joe the worker

I'm going to quote my Austrian friend, Joe Ketzer, also a tutor:
Today is the feast of my Patron Saint. It was introduced in 1955 under Pope Pius XII as St. Joseph the Worker (The Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of the BVM, Patron of the Universal Church).
He had a very challenging life, providing for the Holy Family, managing the escape to Egypt, sometimes one of his clients might have run out of assets and couldn't have paid for the built house - maybe Jesus was inspired by such an event for His parable of the unfinished tower (Luke 14, 28). At least he was spared as witness to the cruel death of Jesus.
​In the FSSP magazine of Austria I read that there's a tradition that believes that St. Joseph was among the deceased who were resurrected immediately after Christ's dying on the cross and appeared to many people in Jerusalem after the Resurrection. Not a dogma, but a beautiful story.
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