Saint Joseph and The Devotion to Divine Mercy

Sister Faustina wrote in her Diary: Saint Joseph urged me to have a constant devotion to him. He himself told me to recite every day three prayers, and the 'Remember...' once. He looked at me with great kindness and gave me to know how much he is supporting this work (of mercy). He has promised me his special help and protection. I recite the requested prayers every day and feel his special protection" (III, 55).

The "three prayers refered to are the Our Father, the Hail Mary, and the Glory be to the Father...

The "Remember" is the prayer to St. Joseph that her religious community recited daily or what we called the-Memorare.

Remember, O most pure spouse of Mary, and my dearly beloved guardian, St. Joseph, that never was it know, that anyone who invoked your care and requested help was left without consolation.

Inspired with this confidence, I come to you, and with all the ardor of my spirit I commend myself to you. Do not reject my prayer, O Foster Father of the Savior, but graciously receive and answer it. Amen.

St. Joseph
Feast day:

March 19 (Joseph the Husband of Mary)
May 1 (Joseph the worker)

Paton of workers, fathers, carpenters, social justice, the dying and the universal Church
Foster Father of Jesus

Selected scriptures in the Bible that tells something about St. Joseph:

We know he was a carpenter, working man, for the skeptical
Nazarenes ask about Jesus, "Is this not the carpenter's son?" (Matthew 3:55)

" He wasn't rich for when he took Jesus to the Temple to be circumcised
and Mary to be purified he offered the sacrifice of two turtledoves or a pair of
pigeons, allowed only for those who could not afford a lamb." (Luke 2:24)

"We know Joseph was a man of faith, obedient to whatever God asked of him without knowing the outcome. When the angel came to Joseph in a dream and told him the truth about the child Mary was carrying, Joseph immediately and without question or concern for gossip, took Mary as his wife. When the angel came again to tell him that his family was in danger, he immediately left everything he owned, all his family and friends, and fled to a strange country with his young wife and the baby. He waited in Egypt without question until the angel told him it was safe to go back" (Matthew 2:13-23)

"We also know that Joseph treated Jesus as his own son, for over and over the people of Nazareth say of Jesus, 'Is this not the son of Joseph'?" (Luke 4:22)

There is much we wish we could know more about Joseph-where and when he was born, how he spent his days, when and how he died. But Scripture has left us with the most important knowledge: who he was - "a righteous man" (Matthew 1:18)