Pauca Verba

It's a talkative world . And when we talk a lot there's always the risk of speaking glibly, superficially ~ like rushing into a...

Flight into Egypt ~ Francisco Zurbaran 1598-1664 This painting by Francisco Zurbaran of The Flight Into Egypt is full of life: th...

Joseph smiling!  Here is his statue found on  the facade of the 13th century gothic cathedral of Reims in France. We might imagine tha...

THIS AMAZING PAINTING  of Saint Joseph and the Child Jesus comes from 17th-18th century Peru. Of course the pair didn't dress lik...

  HERE IS JOSEPH,  way down in the bottom left corner of the icon. He is sitting all alone on a tree stump, his hand in his...

RECENTLY POPE FRANCIS ASKED  the priests of the Latin Rite around the world to place Saint Joseph's name in the Eucharistic Prayer o...