#StJoseph

2025-12-26

Nicht alle haben spitz auf­ra­gen­den Tür­me, die das Stadt­bild beherr­schen. Sie sind manch­mal ganz unschein­bar. Und wie alles im Wed­ding sind auch die Kir­chen oft ganz anders als das, was man land­läu­fig unter Sakral­bau­ten versteht. 

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https://weddingweiser.de/ungewoehnliche-kirchen-im-wedding/
2025-12-23

Am Mittwoch, den 24. Dezember, finden im Wedding und Gesundbrunnen zahlreiche Gottesdienste zu Weihnachten statt – von Familiengottesdiensten mit Krippenspiel bis zur Christmette am späten Abend. Auch an den beiden Weihnachtsfeiertagen gibt es Gottesdienste. Eine Übersicht:

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https://weddingweiser.de/weihnachtsgottesdienste-im-wedding-2025/
Frankie ✅Some_Emo_Chick
2025-12-20

The amount of ice on the outer lighthouse as of tonight ... December 19, 2025 in St. Joseph, MI.

Photo by Joshua Nowicki

Inches of ice covering the outer lighthouse of St Joseph Michigan
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2025-10-06

Aviation weather for Rosecrans Memorial airport in St Joseph area (USA) is “SPECI KSTJ 061713Z 07006KT 10SM SCT014 SCT033 19/18 A3008 RMK AO2 RAB1657E09 P0000 T01940183” : See what it means on bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kstj/en vii3

🅱🅸🅶🅾🆁🆁🅴.🅾🆁🅶bigorre_org
2025-10-06

Aviation weather for Rosecrans Memorial airport in St Joseph area (USA) is “SPECI KSTJ 061713Z 07006KT 10SM SCT014 SCT033 19/18 A3008 RMK AO2 RAB1657E09 P0000 T01940183” : See what it means on bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kstj/en vl

Haunted LineageHauntedLineage
2025-10-02

- The Old Park Floral Building: Nestled in St. Joseph, Missouri, the Old Park Floral Building at Krug Park holds a special place in . . . Read: hauntedlineage.com/directory/t

2025-09-09

Einmal im Jahr öffnen im Wedding denkmalgeschützte Orte ihre Türen – sei es für Führungen, Turmbesteigungen, Ausstellungen oder Atelierbesuche. Hier findet ihr alle Angebote nach Tagen sortiert auf einen Blick: mit Uhrzeiten, Anmeldungshinweisen und in einem Satz, was es bei jedem zu sehen gibt.

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https://weddingweiser.de/tag-des-offenen-denkmals-im-wedding-4/

Kolonistenhaus

Sts. Louis & Zélie Novena 2025, Day 6: Hope in the Darkest Trial

READING

Since I wrote to you, I’ve had so much trouble. My little girl became worse and worse. Last Monday I sent for another doctor… he said to me, “This child must be breastfed right away, that’s the only thing that can save her….”

So at daybreak I left to go to the wet nurse who lives in Semallé… I arrived at the wet nurse’s house and asked her if she would come with me right away… we arrived home at ten-thirty… the wet nurse looked at the child and shook her head with an expression that seemed to say, “I made this trip for nothing!”

I quickly went upstairs to my room. I knelt at the feet of Saint Joseph and asked him for mercy, that the little one be cured, resigning myself completely to the will of God if He wanted to take her. I don’t cry often, but I cried while I was praying.

I didn’t know if I should go downstairs… finally, I decided to go. And what did I see? The child was suckling with all her heart…. She didn’t let go of her hold until about one o’clock in the afternoon. She threw up a few mouthfuls and fell against her wet nurse as if she were dead. There were five of us around her…. As for me, my blood froze. The child had no visible breath….

Finally, a quarter of an hour passed. My little Thérèse opened her eyes and began to smile. From that moment on, she was completely cured.

Saint Zélie Martin
Letter CF 89 to Céline Guérin, March 1873

REFLECTION

Zélie’s hope was never passive resignation. Faced with baby Thérèse’s near-death, she moved through Spirit-guided decisions: consulting the doctor, setting out at dawn despite her fears, negotiating with Rose Taillé the wet nurse, then that tearful prayer to Saint Joseph. Each step required enormous courage in the face of despair.

Her “resigning myself to the will of God” wasn’t emotional defeat but spiritual freedom—the kind that allows bold action precisely because we’re not clinging to outcomes. Even after her intense prayer, she had to decide whether to rejoin the others, a small choice requiring enormous courage. Even after witnessing the apparent answer to her prayer, Zélie faced one final test when little Thérèse seemed to die—yet hope persevered through that quarter-hour of frozen terror until her daughter opened her eyes and smiled, completely cured.

Zélie demonstrates how true hope combines passionate petition with complete surrender, decisive action with total abandonment. The Holy Spirit works through our practical decisions as much as through our prayers.

PRAYER

Saints Louis and Zélie,
you who in your life as a couple and as parents
have borne witness to an exemplary Christian life,
by putting God first,
by fulfilling the duties of your state in life
and practicing the evangelical virtues,
we turn to you:

Help us to have unshakable trust in God
and to abandon ourselves to His Will,
as you did through the joys,
as well as the trials, grief, and suffering
that marked your lives.

Help us to love God with all our hearts,
to persevere through our daily difficulties,
and to abide in the joy and hope
that a living faith in Christ gives us.

