A Man Whose Name Was Joseph

Mark Shea has recently directed his readers over to Cows in Pick-Up Trucks and a post by Trisha Christ on Saint Joseph.
Please do go over and read it.

And while we're on the topic of this mystical father of all of Mary's children, I would like to recommend a wonderful book by one Fr Andrew Doze:

(The picture is also a link to Book Depository)

Now seems to be a fitting time for me to write about the Foster Father of Jesus. It is an especially fitting time because it's Christmas and soon to be the Feast of the Holy Family; moreover, my own dad recently died.To this end, I am drafting something on him (that is, Joseph) which I hope to post in the new year.