро░ுрои்родு рооீроЯ்рокாро░்" роОрой்ро▒ாро░். роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் родூроХ்роХрод்родிро▓ிро░ுрои்родு ро╡ிро┤ிрод்родெро┤ுрои்родு роЖрог்роЯро╡ро░ிрой் родூродро░் родроороХ்роХுрок் рокрогிрод்родро╡ாро▒ே родроо் рооройைро╡ிропை роПро▒்ро▒ுроХ்роХொрог்роЯாро░். рооро░ிропாро│் родроо் роороХройைрок் рокெро▒்ро▒ெроЯுроХ்роХுроо் ро╡ро░ை роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் роЕро╡ро░ோроЯு роХூроЯி ро╡ாро┤ро╡ிро▓்ро▓ை. роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் роЕроо்роороХройுроХ்роХு роЗропேроЪு роОрой்ро▒ு рокெропро░ிроЯ்роЯாро░்.
~ роород்родேропு 1:18-21,24-25

роЮாройிроХро│் родிро░ுроо்рокிроЪ் роЪெрой்ро▒рокிрой் роЖрог்роЯро╡ро░ுроЯைроп родூродро░் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░ுроХ்роХுроХ் роХройро╡ிро▓் родோрой்ро▒ி, "роиீро░் роОро┤ுрои்родு роХுро┤рои்родைропைропுроо் роЕродрой் родாропைропுроо் роХூроЯ்роЯிроХ் роХொрог்роЯு роОроХிрок்родுроХ்роХுрод் родрок்рокி роУроЯிроЪ்роЪெро▓்ро▓ுроо். роиாрой் роЙроороХ்роХுроЪ் роЪொро▓்ро▓ுроо்ро╡ро░ை роЕроЩ்роХேропே роЗро░ுроо். роПройெройிро▓், роХுро┤рои்родைропை роПро░ோродு роХொро▓்ро╡родро▒்роХாроХрод் родேроЯрок்рокோроХிро▒ாрой்" роОрой்ро▒ாро░். роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் роОро┤ுрои்родு, роХுро┤рои்родைропைропுроо் роЕродрой் родாропைропுроо் роХூроЯ்роЯிроХ்роХொрог்роЯு, роЗро░ро╡ிро▓ேропே роОроХிрок்родுроХ்роХுрок் рокுро▒рок்рокроЯ்роЯுроЪ் роЪெрой்ро▒ாро░். роПро░ோродு роХாро▓рооாройродுроо், роЖрог்роЯро╡ро░ுроЯைроп родூродро░் роОроХிрок்родிро▓் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░ுроХ்роХுроХ் роХройро╡ிро▓் родோрой்ро▒ி, "роиீро░் роОро┤ுрои்родு роХுро┤рои்родைропைропுроо் роЕродрой் родாропைропுроо் роХூроЯ்роЯிроХ்роХொрог்роЯு роЗро╕்ро░ропேро▓் роиாроЯ்роЯுроХ்роХுроЪ் роЪெро▓்ро▓ுроо். роПройெройிро▓் роХுро┤рои்родைропிрой் роЙропிро░ைрок் рокро▒ிроХ்роХрод் родேроЯிропро╡ро░்роХро│் роЗро▒рои்родு рокோройாро░்роХро│்" роОрой்ро▒ாро░். роОройро╡ே, роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் роОро┤ுрои்родு роХுро┤рои்родைропைропுроо் роЕродрой் родாропைропுроо் роХூроЯ்роЯிроХ்роХொрог்роЯு роЗро╕்ро░ропேро▓் роиாроЯ்роЯுроХ்роХு ро╡рои்родு роЪேро░்рои்родாро░்.
~ роород்родேропு 2 : 13 - 14, 19 - 21

