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This little-known devotion to St. Joseph was called for by St. Joseph during apparition. If you start this on Jan. 31, you’ll end on March 14, the Sunday before his feast

By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News, January 28, 2021

Joseph Pronechen is staff writer with the National Catholic Register since 2005 and before that a regular correspondent for the paper.

This Year of St. Joseph is the perfect time to start or increase our devotion to St. Joseph.

One of the longstanding yet little-known devotions is the Seven Sundays honoring the Seven Sorrows and Seven Joys of St. Joseph. This Sunday, Jan. 31, would be a perfect time to start the Seven Sundays devotion because the seventh Sunday falls on March 14, right before St. Joseph’s feast day on March 19.

The devotion developed after St. Joseph appeared to a couple of friars who were aboard a ship that sank.

Some of the specific details of this story known for a few hundred years were shared by Father Matthew Spencer, the provincial superior of the Oblates of Saint Joseph, when he was on Relevant Radio. …

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