Thursday, March 19, 2020
St Joseph says, “Keep Calm, and Carry On.”
Okay, the bible really doesn’t say much about St Joseph, so I am not really sure he coined the phrase. But he might have. Anyone raising adolescents in this age of acceleration has to be sympathetic to the parental challenges Joseph must have faced in raising Jesus. Many hagiographies have been handed down: Joseph, the carpenter, yells at his apprentice for cutting the board too short. Jesus just stretches the board back out to the right length. Not true, but how often Joseph must have been bewildered by this child.
St Joseph was faithful and trusting and responsible. He took God at His word, Mary at her word, even when the world around him was laughing. He was able to love when he did not fully understand. We often look for miracle makers in our saints, but it is the silent saints who teach us the most in troubling, confusing times. There is good reason why St Joseph has prevailed throughout the centuries, and why the Church, and especially this school, relies on his continuing intercession.
St Joseph, our patron, pray for us.
William Fitzgerald
Head of School
