A Man’s Man

Last May 1 was the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. St. Jo is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic Church. Let share my personal story with St Jo. There is a church there in Balintawak dedicated to St. Joseph the Worker. I always pass there everyday, since my elementary days. When I began to work I still passed that church. Few years back I was working for an online gambling company who does every now and then some porn related projects. During those times I already came back to my Catholic Faith. I was very uneasy with the company I was working back then. Every time I would pass that St. Joseph Church I am reminded of what the Bible called St. Joseph, “a just man”. I knew if I was a Catholic I cannot be a “just man” working for a gambling and porn industry. So I prayed to God and to St Joseph back then to give me the courage to leave my work. Thanks to St. Jo, I left that job after some weeks.

It these times where there is a crisis in manhood. Where men acts like boys to be men, St Joseph is one solid role model. Men today prove they are men by being “bad boys”. They so consumed by their own pursuit of personal success that they are ready to sacrifice everything, even their love ones for it. How sad. St Jo shows us what a true man is. In the Bible St. Jo did not even said a single word. He just did what he had to do to take care of Mary and Jesus. He worked hard and prayed hard. A real man is man who lives not for himself but for others, specially their wife and children. St Jo did everything for Jesus and Mary. There was no “selfishness” in St Joseph. He was a strong man but did not act like a “bad boy.” Joseph strength of character came from within. He did not need to prove anything to the outside world. What a man! For all those women out there who like bad boys, that’s what you are getting a BOY!

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