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Saint of the Day
The feast the whole Church keeps today, the saints you can visit at their tomb, and what they are patrons of.
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The readings at Mass · 1 May 2025
Saint Joseph the Worker
From Vatican News — Word of the Day, following the General Roman Calendar, with a commentary from the Popes. Where a feast is kept on another day in your country, your parish’s readings may differ.
Optional memorial · White
Saint Joseph the Worker
Thursday of the Second Week of Easter
Patron saints of the day
- Saint Joseph the Worker — patron of workers
- Saint Peregrine Laziosi — patron of cancer
The General Roman Calendar; tombs and patronages verified against Catholic sources. Local calendars may keep other saints today.
From the Fathers
The Fathers speak
The Church for his mother
The spouse of Christ cannot be adulterous; she is uncorrupted and pure. She knows one home; she guards with chaste modesty the sanctity of one couch. She keeps us for God. … He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.