P. D'Angona, Sacerdos Romano-Catholicus

@italianzep5251 Viva San Giuseppe! E un caro saluto alla mia amata Italia, la terra dove vive ancora gran parte della mia famiglia.

@RomanoSace57080 Thank you, Father. May the LORD be with you. A happy Feast of Saint Joseph and a happy Father's day (Italy).

@Kalammist @thattradgal I claim no personal view, but rather choose to subscribe to the opinion of the two saints mentioned above.

@RomanoSace57080 @thattradgal And your opinion, Father?

Do you believe St Joseph was assumed, body and soul, into heaven? Why or why not?

@italianzep5251 This can be held as a pious opinion, because, as some theologians observed, if it is true concerning the prophet Jeremiah ("Before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee"; Jer. 1:5), one may consider it a fortiori probable wrt St. Joseph and St. John the Baptist.

@RomanoSace57080 Father, would it be a pia opinio to believe that Saint Joseph was cleansed of original sin in the womb, in the same manner as some claim that Saint John the Baptist was?

@thattradgal Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich states that she received through private revelation that the body of St. Joseph rests incorrupt in an unknown location. Personally, this seems to me the very least one may assume for the body of the man who so often held the Incarnate Word in his arms.

"Discussion is the name under which Death travels, when he seeks to maintain his incognito." (Donoso Cortés)

@litteraechristi Optimum exercitium sacerdotibus praebet recitatio quotidiana horarum canonicarum in ritu traditionali, quamvis, ut patet, "per accidens" tantum, cum labialiter semper (non mentaliter tantum) fieri debeat. Abstinendum quidem est, ex reverentia debita, a recitatione nimis veloci.

Ut facultatem clare et legendi et loquendi exerceam hoc exercitium facere soleo: locum quendam lente, singulas syllabas distincte enuntians, lego. Tum denuo eundem locum paulo velocius, distincte tamen. Tum multo velocius lego, semper tamen distincte. Postremo quam velocissime possum lego, ea vero condicione ut nihil in enuntiando audiatur obscurius.

He gives no honor to God who professes those things which are repugnant to the Divine Attributes and wrongful in God's eyes. Indifferentists do this since they profess that God loves both lies and truth..... The indifferent person credits all religions as true and it is insanity to say that contradictory things can be simultaneously true... He (the indifferentist) must say something like this: "Christ is a mere man" as well as "Christ is God" or "The Roman Pontiff is the Vicar of Christ" and "The Roman Pontiff is the antichrist." - Cardinal Mazzella S.J.

If you celebrate the Feast of Saint Joseph today, March 19, know you do this because of a Habsburg! Deeply devout Emperor Ferdinand II suggested a feast of Saint Joseph to Pope Gregory XV., in 1621 (after the battle of the White Mountain). The Pope set it worldwide in a bull.

"All that is subject to becoming (and consequently finite) can possess reality and causal efficacy only insofar as its ultimate ground of being and action is Being as such (and thus infinite)." (Fr. Erich Przywara SJ)

@anglo_yank @WalmartThomist Don't worry! Besides, my purely personal thoughts really aren't that important.🙂

@RomanoSace57080 @WalmartThomist My apologies. I did not intend to put you in a bad position. I just respect your opinions.

@anglo_yank @WalmartThomist I do not deem these thoughts of sufficient importance to warrant making them public in detail.

@RomanoSace57080 @WalmartThomist That is an interesting point of view. I appreciate your thoughts on these matters. Why do you think it will eventually be abrogated? What is the most likely manner that this would occur?

A selection from the exceedingly numerous patronages of St. Joseph: Patron of the Universal Catholic Church, of Mexico, the Philippines, Canada, China, Belgium, of fighters against communism; of workers, carpenters, woodcutters, engineers, educators, pioneers, of the dying.

"Saint Joseph is the best protector to help you in your life, to penetrate the spirit of the Gospel. (...) So, if you want to be close to Christ, I repeat to you 'Ite ad Ioseph' Go to Joseph!" (Pope Pius XII)

"The simple mention of Jesus, Mary and Joseph reminds us that there (in the Holy Family) we find all human history and there we find also the salvation, the grandeur, the beauty, the splendor of the Catholic Church." (St. John XXIII)

"Jesus Christ our Lord (…) whom countless kings and prophets had desired to see, Joseph not only saw but conversed with, and embraced in paternal affection, and kissed." (Bl. Pius IX)

"Christ fulfills the divine promise and supersedes the old law" (John Paul II, Red. Mater, 1, note 2.) "The new Israel (...) is called the Church of Christ (...). All men are called to belong to the new people of God." (Vat II, LG 9; 13) Opponents to this are (heretical) deviants

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