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Detail from "Dream of St Joseph" (c. 1625–1630) by Gerard Seghers (Wikipedia)

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic World Report, March 18, 2024

John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) was former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. He publishes regularly in the National Catholic Register and in theological journals. All views expressed herein are exclusively his own.

Let us not think of St. Joseph as a naïve figure who embodies some “virtues” that are the stuff of pious legends, but virtues that are signs of contradiction to modern perspectives and mentalities.

March 19th is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. People look to the saints as models of virtue, evidence of how concrete human beings have managed to live the kind of lives God wants of us.

Fr. Czesław Krakowiak, a professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, examined popular devotions to St. Joseph (as enumerated in the “Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy”) and identified four virtues which St. Joseph embodies. Let’s consider them because they are signs of contradiction to modern perspectives and mentalities. …

On Four Great Virtues of Saint Joseph, by John M. Grondelski, Ph.D.

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Saint of the Day for March 20: St. Salvator of Horta

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic World Report, March 18, 2024

Let us not think of St. Joseph as a naïve figure who embodies some “virtues” that are the stuff of pious legends, but virtues that are signs of contradiction to modern perspectives and mentalities.

March 19th is the Solemnity of St. Joseph. People look to the saints as models of virtue, evidence of how concrete human beings have managed to live the kind of lives God wants of us.

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