The Month of March is dedicated to St. Joseph

St. Joseph is most well-known as the patron saint of fathers, families, and workers, but he is in fact the patron of a multitude of causes and needs as listed below.

against doubt
against hesitation
accountants
attorneys
barristers
bursars
cabinetmakers
carpenters
cemetery workers
children
civil engineers
confectioners
craftsmen
dying people
educators
emigrants
exiles
expectant mothers
families
fathers
furniture makers
grave diggers
happy death
holy death
house hunters
immigrants
interior souls
joiners
laborers
lawyers
married people
orphans
people in doubt
people who fight communism
pioneers
pregnant women
social justice
solicitors
teachers
travelers
unborn children
wheelwrights
workers
working people

Saint Quotes About Saint Joseph

“Knowing by experience St. Joseph’s astonishing influence with God, I would wish to persuade everyone to honor him with particular devotion. I have always seen those who honored him in a special manner make progress in virtue, for this heavenly protector favors in a striking manner the spiritual advancement of souls who commend themselves to him.”
- St. Teresa of Avila

“In human life, Joseph was Jesus’ teacher in their daily contact, full of refined affection, glad to deny himself to take better care of Jesus. Isn’t that reason enough for us to consider this just man, this holy patriarch, in whom the faith of the Old Covenant comes to full fruition, as a master of interior life? Interior life is nothing but continual and direct conversation with Christ, so as to become one with him. And Joseph can tell us many things about Jesus. Therefore, never neglect devotion to him—Ite ad Ioseph: “Go to Joseph”—as Christian tradition puts it in the words of the Old Testament (Gen 41:55)”
- St. Josemaría Escriva

“Devotion to St. Joseph is one of the choicest graces that God can give to a soul, for it is tantamount to revealing the entire treasury of our Lord’s graces. When God wishes to raise a soul to greater heights, he unites it to St. Joseph by giving it a strong love for the good saint.”
- St. Peter Julian Eymard

“Truly, I doubt not that the angels, wondering and adoring, came thronging in countless multitudes to that poor workshop to admire the humility of him who guarded that dear and divine child, and labored at his carpenter’s trade to support the son and the mother who were committed to his care.”
- St. Francis de Sales

“His was the title of father of the Son of God, because he was the Spouse of Mary, ever Virgin. He was our Lord’s father, because Jesus ever yielded to him the obedience of a son. He was our Lord’s father, because to him were entrusted, and by him were faithfully fulfilled, the duties of a father, in protecting Him, giving Him a home, sustaining and rearing Him, and providing Him with a trade”
- St. John Henry Newman

“Whereas Adam and Eve were the source of evil which was unleashed on the world, Joseph and Mary are the summit from which holiness spreads all over the earth.”
- Pope St. John Paul II