Wednesday — St. Joseph

Ite ad Joseph — go to Joseph. Pharaoh said it of the patriarch in Genesis; the Church has said it of his namesake for centuries. Joseph speaks not a single word in the Gospels — and that silence is the form of his obedience. He guards what is most precious without commentary. He is patron of fathers, of workers, of the universal Church, and above all of the dying, because (in tradition) he died between Mary and Jesus, the only soul ever to die so. Wednesday is his day. Bring him your difficulty.