St Matthew’s Gospel Chapter 1:
The Angel Gabriel appeared to St Joseph and reassured him that he was to marry Mary and she would bear a son and the son was to be named Jesus. St Joseph, husband of Our Blessed Mother Mary, and foster father of the Child Jesus, faithfully and humbly carried out the difficult and glorious mission entrusted to him by God and thus became the model of domestic duties, the guardian and protector of Christian Homes.
It is in the Evangelists’ account of the childhood of our Lord Jesus, that figures the essential facts about St Joseph; he therein appears as wonderfully faithful and discreet, the perfect role model father for Jesus.
Pius IX named him Patron of the Universal Church.
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