FILE - Aimee Mandujano, left, as Mary, and Peter Vargas, as Joseph, ride atop a wheeled burro during La Gran Posada procession from Milam Park to San Fernando Cathedral, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, in ...

We know that at Fatima during the apparition on October 13, 1917, after the miracle of the sun, our Blessed Mother appeared again but joining her this time was St. Joseph holding the Child Jesus.

Historian explains 'scary' child Jesus depicted in church stained ... Aug. 12, 2020, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The stained glass window shows a scene of a young Jesus Christ and his father Joseph.

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), “St. Joseph and the Child Jesus” (photo: Public Domain) FATHER STANLEY SMOLENSKI Blogs August 8, 2020.

Now, Joseph, being kind to Jesus, his supposed “stepson” is not impossible, but in that culture, time and space, it was unlikely and indeed dangerous, to say the least.

An Indianapolis church protested President Donald Trump's child separation policy by "detaining" statues of baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a chain-linked, enclosed cage on their lawn.

Early in his gospel, Luke writes that Jesus “was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph” (3:23)—stressing the fact that Joseph played no biological role in Jesus’ miraculous birth.

If Mary and Joseph have eyes only for Jesus, Jesus has eyes for us. Like any child who is completely secure in love, he looks out with an eager and innocent curiosity to an unknown world.

We know so little about him. It is likely he died at a relatively young age. Otherwise, Jesus might have begun his ministry sooner than at the age of 30. The later date may indicate that Jesus needed ...

Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt. ... He could tell the Jesus, Mary and Joseph story of his wife, Melania. But he doesn’t.

Joseph already knows that, for Mary’s son, a name had already been prepared by God—Jesus’ name is given to him by his true father, God—“Jesus,” which means “the Lord saves”; as the ...