# St. Joseph of Cupertino (September 18) — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year

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Published: 2026-09-17T20:03:00+00:00
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A meditation for the Feast of the St. Joseph of Cupertino, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume V of the Time after Pentecost.St. Joseph of Cupertino was an Italian Franciscan friar renowned for his profound humility, simplicity, and extraordinary mystical graces. Born in Cupertino in 1603, he endured poverty and difficulties in his youth before eventually being received into the Conventual Franciscan Order. He became particularly famous for his frequent ecstasies and miraculous levitations, especially when contemplating sacred subjects, and was sometimes unable to remain on the ground during Mass or other acts of devotion. Despite these extraordinary phenomena, St. Joseph considered himself a poor and unworthy sinner and sought to obey his superiors with great humility. He had a special devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Eucharist, and his life was marked by prayer, penance, charity, and a childlike trust in God. He died in Osimo in 1663 and was canonized by Pope Clement XIII in 1767. He is traditionally invoked by students, particularly those facing examinations, because of the difficulties he himself experienced in his studies.Please note that Servant of God Dom Prosper Guéranger went to his eternal reward in 1875; at this point, Volumes I-IX (Advent to Pentecost Saturday) had been completed, but Volumes X-XV (Trinity Sunday to Advent) had not yet been completed. Thus, the remaining readings of the Liturgical Year, from Trinity Sunday until Advent, were not directly authored by Dom Prosper, but were the work of his disciple Dom Lucien Fromage. Dom Prosper Guéranger's The Liturgical Year, a monumental fifteen-volume work, offers a comprehensive exploration of the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar, guiding readers through the spiritual…

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