In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.

My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here.

That you see me, that you hear me.

I adore you with profound reverence.

I beg your pardon for my sins.

And the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful.

My Immaculate Mother, St. Joseph, my Father and Lord.

My guardian angel intercede for me.

Today we celebrate the solemnity of St. Joseph, that faithful steward of the household of God.

He was chosen as the foster father of Jesus on earth and as the husband of Mary.

What an amazing privilege he received. What an amazing call of God. In the Gospel of today's Mass, we read how he received

that call. Matthew writes, Now the origin of Christ was in this way.

When Mary, his mother, had been betrothed to Joseph before they came together, she was found

to be with child by the Holy Spirit.

But Joseph, her husband, being a just man and not wishing to expose her to reproach, was minded to put her

away privately. Here we see the surprise of Joseph, perhaps, we can only imagine his crisis at having

discovered that Mary was pregnant with a child that was not his.

It must have been a shock to him.

And in order to fulfill the will of God and the law of God,

in the extreme case of adultery, for

instance, he would have had to had Mary stoned even. But he knew that that was not the case

somehow because he saw the reality of who Mary was and how good of a woman she was,

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