What do you know about saint Joseph?
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Joseph was a carpenter. He was Mary's husband. He was from the house of David. He is the patron saint of Italy. His day is March 19. That's a start. \nThe angel did it. Joseph was an innocent bystander.
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The imagination of Joseph Smith.
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Mother Teresa – Biography\nMother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.\n\nOn October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.\n\nToday the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. In 1963 both the Contemplative branch of the Sisters and the Active branch of the Brothers was founded. In 1979 the Contemplative branch of the Brothers was added, and in 1984 the Priest branch was established.\n\nThe Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers.\n\nThe Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969. By the 1990s there were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. Along with the Co-Workers, the lay Missionaries of Charity try to follow Mother Teresa's spirit and charism in their families.\n\nMother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards.\n\nFrom Nobel Lectures, Peace 1971-1980, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Irwin Abrams, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997 \n\nThis autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and later published in the book series Les Prix Nobel/Nobel Lectures. The information is sometimes updated with an addendum submitted by the Laureate. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.
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basically a professor follows various clues and comes to the conclusion that jesus and mary mgdalene had a child, and that his blood-line continues to this day.  this blood-line is the true "holy grail" - nothing to do with a cup that held his blood when he was on the cross.  The book implies that the catholic church has known this all along, and has kept it a secret - even making jesus out to be the son of god rather than mere mortal\n\nthere!
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The Messiah! The one who will come again. The one who was born out of virgin mary without sin! The one who is with God now and alive,. The one that asscended to the heavens! The one who performed many miracles by the help of God. We have very high respect and love Jesus (PBUH) very much. We learn from his teachings and also from his mother Mary (Mariam), who was a model of purity and devotion to God all mighty.
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God knows best and here is what i know from my knowledge and reading:\n\n[1] By the fig, and the olive. \n-the fig and the olive which is the place of Jurasalem of where God sent Jesus-Son-of-Mary(Peace be uppon him). juraselim was famous with its fig and olive. \n\n[2] By Mount Sinai. \n-this is the Mount of where God talked to Moses. \n\n[3] By this city of security (Makkah).\n-this is Makkah in Sudia Arabia (at the black house).\n\nthose three places are very important to God. and He swear with these three places to start Quran ch95
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Check this out:\nhttp://www.crimelibrary.com/serial%5Fkillers/history/joe%5Fball/
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Mary and Joseph did screw around,\nJames came from them and did abound.\nHe is Jesus brother, or half-brother if you will,\nThey had sex, yes, that's the deal.
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JOSEPH AND JESUS\n(to save time and space, when I think the parallel is obvious I don't include a "->" for connection to Jesus)\n\n\nCh 37 - Jacob's beloved son\nsent to his brothers\nhis brothers hated him/were jealous\n--> the leaders were jealous of Jesus\n\nJoseph's dreams of his eventual rule over his brothers\n    --> Jesus' announcements of his exaltation as son of man ?\n[Joseph's second dream concerns 'sun, moon & stars' bowing down to him\n--> Jesus DOES literally rule sun,moon & stars! (& all principalities & powers)]\n\nrejected, betrayed/sold for silver\nGen 37:19-20  They said to one another, "Here comes this dreamer. \nCome now, let us kill him...\n--> leaders of Jesus (in parable of tenants):\n"This is the heir, come let us kill him"\n\nCh 39-40\nimprisoned/condemned on false accusation\n(even then Potiphar, 'captain of the guard' does NOT want to kill him,\napparently recognizing his innocence?\n--> Pilate recognizes Jesus' innocence, tries not to crucify)\ncast into 'the pit' (ch 37 & 39)\n--> Jesus descends 'into the pit' (the REAL thing! =the grave)\n\nCh 40\n   (not directly about Joseph, but may point to Jesus)\ncupbearer & baker  [wine & bread?] 'lifted up' in two ways --\nexalted to serve the King  \nvs.  impaled/on a tree {on the third day}\n  --> Jesus is "lifted up" = on a tree (crucified)\nbut also exalted by the Father (play on words in John 12)\n\nCh 41\npeople marvel at his wisdom\n--> people often marvel at Jesus' teaching with authority\n(also the leaders in the temple marvel at wisdom of Jesus as a boy)\nraised up to serve the King\n\nCh 45 (cf. ch 50)\nforgives his brothers\n--> Jesus' death results in preaching of FORGIVENESS of sins\n   beginning with his faithless disciples, then those who crucified him!\n\n'you meant if for evil; God meant it for good' to save MANY lives (includes Egypt & nations) -\n        --> people killed Jesus but according to God's plan [Acts 2:23] resulting in salvation to the NATIONS\n\n<compare/contrast?\n   figure of God fulfilling his promise when Joseph's bones are taken to rest in the land or promise    \n   --> God fulfills promise to Jesus by NOT leaving him in the grave; a GREATER fulfilment, showing that God's deeds for & through Joseph... were indeed a "shadow" of something greater (just as Jospeh is brought out of 'the pit' of imprisonment, but Jesus from the pit of death itself >
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Personally, no. Mary was a Virgin, Immaculately Conceived, and was assumed into Heaven as a Virgin. \n\nHowever, some scholars believed that St. Joseph was a widow who was elderly and had grown up children  from that previous marriage and married the adolescent Mary as a favor to the High Priests of the Temple. Hence, Jesus had step-brothers. Other say that his reference to brothers is synonymous to cousins, which is how it was used back then, and still used today. \n\nOn Suday of Resurrection, the History Channel had a program about him, and on this topic you have brought up. The web History Channel web site might provide links to that show, as well as internet links to follow up on this subject.
