Today is St. Joseph’s Day. March 19 has been the Feast of St. Joseph in Western Christianity since the tenth century. It is celebrated in many countries – a public holiday in some and a regional holiday in many others including Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Malta, Austria and Italy among others.
Saint Joseph was the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the foster father of Jesus. All we know about Joseph comes from the accounts of the nativity in the New Testament.
St. Joseph is the patron saint of fathers and in some predominately catholic countries, notably Italy, Portugal and Spain, Fathers’ Day is celebrated on St. Joseph’s Day.
Despite knowing so little about Joseph, he still has two feast days in the Western church. In his capacity as the patron saint of Workers, 1st May was established as the Feast of “St. Joseph the Worker” in 1955. This is seen as an attempt to counteract the social and non religious growth of Labor Day as a worldwide holiday.
Today is the Spring Equinox, known in pagan spirituality as the festival of Ostara or Eostre. Its Christian equivalent, Easter, is coming up soon as well. Since ancient times, rabbits and hares have been a common symbol of fertility and of the Goddess herself.
Bada Bing!
Look, if your cart is in the middle of the aisle and I need to get by, then yes, we are now playing bumper cars.
Who needs a social life when you have Netflix and a fridge full of food?
Damn! The hour we lost last weekend?! It was the one hour I was planning to go to the gym.
Why do they always have 5K runs for charity? Just once, couldn’t they have a sit for charity or nap for charity?
Just Blocked someone for correcting my grammar and it feelded good.
Studies have shown that intelligent people swear more than stupid motherf*ckers.
I released my own fragrance today. The rest of the people in the elevator didn’t like it.
My glasses broke when I was vacationing in a remote part of Alaska. There were no Optometrists, so I had to settle for an Optical Aleutian.
What do you call a 3.14 meter snake? A pi-thon.
Today is the birthday, in 1946, of Paul Atkinson, guitarist with The Zombies who had four US hits, ‘She’s Not There’, ‘Tell Her No’, ‘She’s Coming Home’, and ‘Time of the Season’. He later became an A&R executive, working for Columbia and RCA, discovering and signing such bands as ABBA, Bruce Hornsby, Mr. Mister, Judas Priest, and Michael Penn. Atkinson died on 1st April 2004 aged 58. This song is used frequently in media to represent the late ’60s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzpPy9hJYA8
Comments