{"id":10262,"date":"2019-03-19T13:49:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=10262"},"modified":"2020-06-30T13:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T19:54:18","slug":"oh-st-joseph-you-deserve-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2019\/03\/19\/oh-st-joseph-you-deserve-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, St. Joseph&#8230;You Deserve Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10263\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10263\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10263\" src=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Joseph-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Joseph-279x300.jpg 279w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Joseph.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(photo via aggiecatholicblog.org)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every now and then, when it&#8217;s my turn to write the Jesus-Justice-Joy article, I&#8217;m left completely devoid either of inspiration or of time to write once inspiration strikes. Such is the case today. So, I&#8217;ll lean on the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, which tells me that <a href=\"http:\/\/usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/031919.cfm\">today is the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary<\/a>. Joseph was such a good and righteous man that the Church long ago declared him to be a saint. Appropriately, his likeness is featured prominently in most Catholic sanctuaries. \u00a0And yet, despite his faithfulness and his role as Jesus&#8217;s earthly father, we Catholics tend to drag St. Joseph through the mud \u2014 LITERALLY!<\/p>\n<p>For a very long time, many prospective home-sellers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, have dutifully adhered to the practice of using a small statue of St. Joseph to help them sell their home, a practice detailed in the following bullet points taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.st-josephstatue.com\/how-to-bury-st-joseph-statue\/\">st-josephstatue.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em> Bury the statue in the yard in the front of the house. Favorable spots are either close to the &#8220;For Sale&#8221; sign or close to the road.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bury the statue upside-down, facing the house.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Pray to Saint Joseph when you are burying him and keep praying until the house is sold.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>But the<strong> most important part\u00a0<\/strong>is to have faith all the time, in yourself, in your Sale and in Saint Joseph.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>After your\u00a0house is sold take\u00a0him with you to your new home and put him in a place of honor.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>If you live in a condo, bury the statue of St Joseph in a pot.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have long thought this practice was weird. And, what must St. Joseph think?! His reward for having been a devoted and hard-working husband and father is to spend eternity trying to help broker home sales, with all the blood rushing to his head.<\/p>\n<p>So, several years back, Orin and I wrote a song to make fun of the whole practice. Why not?!\u00a0 It seemed like the reasonable thing to do. :)<\/p>\n<p>Check it out below!<\/p>\n<p>-Shannon<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MB1r0kruNr0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Every now and then, when it&#8217;s my turn to write the Jesus-Justice-Joy article, I&#8217;m left completely devoid either of inspiration or of time to write once inspiration strikes. Such is the case today. So, I&#8217;ll lean on the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, which tells me that today is the Solemnity of St. Joseph,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2019\/03\/19\/oh-st-joseph-you-deserve-better\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,91,90,7,78,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-jesusjusticejoy","category-joy","category-music","category-parody","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10738,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions\/10738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}