St. Bernard and other great devotees of Mary voiced the same idea regarding our Blessed Mother. I think we may say the same about St. Joseph, the husband of Mary and the virgin father of Jesus. Such ...
Today we find the positive approach in the preface for Masses in honor of St. Joseph: "With a husband's love he cherished Mary, the virgin Mother of God." In 1962, even before the Vatican II ...
St. Hippolytus, "Discourse on the End of the World," c. 217 A.D. "For Luke, in the inspired Gospel narratives, delivers a testimony not to Joseph only, but also to Mary, the Mother of God ...
Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child ... the nearest forebears of Christ according to the flesh. As husband of Mary, the mother of God, and as the foster-father of the savior, you were directly ...
St. Joseph is the perfect model of listening to the Lord and quietly putting his word and plan into action, Pope Francis said ...