On today’s Solemnity of Saint Joseph, let us join our prayers with these words of St. Bernadine of Siena:
Remember us, Saint Joseph, and plead for us to your foster-child. Ask your most holy bride, the Virgin Mary, to look kindly upon us, since she is the mother of him who with the Father and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns eternally. Amen.
Artwork: Murillo, Bartolome Esteban. Joseph with Infant Christ. 1666. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Sevilla, Spain.