{"id":167717,"date":"2026-05-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carfundacion.roymo.info\/blog\/san-jose-obrero-quien-fue-jose-de-nazaret-el-padre-de-jesus\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:33:54","slug":"san-jose-obrero-quien-fue-el-padre-de-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/san-jose-obrero-quien-fue-el-padre-de-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1, St. Joseph the Worker: Who was the father of Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Joseph has several feast days on our calendar. In May, on the first day of the month, we celebrate St. Joseph the Worker, patron saint of workers. He was the one who supported and cared for Jesus and Mary with his carpentry skills. On his feast of March 19, Pope Leo XIV invited us to pay special attention to the figure of St. Joseph. To this end, he pointed out the two unique virtues that define the father of Jesus: \u00abJoseph shows us that presence and guardianship are inseparable dimensions.<\/strong>\u00bb y \u00abIn it we recognize that to welcome, in addition to being present, is also to take care. To be a guardian means to be attentive to others, to respect their choices and to take care of them\u00bb.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00abLove St. Joseph very much, love him with all your soul, because he is the person who, with Jesus, has loved St. Mary the most and the one who has treated God the most: the one who has loved Him the most, after our Mother. He deserves your affection, and it is good for you to treat him, because he is a Master of interior life, and he can do much before the Lord and before the Mother of God\u00bb, Forge, 554<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography of St. Joseph the Worker of Nazareth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Both St. Matthew and St. Luke speak of St. Joseph as a man descended from an illustrious lineage: that of David and Solomon, kings of Israel. The details of this ancestry are historically somewhat confusing: we do not know which of the two genealogies, which the evangelists bring, corresponds to Mary and which to St. Joseph, who was her father according to Jewish law. We do not know if his hometown was Bethlehem, where he went to register, or Nazareth, where he lived and worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know, however, that he was not a rich person: he was a worker, like millions of other men throughout the world; he exercised the laborious and humble office that God had chosen for himself, by taking our flesh and wanting to live thirty years as one more among us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sacred Scripture says that Joseph was a craftsman. Several Fathers add that he was a carpenter. St. Justin, speaking of Jesus' life of work, affirms that he made plows and yokes. (St. Justin, Dialogus cum Tryphone, 88, 2, 8 (PG 6, 687).<\/em>Perhaps, based on these words, St. Isidore of Seville concludes that Joseph was a blacksmith. In any case, a worker who worked in the service of his fellow citizens, who had a manual skill, the fruit of years of effort and sweat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph's great human personality is evident from the Gospel narratives: at no time does he appear to us as a man who is timid or afraid of life; on the contrary, knows how to deal with problems, to get ahead in difficult situations, to assume with responsibility and initiative the tasks entrusted to him\/her.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who was St. Joseph the Worker in the Catholic Church?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The whole Church recognizes in St. Joseph her protector and patron. Throughout the centuries he has been spoken of, highlighting various aspects of his life, continually faithful to the mission entrusted to him by God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n