Sunday 20 March 2011

St. Joseph

St. Joseph's feast day is one of those little bright spots during Lent...


I'm rather fond of the statue we have at Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen - the child Jesus entrusting his foster-father with the world, and St. Joseph shown as a relatively young man.

1 comment:

Richard Collins said...

I am certain that St Joseph was a young man and that the classical art and statuary of the church is actually wrong. It reminds me of the statue of Our Lady at Lourdes which was abhorred by St Bernadette as being nothing like the appearance of Our Lady.
According to Bernadette, Our lady was, of course, beautiful but also quite short as was Bernadette herself. You only have to see the height of the grotto to appreciate this truth.

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