It's St. Joseph's Day!

jimmurphy

Mar 19, 2015 at 5:45am

It's that day again!

hankzona

Mar 19, 2015 at 6:54am Edited

ready for their close-up (from Conca d'Ora)...and I realized I posted this last year at this time too.

dave

Mar 19, 2015 at 6:57am

I had churros with lunch.

Tom_Reingold

Mar 19, 2015 at 7:20am

Oh my god, that looks so good!

afa

Mar 19, 2015 at 7:28am

GUYS can we bump this thread up the day *before* St. Joseph's day next year? I need at least a day to plan for this.

mumstheword

Mar 19, 2015 at 7:35am

As a diabetic, I'm trying NOT TO THINK OF THESE!!!!!!! Thanks a whole bunch..... :-D

As_If

Mar 19, 2015 at 8:47am

afa said:
GUYS can we bump this thread up the day *before* St. Joseph's day next year? I need at least a day to plan for this.

Along the same lines, I was wondering if Natales's might just have them all weekend? thoughts? tia

leighan

Mar 19, 2015 at 8:53am

Dammit, I can't find them in SC. And I had the worst cannoli of my life last night. Oh, the humanity.

jimmurphy

Mar 19, 2015 at 9:57am

afa said:
GUYS can we bump this thread up the day *before* St. Joseph's day next year? I need at least a day to plan for this.

I'll try to remember earlier, just for you afa... ;-)

nohero

Mar 19, 2015 at 10:04am

I always consider St. Patrick's Day as a reminder that St. Joseph's Day is imminent. :-D

jimmurphy

Mar 19, 2015 at 10:18am

nohero said:
I always consider St. Patrick's Day as a reminder that St. Joseph's Day is imminent. :-D

Exactly! I've found that the Irish and the Italians get along quite nicely. oh oh

Tom_Reingold

Mar 19, 2015 at 10:44am

jimmurphy said:
Exactly! I've found that the Irish and the Italians get along quite nicely.

But as Frank McCourt points out, when they marry, it's better if the boy is Irish and the Girl is Italian than vice versa.

Just a reminder -

"Joseph is one of those figures in the Bible without a speaking part. Not a single word, except for the implied fiat to God’s word played out again and again. What you get instead is a dreamer, a good man the Bible calls him, just someone who seems to have paid attention to what God had planned for him. We learn from the elaborate genealogies that Matthew and Luke give us (both different in their particulars) that Joseph (a common enough name in first-century Palestine) was a tekton (in the Greek) or faber (in the Latin), that is, a carpenter or worker in wood or stone, from the hillbilly butt-end-of-jokes village of Nazareth, and that he was somehow descended from the great House of David. Which tells us if it tells us anything just how far downhill that lineage had fallen 1,000 years after David ruled Israel. In retrospect one sees it as all part of God’s gracious design, this taking the lowly of this world and raising them to unheard-of new heights. His plan. His way of proceeding. Certainly not anything Herod or Caesar or even we could have dreamed up."

http://americamagazine.org/issue/431/article/st-joseph

boomie

Mar 20, 2015 at 3:48am

Tom_Reingold said:
jimmurphy said:
Exactly! I've found that the Irish and the Italians get along quite nicely.

But as Frank McCourt points out, when they marry, it's better if the boy is Irish and the Girl is Italian than vice versa.

Oyyyy don't get me started on this combo, which I am very familiar with.

jimmurphy

Mar 19, 2016 at 4:23am

It's St. Joseph's Day again! Any noteworthy new zeppole sources? Any closings?

Apologies to afa for the"late" posting. cheese

nohero

Mar 19, 2016 at 4:33am

Zeppole after Sunday Mass tomorrow at St. Joseph's (naturally) in Maplewood, along with Irish soda bread (Irish baked goods aren't as fun, but what can you do?).

jimmurphy said:

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boomie

Mar 20, 2016 at 6:19am

Got mine for my mom at Natales as usual. One custard, one cannoli cream.

afa

Mar 20, 2016 at 10:59am

DANGIT!!!!!

annemarie

Mar 20, 2016 at 3:38pm

SIGH! It's my brother's birthday and you think I'd remember that it was also St Joseph's Day. ARGHHHHH.

jimmurphy

Mar 17, 2017 at 10:29pm

Sunday! Fair warning. grin

jimmurphy

Mar 19, 2020 at 8:54am

Today!

nohero

Mar 19, 2020 at 9:21am

It may be easier to find a bakery than to find the milk and eggs needed, but either way today calls for zeppole.

https://www.cookingwithnonna.com/italian-cuisine/zeppole-di-san-giuseppe-st-josephs-pastries.html

nohero

Mar 19, 2020 at 9:27am

St. Joseph's Day Mass at noon, streamed from St. Joe's in Maplewood on Father Jim's page on the Book of Face.

https://www.facebook.com/FatherJimWorth

soda

Mar 19, 2020 at 9:32am Edited

Throwback Thursday: I meant to post this Tuesday...

Morganna

Mar 19, 2020 at 10:04am Edited

My grandpa, from Sicily made Pasta di San Giuseppe on St. Joseph's Day.

One version.

Pasta, Olive Oil, Garlic, Parsley, Pignolis, Parmesan and Golden Raisins with Bread Crumbs to represent the sawdust, as Joseph was a carpenter.

Most Sicilians add sardines or anchovies. I skip the fish and use a vegan Parmesan from Daiya, found in Shop Rite or Whole Foods.

Mangia!

iwasmim

Mar 19, 2020 at 10:10am

We were supposed to be celebrating St. Joseph's Day in New Orleans with the Mardi Gras Indians and the amazing St. J's Day altars they do there. Obviously that did not happen, but I hope everyone has a special day.

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