роЗропேроЪு родроородு роЪொрои்род роКро░ுроХ்роХு ро╡рои்родு роЕроЩ்роХுро│்ро│ родொро┤ுроХைроХ் роХூроЯрод்родிро▓் роЕро╡ро░்роХро│ுроХ்роХுроХ் роХро▒்рокிрод்родாро░். роЕродைроХ் роХேроЯ்роЯро╡ро░்роХро│் ро╡ிропрок்рокிро▓் роЖро┤்рои்родாро░்роХро│். роЕро╡ро░்роХро│், "роОроЩ்роХிро░ுрои்родு роЗрои்род роЮாройроо் роЗро╡ро░ுроХ்роХு ро╡рои்родродு? роОрок்рокроЯி роЗрои்род ро╡ро▓்ро▓ роЪெропро▓்роХро│ைроЪ் роЪெроп்роХிро▒ாро░்? роЗро╡ро░் родроЪ்роЪро░ுроЯைроп роороХрой் роЕро▓்ро▓ро╡ா? роЗро╡ро░ுроЯைроп родாроп் рооро░ிропாро│் роОрой்рокро╡ро░்родாройே? ропாроХ்роХோрокு, роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░், роЪீрооோрой், ропூродா роЖроХிропோро░் роЗро╡ро░ுроЯைроп роЪроХோродро░ро░் роЕро▓்ро▓ро╡ா? роЗро╡ро░் роЪроХோродро░ிроХро│் роОро▓்ро▓ாро░ுроо் роироо்рооோроЯு роЗро░ுроХ்роХிро▒ாро░்роХро│் роЕро▓்ро▓ро╡ா? рокிрой் роЗро╡ро░ுроХ்роХு роЗро╡ைропெро▓்ро▓ாроо் роОроЩ்роХிро░ுрои்родு ро╡рои்родрой?" роОрой்ро▒ாро░்роХро│்.
~ роород்родேропு 13:54-56

ро▓ூроХ்роХா роиро▒்роЪெроп்родி :
родாро╡ீродிрой் ро╡ро┤ிрооро░рокிройро░ாрой роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░ுроо், родроороХ்роХு роорог роТрок்рокрои்родрооாрой рооро░ிропாро│ோроЯு, рокெропро░ைрок் рокродிро╡ு роЪெроп்роп, роХро▓ிро▓ேропாро╡ிро▓ுро│்ро│ роиாроЪро░ேрод்родு роКро░ிро▓ிро░ுрои்родு ропூродேропாро╡ிро▓ுро│்ро│ рокெрод்ро▓роХேроо் роОрой்ро▒ родாро╡ீродிрой் роКро░ுроХ்роХுроЪ் роЪெрой்ро▒ாро░். рооро░ிропாро│் роХро░ுро╡ுро▒்ро▒ிро░ுрои்родாро░். роЕро╡ро░்роХро│் роЕроЩ்роХு роЗро░ுрои்родрокொро┤ுродு рооро░ிропாро│ுроХ்роХுрок் рокேро▒ுроХாро▓роо் ро╡рои்родродு. роЕро╡ро░் родроо் родро▓ைроороХройைрок் рокெро▒்ро▒ெроЯுрод்родாро░். ро╡ிроЯுродிропிро▓் роЕро╡ро░்роХро│ுроХ்роХு роЗроЯроо் роХிроЯைроХ்роХро╡ிро▓்ро▓ை. роОройро╡ே рокிро│்ро│ைропைрод் родுрогிроХро│ிро▓் рокொродிрои்родு родீро╡ройрод் родொроЯ்роЯிропிро▓் роХிроЯрод்родிройாро░்.
~ ро▓ூроХ்роХா 2:4-7

роХுро┤рои்родைроХ்роХு ро╡ிро░ுрод்родроЪேродройроо் роЪெроп்роп ро╡ேрог்роЯிроп роОроЯ்роЯாроо் роиாро│் ро╡рои்родродு. родாропிрой் ро╡ропிро▒்ро▒ிро▓் роЙро░ுро╡ாроХுрооுрой்рокே ро╡ாройродூродро░் роЪொро▓்ро▓ிропிро░ுрои்родро╡ாро▒ு роЕродро▒்роХு роЗропேроЪு роОрой்ро▒ு рокெропро░ிроЯ்роЯாро░்роХро│். рооோроЪேропிрой் роЪроЯ்роЯрок்рокроЯி родூроп்рооைроЪ் роЪроЯроЩ்роХை роиிро▒ைро╡ேро▒்ро▒ро╡ேрог்роЯிроп роиாро│் ро╡рои்родрокோродு, роХுро┤рои்родைропை роЖрог்роЯро╡ро░ுроХ்роХு роЕро░்рок்рокрогிроХ்роХ роЕро╡ро░்роХро│் роОро░ுроЪро▓ேрооுроХ்роХுроХ் роХொрог்роЯு роЪெрой்ро▒ாро░்роХро│்.
~ ро▓ூроХ்роХா 2 : 21 - 22

