St. Joseph: Guardian of the Word Made Flesh

Br. Peter Trinko

A detail from Joseph with the Child and the Flowering Rod, by Alonso Miguel de Tovar (1678–1752).

​"Your father and I have been looking for you…And He went with them and was obedient to them.” (Luke 2: 48, 51) In these lines we find some of the most powerful testimony of the importance of St. Joseph’s role in the Gospel as the Guardian of the Word Made Flesh. 
 
While this great feast of St. Joseph is always an important day in the life of the Church, it takes on even more significance in this year as Pope Francis has designated this liturgical year the Year of St. Joseph[1], recognizing the 150th year since Pope Pius IX declared him the Patron of the Universal Church. ​

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