Adult Formation Series on St Joseph, July 20th -- Session 3, Devotion to St Joseph through the History of the Church, Miracles and Apparitions

In this 3rd session, we discuss the development of devotion to St Joseph through the various ages of Church history, as well as the saints most well known for this devotion.  Likewise, some of the apparitions and miracles attributed to St Joseph. 

Adult Formation Series on St Joseph, July 27th -- Session 4, Practical Devotion to St Joseph

 In our final session of this series on St Joseph, we consider the practice of devotion to St Joseph. First, why it is truly necessary to be devoted to St Joseph and how this devotion is qualitatively different from that given to the other saints. Practical advice about devotion to St Joseph and recommendations for various devotions. Cautions against certain superstitious practices: For example, it is objectively a sin to bury a Statue of St Joseph upside down in the yard with the intention of selling a home.

Adult Formation Series on St Joseph, July 13th -- St Joseph in the Theological Reflections of the Saints

 In this second of four sessions on St Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, we discuss the theological reflections of the saints and great theologians on St Joseph.  How old was St Joseph? Had he ever been married before? Was he conceived without sin? Did he ever commit a sin in his whole life? Was he assumed body and soul into heaven?

We answer all these questions!

Adult Formation Series on St Joseph, July 6th -- Session 1, St Joseph in Scripture

 In this first part of our four part series on St Joseph in honor of the Year of St Joseph, we discuss the biblical foundation of devotion to St Joseph.

We look at the Old Testament prefiguring of St Joseph, his place in the New Testament, and also the Apocryphal Texts of the Early Church.