Attend Mass
The feast of the Annunciation is celebrated on the same day in both the old calendar and new calendar.
If you would like to attend a traditional Mass for the feast, find a Traditional Latin Mass near you (click here to explore).
Complete Consecration to St. Joseph
We highly recommend Father Donald Calloway’s “Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father”. This book is an excellent way to draw closer to our spiritual father St. Joseph. Be sure to start your reading for the consecration 33 days in advance of May 1.
Read Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum
From CatholicAnswers.com:
“‘Rerum Novarum’, the opening words and the title of the Encyclical issued by Leo XIII, May 15, 1891, on the ‘Condition of Labor’ Although the Encyclical follows the lines of the traditional teaching concerning the rights and duties of property and the relations of employed and employee, it applies the old doctrines specifically to modern conditions. Opening with a description of the grievances of the working classes, it proceeds to refute the false theories of the Socialists, and to defend the right of private ownership. The true remedy, continues the pope, is to be found in the combined action of the Church, the State, the employer, and the employed. The Church is properly interested in the social question because of its religious and moral aspects; the State has the right and the duty to intervene on behalf of justice and individual and social wellbeing; and employers and workers should organize into both mixed and separate associations for mutual protection and for self protection. All this is set forth with sufficient detail to reach the principal problems and relations of industrial and social life.”
Read the full encyclical here.
Read Pope Leo XIII’s Quamquam pluries
Quamquam pluries is an encyclical on Saint Joseph by Pope Leo XIII. It was issued on August 15, 1889 in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Leo XIII presented St. Joseph as a model at a time when the world and the Church was first wrestling with the challenges posed by modernity. Leo XIII was the first pope to draw the lines of a theology of Saint Joseph, with clearly defined titles that fit into the history of salvation, of human redemption, both at the level of the incarnation, as husband of Mary and father of Jesus, and at the level of the Church’s life, as its natural protector.
Click here to read the encyclical.
Pray Pope Pius X’s Prayer to St. Joseph
O Glorious Saint Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor, obtain for me the grace to work in a spirit of penance for the expiation of my many sins; to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my natural inclinations; to work with thankfulness and joy, considering it an honor to employ and develop by means of labor the gifts received from God; to work with order, peace, moderation, and patience, never shrinking from weariness and trials; to work above all with purity of intention and detachment from self, keeping unceasingly before my eyes death and the account that I must give of time lost, talents unused, good omitted, and vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God.
All for Jesus, all through Mary, all after thy example, O Patriarch, Saint Joseph. Such shall be my watch-word in life and in death.
Amen.