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Steyl
Sacred ground of the Arnoldus Family
Cradle of three religious missionary congregations
SVD
Society of the Divine Word
September 8, 1875
SSpS
Missionary Servants of the Holy Spirit
December 8, 1889
SSpSAP
Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration
December 8, 1896

A journey with Jesus and Mary accompanied by St. Joseph

March 19 is the feast of St. Joseph, one of the patrons of our Arnoldus family.
On December 8, 2020, with the Apostolic Letter “Patris corde” (with a father’s heart), Pope Francis has invited the Church to dedicate St. Joseph.
Pope Francis highlights some qualities of St. Joseph that serve as inspirations for the daily life of Christians: a loving, tender and obedient person; a person who does the will of God and who helps his/her neighbor; a person who is brave, creative and an example of love for the poor; a person who teaches the value, dignity and  joy of work; as well as a person and  who had the graciousness to accept to play second fiddle to Mary and Jesus.
The devotion of St. Arnold to the adoptive father of Jesus, made our founder commit several of the missionary houses to the protection of St. Joseph.

   In The Little Messenger of the Heart of Jesus, Arnold writes about St. Joseph:

“There is no doubt that the Joseph of the Old Testament must be regarded as the model of Jesus’ foster father in many aspects of his life. Just as Joseph was the administrator of pharaoh’s granary in Egypt, so St. Joseph, is the administrator of the heavenly granaries. It is also true that the Church is the living Christ. And just as St. Joseph nourished and protected Christ and his holy Mother during their earthly lives, so he still nourishes and protects the servants of Christ who have devoted themselves to the practice of virtue in a special way. May St. Joseph also protect us and provide us not only with the earthly but also the heavenly bread of grace, so that we can become really good and spiritual.
Good and loving St. Joseph pray for us! Amen.”

With St. Arnold we pray:
“Good and loving St. Joseph, pray for us! Amen”.

Prayer to St. Joseph

Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer,
Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
To you God entrusted his only Son;
in you Mary placed her trust;
with you Christ became man.
Blessed Joseph, to us too,
show yourself a father
and guide us in the path of life.
Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage,
and defend us from every evil. Amen.
(Pope Francis, Patris Code)

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St. Arnold Janssen had attributed divine providence to the intercession of St. Joseph. For the Founder St. Joseph would be like the heavenly Schatzmeister (“procurator”) of the missionary work he had begun (cf. J. Ommerbon, Our Founder’s Veneration of St. Joseph). This was glimpsed in the issues of the Little Messenger of the Heart of Jesus (Cf. May and July 1875; February and March 1876). According to St. Arnold, all donations were fruits of this mediation of St. Joseph in those years of the austere beginning of the missionary congregations in Steyl …
Author: Saju George Aruvelil, SVD
Fr. Arnold did not found a Lay Mission Partner organization. However, thanks to his membership in the Apostleship of Prayer, for him there was no question that lay people had their God-given place in the missionary activities of the church. So let us first see how the Apostleship involved the laity in mission…
Author: Jurgen Ommerborn, SVD
This is the first biography of Sister Mary Michael, who died on February 25, 1934. The author was a pioneer of historiography and spirituality of the Arnoldus Family – Father Hermann Fischer. In the introduction to the book he writes the following: “After teaching in the diaspora for ten years, Adolfine Tönnies joined the newly-founded Congregation of the Steyl Missionary Sisters. Five years later its Founder, Fr. Arnold Janssen, appointed a group of Sisters for the ministry of perpetual adoration, thus laying the foundation for the new Congregation, Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration. Adolfine Tönnies who, by that time, bore the religious name Sister Michaele, was one of the first members in the new Congregation. According to the plan of Providence, she was called to be its first superior. For nearly four decades, she was so involved in its inner and outer construction that she can rightly be called its co-foundress. In many respects, her story is the history of this Congregation, and the spirit of this Congregation is essentially a mirror of her own spirit.”
Author: Hermann Fischer, SVD
Help us Lord, to change our selfish, little compromised, fearful and comfortable look. help us Lord, to change, to look at things, the world, life, with your gaze and from your eyes…
Author: Unknown
Author: Fr. Jürgen Ommerborn, SVD
Subject: Joseph Freinademetz Returns To His Parish Of St. Martin In Thurn, Steyl’s First Impression
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