SPEAKER_00: See some of you smiling already.
SPEAKER_00: You know what's coming, right?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
SPEAKER_00: So today we celebrate the solemnity of who?
SPEAKER_00: Saint Joseph.
SPEAKER_00: And I mentioned at the beginning of the Mass I want to focus on one aspect of his life, Saint Joseph, the who, the dreamer.
SPEAKER_00: Saint Joseph the Dreamer.
SPEAKER_00: You know, today we heard in the gospel how the angel spoke to Joseph in a dream.
SPEAKER_00: I have a question for you.
SPEAKER_00: How many people here has God ever spoken to you in a dream?
SPEAKER_00: How many people here would you say God has ever spoken to you in a dream before?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Few hands.
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm gonna ask for you to do something a little braver.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we have good dreams, sometimes bad dreams, sometimes we have nightmares.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes God speaks to us in dreams.
SPEAKER_00: Who in here would feel comfortable sharing with us maybe a dream that God has shared with you?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, a dream that where God has spoken to you.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, you want to share a dream God's given to you?
SPEAKER_00: What's that dream?
SPEAKER_04: A vocation where I'm gonna be when I grow up.
SPEAKER_00: Whoa, God gave you a dream for your vocation.
SPEAKER_00: Vocation that's a pretty big word.
SPEAKER_00: Vocation.
SPEAKER_04: My job is gonna be a pediatrician.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00: Good.
SPEAKER_00: I thought they were clapping because you were gonna say you're gonna be a nun or something.
SPEAKER_00: Like a share if God ever spoke to you in a dream like Joseph, and if you could share what what that was.
SPEAKER_00: What was your dream?
SPEAKER_03: To be a nun.
SPEAKER_00: To be a nun! Oh, wow, interesting.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, can we help Pastor?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Right here.
SPEAKER_00: What was God's dream for you?
SPEAKER_01: Something that I need to do for my parents.
SPEAKER_00: Something you need to do for your parents.
SPEAKER_01: Something nice that I need to do for my parents.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, you want to share what that is?
SPEAKER_01: Uh I need to help them with chores.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: God told you that you need to help your parents with chores.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Could you help pass down the mic, please?
SPEAKER_03: He says he loves me.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, God says he loves you in a dream.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, couple here.
SPEAKER_03: That Jesus was alive.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus alive.
SPEAKER_00: Wonderful.
SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
SPEAKER_00: Let's go a couple more.
SPEAKER_00: To say Hail Mary.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, last one.
SPEAKER_00: You forgot.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's okay.
SPEAKER_00: I forget my dreams too sometimes.
SPEAKER_03: To remember my pendants?
SPEAKER_00: To remember your penance?
SPEAKER_00: Like for confession?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, what was your penance?
SPEAKER_03: To say one hail Mary.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, good.
SPEAKER_00: To say one hail Mary.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: So God has spoken to you through these dreams, right?
SPEAKER_00: And we shared how God spoke to Joseph in these dreams.
SPEAKER_00: How many people here know how many dreams does the Bible say that Joseph had?
SPEAKER_00: Or how at least how many dreams that the Bible shares that Saint Joseph has?
SPEAKER_00: How many people know?
SPEAKER_00: Let's see who knows.
SPEAKER_00: How many dreams does the Bible say or the stories that the Bible shares that Saint Joseph had?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go back here and I'm gonna come this side.
SPEAKER_00: How many dreams?
SPEAKER_04: Three.
SPEAKER_00: Three close.
SPEAKER_00: You're close.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, can you help pass down the mic?
SPEAKER_03: Five.
SPEAKER_00: Uh go down.
SPEAKER_03: Eleven.
SPEAKER_00: So you got three, it's pretty close.
SPEAKER_00: Five, you're very you're so close.
SPEAKER_00: You're so close.
SPEAKER_00: You have three, five, what how many dreams?
SPEAKER_03: Two.
SPEAKER_00: Two.
SPEAKER_00: You guys are just you're right around it.
SPEAKER_00: You're so close.
SPEAKER_00: You're you're getting there.
SPEAKER_00: You're getting there.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Four?
SPEAKER_00: Okay, four.
SPEAKER_00: All right, you have four dreams.
SPEAKER_00: Four dreams of Saint Joseph.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Well, we heard the first one today, right?
SPEAKER_00: So the angel says to Joseph to take someone into his home.
SPEAKER_00: Who did the angel say to for Joseph to take into his home?
SPEAKER_00: Who was that?
SPEAKER_00: Who was it?
SPEAKER_02: Mary.
SPEAKER_00: That's right, Mary's wife into his home.
SPEAKER_00: The second dream was when uh God said to Joseph to flee to Egypt to escape somebody.
SPEAKER_00: To escape a ruler.
SPEAKER_00: Who knows the name of that ruler?
