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As 100% Italian I've got to represent our day of celebration.
After all, didn't Bono say that the Irish were just like the Italians.. except without style..
(a little info on our day!)
Two days after the feast of the great Irish saint comes the day of the carpenter of Nazareth, Saint Joseph, "the just man," of whom the Gospels say little but who is beloved by generations of Italians and Italian-Americans, celebrated on March 19.
Though often pictured as an aged man, bearded and bent with years, Joseph has more recently been seen as younger, more fitted to his role as protector of the young Mary and her Child.
Saint Joseph is patron of many places and many trades. He is the guardian of the spiritual home of Christians, the Church, and of the material home, too.
The tradition of a St. Joseph's Day began when there was a drought in Sicily in the middle ages.
In desperation, people asked St. Joseph, their patron, to intervene.They promised, if rain came, they would prepare a big feast in his honor. The tradition says these prayers were answered with rainy weather.
In gratitude, huge banquet tables were set-up in public and poor people were invited to come and eat as much as they wanted.
Generosity marks this day,as it did the character of Joseph himself. In many nations it's a day of sharing with the poor and needy, and nowhere is this better carried out than in the nation that perhaps loves San Giuseppe the most: Italy.
In many Italian villages, especially in Sicily, everyone of any means contributes to a table spread in the public square as an offering for favors received from prayers to this kindly saint.
now: Salud! Go eat!
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Words tangled in her hair.. words soon to disappear
* U2 Take Me Higher *
The Macphisto Society
After all, didn't Bono say that the Irish were just like the Italians.. except without style..
(a little info on our day!)
Two days after the feast of the great Irish saint comes the day of the carpenter of Nazareth, Saint Joseph, "the just man," of whom the Gospels say little but who is beloved by generations of Italians and Italian-Americans, celebrated on March 19.
Though often pictured as an aged man, bearded and bent with years, Joseph has more recently been seen as younger, more fitted to his role as protector of the young Mary and her Child.
Saint Joseph is patron of many places and many trades. He is the guardian of the spiritual home of Christians, the Church, and of the material home, too.
The tradition of a St. Joseph's Day began when there was a drought in Sicily in the middle ages.
In desperation, people asked St. Joseph, their patron, to intervene.They promised, if rain came, they would prepare a big feast in his honor. The tradition says these prayers were answered with rainy weather.
In gratitude, huge banquet tables were set-up in public and poor people were invited to come and eat as much as they wanted.
Generosity marks this day,as it did the character of Joseph himself. In many nations it's a day of sharing with the poor and needy, and nowhere is this better carried out than in the nation that perhaps loves San Giuseppe the most: Italy.
In many Italian villages, especially in Sicily, everyone of any means contributes to a table spread in the public square as an offering for favors received from prayers to this kindly saint.
now: Salud! Go eat!
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Words tangled in her hair.. words soon to disappear
* U2 Take Me Higher *
The Macphisto Society