роЖрог்роЯுродோро▒ுроо் роЗропேроЪுро╡ிрой் рокெро▒்ро▒ோро░் рокாро╕்роХா ро╡ிро┤ாро╡ைроХ் роХொрог்роЯாроЯ роОро░ுроЪро▓ேрооுроХ்роХுрок் рокோро╡ாро░்роХро│்; роЗропேроЪுро╡ுроХ்роХுрок் рокрой்ройிро░рог்роЯு ро╡ропродு роЖройрокோродு, ро╡ро┤роХ்роХрок்рокроЯி ро╡ிро┤ாро╡ைроХ் роХொрог்роЯாроЯ роОро░ுроЪро▓ேроо் роЪெрой்ро▒ройро░். ро╡ிро┤ா роиாро│்роХро│் рооுроЯிрои்родு роЕро╡ро░்роХро│் родிро░ுроо்рокிропрокோродு, роЪிро▒ுро╡рой் роЗропேроЪு роОро░ுроЪро▓ேрооிро▓் родроЩ்роХிро╡ிроЯ்роЯாро░். роЗродு роЕро╡ро░ுроЯைроп рокெро▒்ро▒ோро░ுроХ்роХுрод் родெро░ிропாродு; рокропрогிроХро│் роХூроЯ்роЯрод்родிро▓் роЕро╡ро░் роЗро░ுрок்рокாро░் роОрой்ро▒ு роОрог்рогிройро░். рокропрогроо் рооுроЯிрои்родрокிрой்рокு роЙро▒ро╡ிройро░ிроЯைропேропுроо் роЕро▒ிрооுроХрооாройро╡ро░்роХро│ிроЯைропேропுроо் роЕро╡ро░ைрод் родேроЯிройро░்; роЕро╡ро░ைроХ் роХாрогாродродாро▓் роЕро╡ро░ைрод் родேроЯிроХ்роХொрог்роЯு роОро░ுроЪро▓ேрооுроХ்роХுрод் родிро░ுроо்рокிроЪ் роЪெрой்ро▒ாро░்роХро│். рооூрой்ро▒ு роиாро│்роХро│ுроХ்роХுрок்рокிрой் роЕро╡ро░ைроХ் роЖро▓ропрод்родிро▓் роХрог்роЯாро░்роХро│்.
~ ро▓ூроХ்роХா 2:41-46

ро╡рогроХ்роХроо் :
роХிро▒ிро╕்родро╡ рокுройிродро░்роХро│ிро▓், рокுройிрод роХрой்ройி рооро░ிропாро│ுроХ்роХு роЕроЯுрод்родродாроХ рокுройிродро░் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் ро╡рогроЩ்роХрок்рокроЯுроХிро▒ாро░். роХிро▒ிро╕்родро╡ ро╡ро░ро▓ாро▒்ро▒ிрой் родொроЯроХ்роХ роХாро▓роо் рооுродро▓ே роЗро╡ро░் рокுройிродро░ாроХ рокோро▒்ро▒рок்рокроЯுроХிро▒ாро░். роЗро╡ро░் роХிро▒ிро╕்родро╡ро░்роХро│ாро▓் роЪிро▒рок்рокாроХ роХрод்родோро▓ிроХ்роХро░் рооро▒்ро▒ுроо் роХிро┤роХ்роХு рооро░рокுро╡ро┤ிрод் родிро░ுроЪ்роЪрокைропிройро░ாро▓் рооிроХро╡ுроо் роородிроХ்роХрок்рокроЯுроХிро▒ாро░்.

рокுройிродро░் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் роЕроХிро▓ роЙро▓роХрод் родிро░ுроЪ்роЪрокை, роХро▒்рокு, роХро▓்ро╡ி, родிро░ுроорогроо், роХுроЯுроо்рокроЩ்роХро│், роиро▓்ро▓ рооро░рогроо் роЖроХிропро╡ро▒்ро▒ுроХ்роХுроо், родொро┤ிро▓ாро│ро░்роХро│ுроХ்роХுроо் рокாродுроХாро╡ро▓ро░ாроХ ро╡ிро│роЩ்роХுроХிро▒ாро░்.