SPEAKER_00: This is the second dream that Saint Joseph had to escape somebody.
SPEAKER_00: Who was that somebody?
SPEAKER_01: King Herod.
SPEAKER_00: That's right, King Herod.
SPEAKER_00: And then the third dream was when the angel said, Joseph, come back to Israel because something happened.
SPEAKER_00: Something had come back, come back now.
SPEAKER_00: Because you escaped Herod.
SPEAKER_00: Now come back because something happened.
SPEAKER_00: What happened?
SPEAKER_00: Because the angel asked him to come back.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go around this way, okay?
SPEAKER_00: What happened in the third dream?
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_03: Because he died down.
SPEAKER_00: He died down, yes.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so Herod, he he passed away.
SPEAKER_00: And then the last dream that the angel uh shared with Joseph is okay, he's going back to Israel.
SPEAKER_00: He's like, make a detour.
SPEAKER_00: Make a detour and go to the city of to the town of what town?
SPEAKER_00: What town?
SPEAKER_01: Bethlehem.
SPEAKER_00: Close.
SPEAKER_00: You're I you're technically right.
SPEAKER_00: But the but what are the scripture?
SPEAKER_00: Nineveh?
SPEAKER_00: Nineveh close close.
SPEAKER_00: It does start with an N too.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Alright, what is it?
SPEAKER_00: Can you pass the mic?
SPEAKER_03: Um, Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, Jerusalem starts with a J.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's good.
SPEAKER_00: All right, what do you think?
SPEAKER_03: Ireland.
SPEAKER_00: Ireland, okay.
SPEAKER_00: Patrick's two days ago, right?
SPEAKER_00: That was two days ago.
SPEAKER_00: So go back to where?
SPEAKER_01: Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: Egypt, okay.
SPEAKER_00: N is the place.
SPEAKER_00: That's good.
SPEAKER_00: All right.
SPEAKER_00: I know I tr you guys can get this.
SPEAKER_00: I know you can.
SPEAKER_00: I trust you.
SPEAKER_03: Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_00: You got we got Jerusalem already.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Starts with an N.
SPEAKER_03: Um I forgot.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Who who knows the place?
SPEAKER_00: It starts with an N.
SPEAKER_03: Nazareth.
SPEAKER_00: Nazareth.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, Nazareth.
SPEAKER_00: You know, Nazareth, Ireland, that's pretty close, right?
SPEAKER_00: I mean.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so four dreams.
SPEAKER_00: Four dreams that that that Joseph had.
SPEAKER_00: Now, here's another question for you.
SPEAKER_00: Alright, this is a trivia question, okay?
SPEAKER_00: So we have four dreams of Saint Joseph.
SPEAKER_00: How many images of Saint Joseph do you see in our church?
SPEAKER_00: Now, now don't count, don't count the screens, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Don't count the screens, but if you just look at the the structure of our church, how many pictures, images, maybe a statue?
SPEAKER_00: Well, actually, let's let's let's not do statues.
SPEAKER_00: Let's just do images of Joseph that you see in our church.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, you look think look carefully, look carefully, see carefully.
SPEAKER_00: All right, excluding excluding the screens.
SPEAKER_00: How many do you see in our church?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: Two.
SPEAKER_00: Two?
SPEAKER_00: Close.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, what do you think?
SPEAKER_01: Three.
SPEAKER_00: Close.
SPEAKER_00: Four?
SPEAKER_00: Four, okay.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna show you, all right?
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna show you.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Four images.
SPEAKER_00: If you look back, you see the main one, right?
SPEAKER_00: Right there in the center, that's one.
SPEAKER_00: Then to the left, you have the carpenter, that's two.
SPEAKER_00: And then if you look right, he's what?
SPEAKER_00: He's praying.
SPEAKER_00: That's three.
SPEAKER_00: So there's three stained glass windows of Saint Joseph.
SPEAKER_00: Where's the fourth?
SPEAKER_00: Where is it?
SPEAKER_00: Behind me?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, on my shirt.
SPEAKER_00: That's true.
SPEAKER_00: Let's can let's not count this one though, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Let's this, yeah, but that's good.
SPEAKER_00: Where up there?
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
SPEAKER_00: Up here is another image of Joseph and the birth of Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: So four stained glass images of Saint Joseph.
SPEAKER_00: But, okay, so four images and how many dreams?
SPEAKER_00: Four dreams.
SPEAKER_00: Four images, four dreams.
SPEAKER_00: But we also have a statue, don't we?
SPEAKER_00: We also have a statue of Saint Joseph.
SPEAKER_00: You guys know where the statue is?
SPEAKER_00: Can you point to where the statue is?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, that's true.
SPEAKER_00: There's a little statue you guys brought up today.
SPEAKER_00: But like the main one, like the one who's that's always here.
SPEAKER_00: Can you point to where the statue of Saint Joseph is?
