March - Joseph Most Just

There are many ways to celebrate this year. It will look different for each individual and each family. These are suggestions for how to get started. This page will be updated as more opportunities arise.

Archdiocese link to the Year of St.Joseph

• Begin the Year of St. Joseph with a special intention for his intercession, for which you will offer your prayers and St. Joseph devotions throughout the year. 
• "To you, O blessed Joseph" is the official prayer of the Year of St. Joseph.
• Litany of St. Joseph
• Daily Novena Prayer to St. Joseph
• Prayer Before Work to St. Joseph the Worker
• Consecration to St. Joseph
• St. Joseph Rosary

More info on these devotions can be found by clicking each line.

• St. Joseph's Seven Sorrows and Seven Joys
• Seven Sunday Devotion
• Sleeping St. Joseph Devotion
• St. Joseph's Table

Celebrate St. Joseph with the entire Church on these days devoted to him every year.

• March 19 - Solemnity of St. Joseph
• May 1 - Feast of St. Joseph the Worker
• Feast of the Holy Family, December 26, 2021
• Wednesdays are often celebrated in St. Joseph's honor
• Monthly themes for the Year of St. Joseph

According to the universal Catechism of the Catholic Church, an Indulgence is “the remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sin whose guilt has already been forgiven. A properly disposed member of the Christian faithful can obtain an Indulgence under prescribed conditions through the help of the Church, which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints. An Indulgence is Partial if it removes part of the temporal punishment due to sin, or Plenary if it removes all punishment.” (CCC, 1471) (source)

Opportunites to gain indulgences in the Year of St. Joseph:

• Meditate for at least 30 minutes on the Our Father
• Participate in a spiritual retreat of at least one day that includes a meditation on St. Joseph
• Perform a corporal or spiritual work of mercy
• Recite the Holy Rosary in families and between the husband and wife.