What St. Joseph Has Taught Me About Being a Father


Thomas Griffin 3/19/25 (For National Catholic Register)

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St. Joseph has slowly changed my life.

I remember first turning to his intercession when I got engaged. For the first time in my life, it hit me: I was getting closer to becoming a father.

All men desire to leave a lasting impact on those around them. Priests and religious accomplish this through their spiritual fatherhood. Husbands and fathers accomplish this through the creation and formation of their own children.

As a young dad of three children under the age of 5, I find myself thinking about Joseph a lot. There is chaos. There are worries. There are fears about what the future will look like. In the midst of it all, there’s so much that Joseph has taught me about what it means to be a dad and a man.

What I have learned from studying the heart of Joseph and asking for his aid can be summarized in two ways: to trust and to be quiet.

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Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.


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