The Roman Martyrology describes Saint Joseph as the “craftsman, who as a carpenter at Nazareth provided for the needs of Mary and Jesus by his labor and initiated the Son of God into human work.” ...

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Just a few kilometres from Nazareth, the city of Sepphoris was being developed ... can have lasting and far-reaching effects. Georges de La Tour's Joseph the Carpenter is a quietly powerful reflection ...

Working the land was the primary vocation in first-century Nazareth ... shirtless houseguests, Joseph’s rough hands and veined muscles that were modeled by an actual carpenter.

He seems to have brought Jesus up in the same trade he was in, because in Mark 6:3 we read that Jesus himself is called a “carpenter”. Joseph seems to have been around at the start of Jesus’s ministry ...

Ite ad Joseph. We go to Joseph. The carpenter from Nazareth, called to be "the earthly shadow of the heavenly Father" (Patris Corde), typifies what our response should be in countless ways ...

He went up to Jerusalem from Nazareth to present the Child eight days after ... the faith of his people and to be a responsible and loving father. Joseph is a man of dreams: the carpenter is also a ...

But since Joseph didn’t know exactly what Jesus ... 165 A.D.), it was common to see farmers still using plows made by the carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth. One hundred years after Jesus died ...

Experiencing boyhood in a town such as Nazareth helped shape the life of the Messiah. The village was small enough, it would likely have supported only one carpenter, and then not very well. Mary’s ...

In “Patris Corde,” Pope Francis writes about the “creative courage” of St. Joseph. “God finds a way to save us,” he writes, “provided we show the same creative courage as the carpenter of Nazareth, ...

That’s the magic behind “The Carpenter,” a new film opening this ... miracle-working craftsman from Nazareth. Think “Rocky” meets “The Chosen,” or “Gladiator” meets “Passion ...