st joseph

1. Protector 

2. Living our manliness
-giving of yourself
- Jesus is a male. As a male, he needed a father to teach him what it is to be a man. Jesus needed the fatherhood of St. Joseph as a model of masculinity for him to imitate. Only a father can do this for a son. How did Jesus learn to sacrifice as a man? He witnessed the daily example of his father. Where did Jesus learn to work as a man? He learned it in his father’s carpentry shop. How did Jesus learn to pray and acquire the manners of a gentleman? Jesus learned all these things from his father, St. Joseph.
According to the divine plan, an earthly, human father was absolutely necessary in the life of Jesus. You’ve no doubt heard the adage, “Like father, like son.”

3. Make the most out of it.
- in your job, in circumstances of life

4. God the Father doesn’t have a human nature. Every time Jesus saw St.
Joseph, heard him speak, watched him work, or witnessed his chaste love for Mary, the humanity of Jesus witnessed a perfect reflection of the Heavenly Father.
God chose to make Joseph his most tangible image on earth, the depository of all the rights of his divine paternity, the husband of that noble Virgin who is Mistress of angels and men.

To be a father means above all to be at the service of life and growth. Saint Joseph, in this sense, gave proof of great devotion.

Man thrive on challenge
- initiatives, problem solve, figure. 

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