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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, May 1st, 2019. We are in the second week of Easter,

and today is the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast,

we have been talking about what it means to be an Easter people. On Monday, we looked at St. Catherine

of Sienna, her remarkable life, and we saw that anything is possible when you walk

through life with Jesus Christ at your side. Yesterday, we looked at St. George, both the real

St. George and the legend of St. George,

and we reminded ourselves that we too need not fear Satan.

Today we are looking at St. Joseph the Worker.

Now, St. Joseph the Worker, this refers, of course, to the stepfather of Jesus Christ, the husband of

our Virgin Mother, Mary.

We have two feast for St. Joseph.

We have St. Joseph, the feast day that we celebrate in March.

And today, St. Joseph the Worker, that we celebrate on May 1st. Now, this is a bit of a newer feast day,

and it's an interesting one. We are celebrating St. Joseph because he worked. Now, do you work? Do you

have a job? You probably don't, but your parents do. And yet all of us,

whether we go to a job or not, our life is filled with work. Maybe we do homework, school work,

take care of our siblings, wash the dishes at night, do yard work, put away our clothes. We all

have work that makes up our life. Today we are reminded that through the holy example of

St. Joseph, our work has dignity and our work can bring blessings not only to our life, but to the

world. Now, isn't it interesting that Jesus Christ decided to come to the world as an infant,

as a helpless infant, and he had to depend on other human beings just to survive. The human being that he depended on a lot

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