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St. Joseph Works

Ite ad JosephGo to Joseph. (Genesis 41:55)

Most of the work is not the idea.
We build the tools that carry the rest.

St. Joseph Works is a Catholic initiative that builds tools for inventors. Anyone who has tried to turn an idea into something real knows how much of the effort goes into things that have nothing to do with the idea itself. We want to take some of that weight off, so inventors can spend their time on what they were meant to create.

Our mission

Our mission is to encourage people to create projects that make the world better.

Whatever your task, work heartily, as serving the Lord and not men.
Colossians 3:23
The whole mission

What we do

We build open tools
Tools that make it easier to go from an idea to a working project. Open, so anyone can read them, use them and take them further.
We encourage the gifts
We encourage people to develop the gifts God has given them, and to see their projects through to the end.
We choose what serves
We give priority to projects that respect human dignity and serve the common good.

The tools

Under the care of Saint Joseph the Worker

He was a carpenter in Nazareth, the guardian of the Holy Family, and he taught his trade to the Son of God. Today the Church honors him as her Patron. His life shows that ordinary work, done well and offered to God, can become holy, and that is the kind of work we want to do.