What is +JMJ ?

+JMJ

Greetings!

A week or so ago I was writing in my spiritual journal and my wife was spying over my shoulder for a bit. She noticed at the top of my entry the initials +JMJ and saw that it was at the top of every entry on those noticable pages. She asked the question, "What is that?" Maybe you will too as you see it at the top of every entry here.

+JMJ stands for Jesus, Mary, Joseph. One of my all-time favourite saints is St. Maria Faustina Kawoslka of Poland. She is most noted for the devotion to the Divine Mercy. She was a Polish Nun who dies in the 1930's and had many visions of our Lord and he commissioned her as the "Apostle of Divine Mercy". She always used this +JMJ before most of her entries.

Also, being the good Irishmen that I am, I love to watch the old re-runs of the 1950's and 1960's programs hosted by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. If you have ever seen the programs on EWTN you have seen him use this ascription as well.

Also, I have a small statue of Jesus (Infant of Prague), Mary (Our Lady of Grace), and St. Joseph on the top of my computer screen. These remind me of their intercessions and giudance.

Jesus, Mary, Joseph - true models of family and spirituality!

Jesus, Mary, Joseph
ora pro nobis.

+ Mason