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Thank you, Bishop Jugis, for the Year of St. Joseph. He is the patron and protector of the Church, patron of the sick and patron of fathers, among many other titles. But another patronage may have puzzled some of you as it did me, at least when I first heard of it: patron of a “happy death.”
When His disciples asked Him how to pray, Jesus taught them the Our Father. In it we pray: “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” We pray that like Jesus we might be obedient to the Father, carrying out the will of the Father in our lives. One part of that will is to forgive those who sin against us.