SPEAKER_00: Which direction?
SPEAKER_00: I see everybody pointing in different directions.
SPEAKER_00: The main one.
SPEAKER_00: Main statue of Saint Joseph.
SPEAKER_00: Back there, right?
SPEAKER_00: Back in the corner over there.
SPEAKER_00: So if you ever get there, it is.
SPEAKER_00: That's on shown on the screen there.
SPEAKER_00: Statue of Saint Joseph.
SPEAKER_00: I want to show you something too.
SPEAKER_00: I know this homie is a little bit longer because it's uh our big solemnity, and so I hope you bear with me.
SPEAKER_00: I have a statue of Saint Joseph.
SPEAKER_00: You want to see it?
SPEAKER_00: No, he didn't die.
SPEAKER_00: No, this is not him.
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: This is Saint Joseph sleeping.
SPEAKER_00: It is Saint Joseph the dreamer.
SPEAKER_00: Now, um uh I have this in my office where I work.
SPEAKER_00: And anytime I have like a hard decision to to make, I ask Saint Joseph to sleep on it.
SPEAKER_00: I I I I ask him to pray on it.
SPEAKER_00: I put it under him.
SPEAKER_00: Mrs.
SPEAKER_00: Hawley knows what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_00: Because I have my right, Mrs.
SPEAKER_00: Hawley?
SPEAKER_00: I I have my leadership meeting every week, and Ms.
SPEAKER_00: Hawley's part of my leadership team.
SPEAKER_00: And so uh whenever I have a hard decision to make, it's like I don't know what to do about this.
SPEAKER_00: Okay, St.
SPEAKER_00: Joseph, sleep on it.
SPEAKER_00: All right, pray on it.
SPEAKER_00: And I ask him to to dream like he dreamed in the gospel and to reveal to us what's what's the decision that that you want, right?
SPEAKER_00: This is what I do, right?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Mrs.
SPEAKER_00: Hawley says yes.
SPEAKER_00: And Deacon Nick is part of my leadership team too.
SPEAKER_00: He's over there, he knows this statue.
SPEAKER_00: And so does Claudia, our director of evangelization.
SPEAKER_00: They're part of my leadership team.
SPEAKER_00: Hard decision, ask Saint Joseph to sleep on it.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Is there something that you would like Saint Joseph to sleep on?
SPEAKER_00: To dream on?
SPEAKER_00: To help you pray for?
SPEAKER_00: Then we're gonna we'll conclude our homily with this, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Can you share with us some things you want Saint Joseph to pray with and for you for?
SPEAKER_00: What would you like to ask Saint Joseph to pray for you?
SPEAKER_00: And we'll conclude our homily with this, as you share with us, okay?
SPEAKER_00: What would you like him to sleep on, to dream on, to pray for?
SPEAKER_03: Family.
SPEAKER_00: For your family?
SPEAKER_00: Okay, what else would you like him to pray for, to sleep on?
SPEAKER_01: Loving.
SPEAKER_00: Loving, okay.
SPEAKER_00: Alright?
SPEAKER_01: Grades.
SPEAKER_00: Grades?
SPEAKER_00: Are you not doing good on grades?
SPEAKER_00: No comment.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: What would you like St.
SPEAKER_00: Joseph pray for or sleep on?
SPEAKER_03: Grades.
SPEAKER_00: Grades too?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: What else?
SPEAKER_00: Somebody who hasn't gone yet, who hasn't raised their hand yet.
SPEAKER_01: Oh.
SPEAKER_01: Friends?
SPEAKER_00: Friends?
SPEAKER_01: To spend more time with my mom?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, spend more time with your mom?
SPEAKER_01: Beds.
SPEAKER_00: Beds?
SPEAKER_00: Do you have an uncomfortable bed or something?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: What do you want?
SPEAKER_02: My little brother.
SPEAKER_00: Your little brother.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_02: My new pillow sheet.
SPEAKER_00: Your new pillow sheet.
SPEAKER_00: Pillow sheets?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: That's an interesting thing to pray on.
SPEAKER_01: The community.
SPEAKER_00: The community.
SPEAKER_00: Beautiful.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Last couple ones.
SPEAKER_01: School.
SPEAKER_00: School.
SPEAKER_00: Right.
SPEAKER_01: My grades.
SPEAKER_00: Your grades?
SPEAKER_00: That's three people with grades.
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_04: Test.
SPEAKER_00: Test.
SPEAKER_04: The maker of heaven and earth.
SPEAKER_00: The maker of heaven and earth.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So, whatever your prayer intentions, we're going to ask Saint Joseph to pray on them, okay?
SPEAKER_00: So when I say Saint Joseph, we're going to respond, pray for us.
SPEAKER_00: And we're going to ask for his prayers, okay?
SPEAKER_00: And together, Saint Joseph, pray for us.
SPEAKER_00: In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.