Intercede for us

(Mention your intentions here)

that we may obtain the graces we need
today and every day of our lives.

Our Father…

Glory be…

Saints Louis and Zélie, pray for us.

Martin, Z & Martin, L 2011, A Call to a Deeper Love: The Family Correspondence of the Parents of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, 1863-1885, trans. Hess, AC, ed. Renda, F, Society of St. Paul, New York.

All scripture references are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America as accessed from the Bible Gateway website.

Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as novenas to St. Joseph, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Edith Stein.

Let us unite in prayer

#hope #novena #prayer #StJoseph #StThérèseOfLisieux #StZélieMartin

StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎stacescases2.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-06-26

While #St.Joseph medical staff were treating Watts, a nurse was on the phone with police, speculating that Watts had birthed and then killed a live baby, The suit claims the hospital and individual staff were negligent and lied to police www.rawstory.com/women-prosec...

'Traumatized': Women prosecute...

Haunted LineageHauntedLineage
2025-05-05

- Central High School: A couple of spirits are said to linger here. One seems particularly drawn to the Auditorium, while a. . . Read: hauntedlineage.com/directory/c

Marie du jour, 4 May: St. John of the Cross

The Virgin, weighed
with the Word of God,
comes down the road:
if only you’ll shelter her.

Saint John of the Cross

Poetry 13, A Christmas Refrain

John of the Cross, St. 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revised Edition, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K and Rodriguez, O with revisions and introductions by Kavanaugh, K, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: AI-generated artwork in the style of Gari Melchers, created using Midjourney.

Reflection Question ⬦
How might I prepare a place within for Mary and the Word she carries into my life?
Join the conversation in the comments.

#Bethlehem #homelessness #laPosadas #shelter #StJohnOfTheCross #StJoseph #VirginMary #WordOfGod

Watercolor-style image of Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem by moonlight. Mary, visibly pregnant, rides a donkey, while Joseph walks beside her holding a staff. The scene is painted in deep blue tones with a glowing full moon overhead, inspired by the paintings of Gari Melchers. Created by Midjourney.

Marie du jour, 1 May: Père Jacques

God is eternal silence; God dwells in silence.

He is eternal silence because he is the One who has totally realized his own being because he says all and possesses all. He is infinite happiness and infinite life.

All God’s works are marked by this characteristic. Contemplate the Incarnation; it was accomplished in the silence of the Virgin Mary’s chamber at a time when she was in prolonged silence, her door closed.

Our Lord’s birth came during the night, while all things were enveloped in silence. That is how the Word of God appeared on earth, and only Mary and Joseph were silently with him. They did not overwhelm him with their questions, for they were accustomed to guarding their innermost thoughts.

Servant of God Père Jacques of Jesus

Retreat for the Carmel of Pontoise, Conference Eight 
Thursday evening, 9 September 1943

Jacques, P 2005, Listen to the silence: A retreat with Père Jacques, translated from the French and edited by Murphy F, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

 Featured image: Adoration of the Shepherds, unknown French active in Rome, ca. 1660. Pinacoteca Stuard, Parma. Image credit: mazanto / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
What habits of interior silence might help me become more receptive to God’s presence?
⬦ Join the conversation in the comments.

#IncarnationOfChrist #MarieDuJour #nativity #PèreJacquesDeJésus #prayer #ServantOfGod #silence #StJoseph

Quote of the day, 1 May: St. Thérèse

Saint Joseph enters, carrying his tools.

The Blessed Virgin, with a tone of gentle reproach:

Joseph, you’ve been away a long time. Why do you work such long days?

Saint Joseph:

Mary! Let me spend my energy in the service of Jesus. It is for Him and for you that I work; this thought gives me courage and helps me to bear fatigue. And then, when I return in the evening, one caress from Jesus, a single glance from you, make me forget the day’s labors.

(He wipes the sweat from his brow, then sits down by Mary and looks at the Child Jesus. The Blessed Virgin places the Child on Saint Joseph’s knees. His face takes on an expression of celestial joy; he presses the Divine Child to his heart, kisses Him lovingly, and says:)

Little Child! How sweet Your smile is!

Is it really true that I, the poor carpenter Joseph, have the happiness of holding in my arms the King of Heaven, the Savior of humanity?

Is it true that I have the sublime mission of being the foster father to Him whose presence satisfies the ardent seraphim and who nourishes every creature?

Is it true that I am the spouse of the Mother of God, the guardian of her virginity?

O Mary! Tell me, what is this profound mystery?

The Desired of the eternal hills, the Emmanuel for whom all the patriarchs have sighed, sits on my knees and He looks at me, His poor, unworthy servant.

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Pious Recreation 6, The Flight into Egypt (folio 1r–v)

of Lisieux, T 2008, The Plays of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux: “Pious Recreations”, translated from the French by Conroy S and Dwyer D J, ICS Publications, Washington, DC.

Featured image: Christ in the Carpenter’s Shop was executed by French artist Trophime Bigot between the years 1600 and 1650. This oil on canvas artwork hangs in the Cumberland bedchamber of Hampton Court Palace, which is located southwest of Central London.

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
How is God inviting me to serve Him today through hidden, ordinary work done with love?
⬦ Join the conversation in the comments.

#BlessedVirginMary #ChildJesus #fosterFather #Guardian #StJoseph #StJosephTheWorker #StThérèseOfLisieux #work

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