TODAY'S SAINT (Joseph of Arimathea)

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JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA

 

 

Joseph of Aarimathea was a just and devout man who was looking for the Kingdom of God. Although during our  Lord's public life he was afraid to show himself openly as His disciple, after the crucifixion he had the courage to seek out Pilate and ask for the Body of Jesus.Aided by Nicodemus, he took the the Body of the Savior frrom the Cross, bound it up in wrappings of cloth with with perfumed oil, and laid it in his own new tomb which had been hewn from a formation of rocck (Jn. 19, 38-42).

           

PRAYER

God, You alone are holy and without You no one is good. Through the interces-sion of  St. Joseph, grant that we may so live as not to be deprived of Your glory. Amen.