Gertrude Walters Sullivan, who was a wise, smart, thoughtful and sometimes tough minded woman, had a phrase that occurred to me awhile back. She would be commenting on someone and would add that so and so “is someone who knows Joseph.” I don’t know where this came from, ie was it a phrase she learned from someone else or not, but the meaning was clear: someone who knew Joseph, as in St Joseph I think, was humble, genuine, what we might now refer to as “the real deal”. An admirable individual who did not blow his or her own her horn, operated behind the scenes, a real support, steady. This speaks a lot about some of her values for which many of us are forever grateful.