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He was a carpenter from Nazareth.  He was older than Mary.
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His name was Emperor Francis Joseph. More info below:\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/iturks/html/tired_emperor.html
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According to Catholic Online, there is a St. Montanus.
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There was a man named Simeon living in Jerusalem. He was a good and godly man and was waiting for the One who would comfort Israel. The Holy Spirit was with him and had told him that before he died he would see the Lord’s Christ. Moved by the Spirit he came into the temple. And when Joseph and Mary brought Baby Jesus to give Him to the Lord, as the law commanded, Simeon was there. He took Jesus in his arms and praised God saying, “Now Lord, just as You promised, You are letting Your servant die in peace. I have seen the Saviour You have given to the world. He is a light for all nations and will bring honour to Your people Israel.”\n\nJoseph and Mary were amazed at what was said about Jesus. Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, “God has chosen this Child to cause the rise and fall of many in Israel. He will be like a warning sign that is rejected. He will expose the secret thoughts and purposes of many hearts. And your heart will be cut by a sword.”
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Joseph’s Prospects\n\nThe Scriptures are silent about the death of Joseph. But it is noteworthy that Mark 6:3 called Jesus “the son of Mary,” not Joseph. This indicates that Joseph was then dead. Moreover, if Joseph had lived until 33 C.E., it is unlikely that the impaled Jesus would have entrusted Mary to the care of the apostle John.—John 19:26, 27.\n\nJoseph, then, will be among the dead who will hear the voice of the Son of man and come forth in a resurrection. (John 5:28, 29) Learning of Jehovah’s provision for eternal life, undoubtedly Joseph will gladly avail himself of it and will be an obedient subject of the great heavenly King, Jesus Christ, even as he heeded divine direction over 1,900 years ago.\n\nStop & think, if Joseph went to Heaven when he passed away in death, then why do we speak of the Resurrection that is suppose to take place after Jesus comes again, in other words, if you go to Heaven or Hell when you die, you have nullified the Resurrection and have  made the Scriptures to be nothing but a lie.  Not only that, but the Heavenly Hope did not come about until after Jesus died and ascended to Heaven.\n\n4000 years had come and gone since Adam & Eve's creation and what did Jesus say about anyone going to Heaven:  \n\nJohn 3:13  Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man\n\nOut of all of the millions of people that had lived & died before Jesus came, none of them had & immortal soul, none of them went to Heaven.\n\nJesus described death as being in a deep sleep, so Joseph is sleeping & will be resurrected sometime in the future.\n\n
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ya know that's funny, my friend is trying to sell her house and buried a St Joseph statue head down in the yard, and I couldn't help but think this is like a magic spell, you have to do it just so and read a prayer (incantation?) bless a candle with oil, then light it, place the Holy Card (amulet?) in with the deed or mortage papers, just like from a book of magic
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1)  He is fatherless, word of God to Mary.  \n2)  When Mary gave birth to him, she went back to her people, they were startled as she is a pure soul who does not sin, "how can you do such a thing?" She did not answer, Jesus talked to them saying "I am the Prophet of God".\n3)  He was able to restore the blind's sight and bring some dead to life, with God's will.\n4)  He was not crucified, but lifted to heaven alive.\n5)  He was a Prophet of credibility (this word is mentioned about him the the Quran)...plus being a pure soul, like all other Prophets.\n6)  We are ordered to respect all Prophets.