You're listening to St. Joseph, a four-part series on the Foster of Jesus Christ.

This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics understand, live, and share their faith.

I'm Taylor Kemp, platform manager of Formed, and with me is Dr. Ben Acres, the executive director

of formed. We are back for our fourth episode in our series of St. Joseph. I'm all sad. It's coming

to an end. Well, we're going to have a show together called Formed for Mission. We're going to have

conversations about Joseph. Are we still going to talk about Joseph? If we want, yeah, if it comes up. We're going to call it form for mission, but it's really, form for mission. About Joseph. Well, in form permission,

we're going to talk about the things that have to do with living the Christian life. Yes.

And especially in this year of Joseph, we've been thinking about Joseph in a particular way.

We've been praying with Joseph. I've been, so I think that it'll have a Josephite theme.

I like it. Yeah. All right. So today in the fourth part of our four-part series, the end of it,

we are talking about St. Joseph under the title of patron of the domestic church. Last week,

we talked about patron of the universal church. In the second episode, we talked about him as guardian of the

Redeemer. And in the first episode, we talked about him in contrast to the Old Testament Joseph.

So why don't we start with, can you just walk us through? What is the domestic church?

Yeah. Well, the domestic church is related to the universal church. Domestic is just, you know, a fancy word for our house.

Yeah. So the church that's in our home, the church with our family situation, whatever that may look like.

If you're in a married relationship with children that are young or children that are old or married relationship and you don't have children, have blessed with children, or maybe your spouse has

died. So there's different ways that the church has lived out at home, but it's basically

how do you live your church, how do you live your Christian faith when you're not in the

physical building of church? So is what you're saying, that church is not supposed to just be

lived in the church walls on Sunday. That's right. There's a Catholic sociologist named Christian Smith, who teaches at the

University of Notre Dame, and he just recently came out with a work where he's looking at,

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