Ave Maria Meditations
Oh, what a Saint is the glorious Saint Joseph! He is not only a Patriarch, but the most distinguished among the Patriarchs. He is not merely a confessor, but far more than a confessor, for in him are included the dignity of the bishop, the generosity of the martyr, the excellence of the other saints.
Saint Joseph will obtain for us, if we repose confidence in him, an increase in every kind of virtue, but particularly in those which he possessed in a pre-eminent degree. These are a perfect purity of body and mind, humility, constancy, fortitude, and perseverance: virtues which will render us victorious over our enemies in this life and enable us to obtain the grace of enjoying in the life to come those rewards which are prepared for the imitators of Saint Joseph.
Saint Francis de Sales
