Happy Feast Day of St. Joseph just like we did a couple days ago on the Feast of St. Patrick in nine points.

Today we look at St. Joseph in nine points, actually nine questions and the questions that we're going to cover today the nine are first of

all what is the name Joseph mean Joseph comes from Hebrew and it means he increases.

He grows.

The Greek is Joseph.

It comes straight from the Hebrew, also pronounced Joseph with a Y sound at the beginning.

And St. Bernard of Clervo taught that Joseph was correctly named because God increased the

gifts and graces that are found in the world through Joseph as the protector of Mary and Jesus.

Second of all, St Joseph is mentioned in three of the four Gospels. The

gospel that he's not mentioned in is St. Mark's Gospel. He's featured in

Matthew and in Luke because there's a nativity narratives in Matthew and in Luke.

He's only mentioned one time in John's Gospel.

We find that in John's 6 where we read Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know, end quote.

Third, people ask is Joseph a carpenter based on the Greek term tecton. So in the

Gospels Joseph is called a tecton and this is usually translated as a carpenter

but in Greek tecton doesn't just mean someone

who works with wood as we would say in English a carpenter rather tecton means an

artisan it's one who's a builder and one who can repair.

And so Joseph may have worked in wood,

but also stone, metal, cement, clay, or any other substance.

The word Tecton is related to our word technology or architecture.

So you can hear those words in there and I did a whole blog post on this at

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