роиிройைро╡ுрод் родிро░ுро╡ிро┤ாроХ்роХро│் :
роХрод்родோро▓ிроХ்роХрод் родிро░ுроЪ்роЪрокைропிро▓் роЗро╡ро░ுроХ்роХு роЗро░рог்роЯு ро╡ிро┤ாроХ்роХро│் роЪிро▒рок்рокிроХ்роХрок்рокроЯுроХிрой்ро▒рой.
роЕро╡ை :
1. рокுройிродро░் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░், роХрой்ройி рооро░ிропாро│ிрой் роХрогро╡ро░்
(рооாро░்роЪ் 19).
2. рокுройிродро░் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░் родொро┤ிро▓ாро│ро░்роХро│ிрой் рокாродுроХாро╡ро▓ро░்
(рооே 1)

родிро░ுроХ்роХாроЯ்роЪி рокெро░ுро╡ிро┤ாро╡ைрод் родொроЯро░்рои்родு ро╡ро░ுроо் роЮாропிро▒்ро▒ுроХ்роХிро┤рооை роЕрой்ро▒ு роХிро┤роХ்роХு рооро░рокுро╡ро┤ி родிро░ுроЪ்роЪрокைропிройро░் рокுройிродро░் роЪூроЪைропрок்рокро░ிрой் ро╡ிро┤ாро╡ை роЪிро▒рок்рокிроХ்роХிрой்ро▒ройро░்.

роЖродாро░роо்: ро╡ிроХ்роХிрокீроЯிропா






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✠ Saint-Joseph✠
├Йpoux de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie et p├иre adoptif de Notre-Seigneur J├йsus-Christ

Autres noms :

• Joseph de Nazareth • Joseph l'artisan • Joseph le fianc├й

M├йmorial :
• 19 mars
• 1er mai (Joseph l'Ouvrier)
• 3e mercredi apr├иs P├вques (patronage de Saint Joseph de l'├Йglise Universelle)

D├йc├йd├й : 1er si├иcle, avant la Passion

M├йc├йnat :

• Contre le doute • Contre l'h├йsitation • Comptables • Avocats • Avocats • Economes • ├Йb├йnistes • Charpentiers • Cimetiers • Enfants • Ing├йnieurs civils • Confiseurs • Artisans • Mourants • ├Йducateurs • ├Йmigrants • Exil├йs • Femmes enceintes • Familles • P├иres • Fabricants de meubles •  Fossoyeurs • Bonne mort • Sainte mort • Chercheurs de maison • Immigrants • ├Вmes de l'int├йrieur • Menuisiers • Ouvriers • Avocats • Personnes mari├йes • Orphelins • Personnes dans le doute • Ceux qui combattent le communisme • Pionniers • Femmes enceintes • Justice sociale • Avocats • Enseignants • Voyageurs  • Enfants ├а na├оtre • Charrons • Ouvriers • Travailleurs • ├Йglise catholique • Oblats de Saint-Joseph • Pour la protection de l'├Йglise • ├Йglise universelle • Vatican II • Am├йriques • Autriche • Belgique • Boh├кme • Canada • Chine • Peuple croate • Cor├йe • Mexique •  Nouvelle-France • Nouveau Monde • P├йrou • Philippines • Cit├й du Vatican • Viet Nam • Forces arm├йes canadiennes • ├Йtats pontificaux • 46 dioc├иses • 26 villes • ├Йtats et r├йgions

Symboles :
• Bible • Branche • ├Йquerre de charpentier • Outils de charpentier • Calice • Croix • Outils ├а main • Enfant J├йsus • ├Йchelle • Agneau • Lys • Ostensoir • Vieil homme tenant un lys et un outil de menuisier tel qu'une ├йquerre • Vieil homme tenant l'Enfant J├йsus •  Avion • Tige

Sources :
Les principales sources d'information sur la vie de saint Joseph sont les premiers chapitres de nos premier et troisi├иme ├йvangiles ;  ce sont pratiquement aussi les seules sources fiables, car, si, sur la vie du saint patriarche, comme sur bien d'autres points li├йs ├а l'histoire du Sauveur qui n'ont pas ├йt├й touch├йs par les ├йcrits canoniques, la litt├йrature apocryphe est pleine de d├йtails, la non-admission  de ces ouvrages dans le Canon des Livres sacr├йs jette une forte suspicion sur leur contenu ;  et, m├кme en admettant que certains des faits enregistr├йs par eux puissent ├кtre fond├йs sur des traditions dignes de confiance, il est dans la plupart des cas presque impossible de discerner et de s├йparer ces particules d'histoire vraie des fantaisies auxquelles elles sont associ├йes.  Parmi ces productions apocryphes traitant plus ou moins abondamment de certains ├йpisodes de la vie de saint Joseph, on peut noter le soi-disant « Evangile de Jacques », le « Pseudo-Matthieu », « l'Evangile de la Nativit├й de la Vierge Marie », le «  Histoire de Joseph le charpentier », et la « Vie de la Vierge et la mort de Joseph ».

