What better time than March, the Month of Saint Joseph, to recite the beautiful “Thirty Days Prayer to Saint Joseph?” What better time than this March? What better time than today? This can be the way you honor the Foster-Father of Our Blessed Lord during his month, a Lenten exercise and an opportunity to lift up our intentions at this critical point in time. This prayer states, “My sins have drawn down on me the just displeasure of my God, and so I am surrounded with unhappiness.” This goes for the whole world. Sin is the reason why it is all happening and it is now pay-up time. We all knew something had to break eventually because of the trajectory we were on. Well, look around. It’s breaking and time is short.
There is another more lengthy 30-day devotion called “The Holy Cloak of Saint Joseph.” Here is the PDF printable of the prayer mentioned above…
THIRTY DAYS PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH ~ PDF Printable
IN HONOR OF THE 30 YEARS SPENT WITH JESUS AND MARY
Saint Joseph’s feast on the 19th is also the date of the Spring Equinox this year. As preppers, Spring is one of the most exciting times of year! But often it seems to come too fast, so now is the time to plant your indoor seedlings (if that applies to your climate) and get that garden ready. If you haven’t gardened before but want to get started, there are so many resources available (try The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which is now offering a free “Beginner’s Guide to Gardening”). 90% of the battle is getting started. So maybe you could make that a Lenten goal while there are still 4 weeks left of Lent? Preparing and taking care of your family is certainly a noble endeavor. It is actually like a Corporal work of Mercy. And hopefully, at that difficult time in the coming days, you will have so much abundance, that you will be able to help others around you as well. Saint Isidore the Farmer, whose feast we celebrate on the 22nd, will be proud of you!
March ends with the solemn Easter Triduum and the 31st is Easter, the Solemnity of Solemnities. We celebrate the glorious Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only 9 days before the “X Marks the Spot Solar Eclipse” over North America (which some say is a prophetic sign of God’s wrath upon us). Wow, precisely enough time to pray a novena (and also perform the First Saturdays Devotion on April 6th)! If you are on our email list or have been following the blog, you already know about our…
Eclipse Pilgrimage of Mercy
This gets even more interesting. The week of the eclipse is April 7th-13th, Sunday to Saturday. April 7th is the feast of the Divine Mercy and April 8th, the day of the eclipse, is the Annunciation. We have added the Chaplet of Divine Mercy from Easter Sunday to April 8th, to the Pilgrimage format. During the week of the eclipse, the suggestion is to visit a holy Catholic place, such as a shrine, cathedral, etc, and pray the Rosary for mercy. If this is too difficult, any church will do. More details to follow.
Here are some notable feasts of March….
1st-First Friday of the Sacred Heart
2nd-First Saturday of the Immaculate Heart
3rd-Saint Katherine Drexel, 20th Century Saint
6th-Saints Felicitas & Perpetua, Martyrs
7th-Saint Thomas Aquinas
12th-Pope Saint Gregory the Great
17th-Passion Sunday / Saint Patrick
19th-SAINT JOSEPH
22nd-Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary / Saint Isidore the Farmer
24th-Palm Sunday / Saint Gabriel Archangel
28th-Holy Thursday
29th-GOOD FRIDAY (fast & abstinence)
30th-HOLY SATURDAY / EASTER VIGIL
31st-EASTER SUNDAY
Traditional Calendar for March
We discuss both trad and new feasts.