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The year 2021, Saint Joseph Year

 

Father Gregory Mashtaki, Spiritual Advisor for English speaking Africa invites us to meditate on the figure of Saint Joseph, under whose patronage the year 2021 is placed.

For the month of September the theme chosen is the following: Saint Joseph and the elderly  - Relations with children and grandchildren (flight to Egypt).

From Pope Francis (With a father's heart):... "How many fathers, mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers, and teachers show our children, through simple and daily gestures, how to face and go through a crisis by readapting habits, looking up and stimulating prayer! ..

... To be a father means to introduce the child to the experience of life, to reality. Not to hold him back, not to imprison him, not to possess him, but to make him capable of choice, of freedom, of departures"...