In Honduras, like many other predominately-Catholic countries of the world, today is the feast of St. Joseph and, as such, is celebrated as Father’s Day. So, Happy Father’s Day!
Not much factual information is known about Joseph, but we know he was of the House of David and a traditionally believed to be a carpenter. Often in art, he is presented as an older man, but this is not biblical. In fact, he may have been the same age or younger than Mary, and many Bible scholars believe that Joseph and Mary were very likely teenagers when Jesus was born.
The Bible tells us that God spoke to Joseph in dreams, and Joseph obeyed the messages. For example, he took Mary into his home even when he learned she was pregnant and he was not the father, and he led the Holy Family to safety to escape King Herod’s genocide of male children.
The photo above shows Fr. Bob’s driver, Isaí in the middle, with his sons Emerson on the left and Jefferson on the right.