Official Prayer for the Year:
Living God,
you walk alongside us and
speak to us throughout the Scriptures.
Your Son, Jesus Christ,
listens to our hopes and fears
and shows us how to live for one another.
Send us the Holy Spirit
to open our hearts and minds
so that we may be your witnesses
throughout the world
Amen
The Year of St. Joseph
Most of our information we have about St. Joseph comes from the opening two chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel. No words of his are recorded in the Gospels; he was the “silent” man. St. Joseph, the husband of Our Lady and the foster-father of Jesus, was probably born in Bethlehem and probably died in Nazareth.
He was an ordinary manual worker, a carpenter, although he was descended from the royal house of David. He was destined to become the husband of the Mother of God. About him Sacred Scripture has little more to say than that he was a just man. He faithfully and quietly fulfilled his role of guarding and caring for God’s greatest treasures upon earth, Jesus and Mary.
For the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, the patron saint of workers, children from each class worked collaboratively to complete a section of this beautiful artwork to mark this special day.
