This is the movement of the Holy Family, leading people to Jesus through friendship, good

conversation, and the rosary.

Hello, before we begin our rosary, just a reminder that our thousandth rosary event on Pentecost

Sundays coming up May 23rd, 5 to 8 p.m. at Fiorella Events Center, bring your own snacks,

drinks, and lawn chairs. You can go on our website and sign up and get more details. And if you live in the Atlanta area or nearby

in Georgia, Peachtree City, Holy Trinity Parish is having a simultaneous event. They will be live

streaming our rosary. So look them up. Holy Trinity Peachtree City and Terry Thomas has details for you there.

Let's begin our rosary by calling to mine. We're ever in the presence of Almighty God

in whom we live and move and have our being. We call upon him in the name of the Father and

of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. We're offering this rosary for

Deacon Steve White that he find a donor and have restoration of his heart functioned for the good

of his life and all of us who care for him and want to see him get better. The topic for tonight is the power of St. Joseph.

Of all men in the entirety of the existence of the world, the Lord God chose St. Joseph to be his

human father on earth. St. Joseph existed eternally in the mind of the

Heavenly Father, patterned after him in every human way, planned with every grace, to accomplish his

great mission, to be Jesus' human father when the fullness of time came. The name Joseph means in Hebrew, Yahweh give an increase.

St. Joseph is the very recipient of this increase due to his relationship with his foster

son, Jesus.

Born in Bethlehem, which means House of Bread, we see him foreshadowed by the Patriarch Joseph in the Old Testament.

Joseph the Patriarch stored grain for bread by being able to hear God in dreams and discern the sign of the times.

He wisely prepared for what was coming.

There was famine in the land, we read in Genesis chapter 42,

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