G├йn├йalogie :
Saint Matthieu (1:16) appelle Saint Joseph le fils de Jacob;  selon Saint Luc (3:23), H├йli ├йtait son p├иre.  Ce n'est pas ici le lieu de r├йciter les tentatives multiples et les plus diverses pour r├йsoudre les questions ├йpineuses soulev├йes par les divergences entre les deux g├йn├йalogies ;  il n'est pas non plus n├йcessaire d'indiquer l'explication qui r├йpond le mieux ├а toutes les exigences du probl├иme (voir G├ЙN├ЙALOGIE DU CHRIST) ;  qu'il suffise de rappeler au lecteur que, contrairement ├а ce qui ├йtait autrefois pr├йconis├й, la plupart des ├йcrivains modernes admettent volontiers que dans les deux documents nous poss├йdons la g├йn├йalogie de Joseph, et qu'il est tout ├а fait possible de concilier leurs donn├йes.


R├йsidence :
En tout cas, Bethl├йem, la ville de David et de ses descendants, semble avoir ├йt├й le lieu de naissance de Joseph.  Cependant, quand s'ouvre l'histoire de l'Evangile, c'est-├а-dire quelques mois avant l'Annonciation, Joseph est ├йtabli ├а Nazareth.  Pourquoi et quand il a quitt├й sa patrie pour se rendre en Galil├йe n'est pas ├йtabli;  certains supposent - et la supposition n'est nullement improbable - que les circonstances alors modestes de la famille et la n├йcessit├й de gagner sa vie peuvent avoir provoqu├й le changement.  Saint Joseph, en effet, ├йtait un tekton, comme nous l'apprenons de Matthieu 13:55 et Marc 6:3.  Le mot signifie ├а la fois m├йcanicien en g├йn├йral et charpentier en particulier;  Saint Justin se porte garant de ce dernier sens (Dialogue avec Tryphon 88), et la tradition a accept├й cette interpr├йtation, qui est suivie dans la Bible anglaise.


Mariage :
C'est probablement ├а Nazareth que Joseph a fianc├й et ├йpous├й celle qui devait devenir la M├иre de Dieu.  Quand le mariage a-t-il eu lieu, avant ou apr├иs l'Incarnation, ce n'est pas une question facile ├а r├йgler, et sur ce point les ma├оtres de l'ex├йg├иse ont ├йt├й de tout temps en d├йsaccord.  La plupart des commentateurs modernes, ├а la suite de saint Thomas, comprennent qu'├а l'├йpoque de l'Annonciation, la Sainte Vierge n'├йtait fianc├йe qu'├а Joseph ;  comme le remarque saint Thomas, cette interpr├йtation convient mieux ├а toutes les donn├йes ├йvang├йliques.

Il ne sera pas sans int├йr├кt de rappeler ici, pour peu fiables qu'ils soient, les longs r├йcits concernant le mariage de saint Joseph contenus dans les ├йcrits apocryphes.  A quarante ans, Joseph ├йpousa une femme appel├йe Melcha ou Escha par les uns, Salom├й par les autres ;  ils v├йcurent quarante-neuf ans ensemble et eurent six enfants, deux filles et quatre fils, dont le plus jeune ├йtait Jacques (le Mineur, « le fr├иre du Seigneur »).  Un an apr├иs la mort de sa femme, alors que les pr├кtres annonc├иrent par la Jud├йe qu'ils d├йsiraient trouver dans la tribu de Juda un homme respectable pour ├йpouser Marie, alors ├вg├йe de douze ├а quatorze ans.  Joseph, alors ├вg├й de quatre-vingt-dix ans, monta ├а J├йrusalem parmi les candidats ;  un miracle manifesta le choix que Dieu avait fait de Joseph, et deux ans plus tard eut lieu l'Annonciation.  Ces r├кves, comme saint J├йr├┤me les appelle, dont beaucoup d'un artiste chr├йtien a puis├й son inspiration (voir, par exemple, Rapha├лl "Les ├йpousailles de la Vierge"), sont vides d'autorit├й;  ils ont n├йanmoins acquis au cours des ├вges une certaine popularit├й ;  certains ├йcrivains eccl├йsiastiques y cherchaient la r├йponse ├а la difficult├й bien connue n├йe de la menti


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