“If the Family of Nazareth is an example and model for human families, in the order of salvation and holiness, so too, by analogy, is Jesus’ work at the side of Joseph the carpenter.

Both the Protoevangelium of James and the History of Joseph the Carpenter assert that Joseph was a widower with children from a previous marriage. Those details about Joseph prop up the idea that ...

Joseph the carpenter makes plows ... There is evidence that he came from either Bethlehem or Nazareth. He labored as a woodworker, a trade in which Jesus followed him. His language was a ...

It is as if they had been transported back in time 2,000 years to the birth of Christ and the simple rural community where Mary and Joseph lived, probably less than a mile away. This is Nazareth ...

The trite rhetoric that Jesus's human parents were poor, homeless migrants is unabridged fiction not worthy of repetition. Joseph, husband of Mary, was a skilled tradesman, a carpenter, in the ...

The scene suddenly switches to Nazareth. Joseph is working at a carpenter's bench. THOMAS: Is that Joseph? What's he doing? TEACHER: Joseph was a carpenter. That’s someone who makes things from ...

Every March 19th, the Catholic Church honors St. Joseph ... later moved to Nazareth, and dedicated his life to manual labor, possibly as a carpenter or mason. On his day, take a moment to say ...

The location of the home where Jesus, Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth when Jesus was a child ... which was an ancient word for craftsman or carpenter and it would have made sense that he could ...

“Joseph, who is a carpenter from Nazareth and who trusts in God’s plan for his young fiancée and for himself, reminds the Church to keep her eyes on what the world deliberately ignores ...