Pope Benedict

Catholic News Agency: "He told the crowd that St. Joseph's example presents all the faithful with 'a powerful invitation to perform the role that Providence has assigned us with faithfulness, simplicity and modesty.'

He particularly highlighted the role of 'fathers and mothers in families,' adding his prayers 'that they may always know how to appreciate the beauty of a simple and hard-working life, carefully cultivating their conjugal relationship and enthusiastically accomplishing the great, and by no means easy, mission of education.'"