30 Day Prayer to St. Joseph
(This prayer was taken from a leaflet provided by the Josephites
and may be said during any 30 days of the year.)
Thirty Days Prayer to St. Joseph (In honor of the 30 years Joseph
spent with Jesus and Mary)
(Note: This prayer was taken from a leaflet provided by the Josephites
and may be said during any 30 days of the year.)
Ever blessed and glorious Joseph, kind and loving father, and
helpful friend of all in sorrow! You are the good father and protector
of orphans, the defender of the defenseless, the patron of those
in need and sorrow. Look kindly on my request. My sins have drawn
down on me the just displeasure of my God, and so I am surrounded
with unhappiness. To you, loving guardian of the Family of Nazareth,
do I go for help and protection.
Listen, then, I beg you, with fatherly concern, to my earnest
prayers, and obtain for me the favors I ask.
I ask it by the infinite mercy of the eternal Son of God, which
moved Him to take our nature and to be born into this world of
sorrow.
I ask it by the weariness and suffering you endured when you
found no shelter at the inn of Bethlehem for the holy Virgin,
nor a house where the Son of God could be born. Then, being everywhere
refused, you had to allow the Queen of Heaven to give birth to
the world's Redeemer in a cave.
I ask it by the loveliness and power of that sacred Name, Jesus,
which you conferred on the adorable Infant.
I ask it by that painful torture you felt at the prophecy of
holy Simeon, which declared the Child Jesus and His holy Mother
future victims of our sins and of their great love for us.
I ask it through your sorrow and pain of soul when the angel
declared to you that the life of the Child Jesus was sought by
His enemies. From their evil plan you had to flee with Him and
His Blessed Mother to Egypt. I ask it by all the suffering, weariness,
and labors of that long and dangerous journey.
I ask it by all your care to protect the Sacred Child and His
Immaculate Mother during your second journey, when you were ordered
to return to your own country. I ask it by your peaceful life
in Nazareth where you met with so many joys and sorrows.
I ask it by your great distress when the adorable Child was lost
to you and His Mother for three days. I ask it by your joy at
finding Him in the Temple, and by the comfort you found at Nazareth,
while living in the company of the Child Jesus. I ask it by the
wonderful submission He showed in His obedience to you.
I ask it by the perfect love and conformity you showed in accepting
the Divine order to depart from this life, and from the company
of Jesus and Mary. I ask it by the joy which filled your soul,
when the Redeemer of the world, triumphant over death and hell,
entered into the possession of His kingdom and led you into it
with special honors.
I ask it through Mary's glorious Assumption, and through that
endless happiness you have with her in the presence of God.
O good father! I beg you, byall your sufferings, sorrows, and
joys, to hear me and obtain for me what I ask. (Here name your
petitions or think of them.)
Obtain for all those who have asked my prayers everything that
is useful to them in the plan of God. Finally, my dear patron
and father, be with me and all who are dear to me in our last
moments, that we may eternally sing the praises of JESUS, MARY
AND JOSEPH
" A blameless life, St. Joseph, may we lead, by your kind
patronage from danger freed."
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