General Audience: Pope explains value of work during feast of St. Joseph the Worker

May 2, 2013. (Romereports.com) During yet another packed general audience at St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis explained the importance of work which makes up “God's plan” to bring dignity to man's life. For that reason, he asked that efforts be strengthened to fight against unemployment and [...]
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What can I do to love our Lady?

Please, Father, what can I do to love our Lady? I think you’re already doing what you can. You have some devotions at the year-end, a novena to the Immaculate Conception, right? Do you? Yes, fine. Well, I also advise you to follow the Seven Sundays of St [...]
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Pope's Inauguration Mass: Protect and serve the poor, elderly

March 19, 2013. (Romereports.com) Rome was bright and sunny this morning as thousands of people made their way to St. Peter's Square to celebrate the Pope's Inauguration Mass. Read here the homily. HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER POPE FRANCIS: Saint Peter's Square. Tuesday, 19 March 2013. Solemnity [...]
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How did St Josemaria imagine St Joseph?

I see him as a strong young man, perhaps a few years older than our Lady, but in the prime of his life and work. We know that he was not well-to-do: he was just a worker, like so many millions of people throughout the [...]
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When St Joseph Sleeps

Dear sisters and brothers: Recently I saw in a friend’s house a representation of St. Joseph that really made me think. It was a relief from a Baroque Portuguese altarpiece, depicting the night of the escape into Egypt. You see an open tent with an angel [...]
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Our Lady and St Joseph

During an encounter with diocesan priests in Guatemala, St Josemaria, the founder of Opus Dei, talked about devotion to our Lady and St Joseph in the life of a priest.
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We are not alone

God doesn’t abandon us. All priests, all Christians, can say with St Paul, “Non vivo ego, vivit vero in me Christus.”
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Have a great devotion to St Joseph

St Josemaria explains how St Joseph helps us to know Jesus Christ in his Humanity, because he was chosen by God to be Jesus’ foster-father on earth.
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In Saint Joseph's workshop

A homily given on 19 March 1963, the feast of St Joseph Download the homily "In Joseph's Workshop" We do know that he was not well-to-do: he was just a worker, like so many millions of people throughout the world. He worked at the same demanding and [...]
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5th Joyful Mystery: The Finding of the Child Jesus in the temple

And his parents were wont to go every year to Jerusalem at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast. And after they had fulfilled the days, when they [...]
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