St Joseph Novena (short version)
St. Joseph Novena
Saint Joseph, you are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. You know that I have confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I come to you as an example for holiness, for you are especially close to God. Therefore, I humbly commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession.
I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death.
Glorious St. Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, pray for me to have a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine will. Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
Loving St. Joseph, faithful follower of Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore:
(mention your request)
Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers on my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God.
Day 1: St. Joseph most just...pray for us
Day 2: St. Joseph most prudent...pray for us
Day 3: St. Joseph most loving...pray for us
Day 4: St. Joseph most strong...pray for us
Day 5: St. Joseph most obedient...pray for us
Day 6: St. Joseph most faithful...pray for us
Day 7: St. Joseph pillar of families...pray for us
Day 8: St Joseph patron of the dying...pray for us.
Day 9: St. Joseph terror of demons...pray for us.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.
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******This beautiful prayer was composed by Blessed Pope John XXIII (1958-63). It places all workers under the patronage of Saint Joseph the Worker, and asks for his intercession so that we may regard our work as a means of growing in holiness.
A Prayer for Workers
O glorious Joseph! Who concealed your incomparable and regal dignity of custodian of Jesus and of the Virgin Mary under the humble appearance of a craftsman and provided for them with your work, protect with loving power your sons - and daughters - especially entrusted to you.
You know their anxieties and sufferings, because you yourself experienced them at the side of Jesus and of His Mother. Do not allow them, oppressed by so many worries, to forget the purpose for which they were created by God. Do not allow the seeds of distrust to take hold of their immortal souls. Remind all the workers that in the fields, in factories, in mines, and in scientific laboratories, they are not working, rejoicing, or suffering alone, but at their side is Jesus, with Mary, His Mother and ours, to sustain them, to dry the sweat of their brow, giving value to their toil. Teach them to turn work into a very high instrument of sanctification as you did. Amen.
(For more information on this prayer see: http://catholicism.about.com/od/prayers/qt/Prayer_Workers.htm)
My Own Prayer to St. Joseph:
Dear Saint Joseph,
You protected the Holy Family and Guided them in all that they did. You served as an inspiration to Jesus, and you protected Our Lady. Please guide and protect us as you did them. Help our families to grow in holiness. You toiled and cared for your family; may we be enabled to do the same and be filled with God's love and grace. We ask that you watch over the church and continue to bless her, and all of her works and ministries. We ask that you continue to protect her, and while the church is holy, we ask that you continue to aid her in her growth of holiness, constantly purifying her, as Christ sees fit, through your intercession. Please continue to watch over our universal family - the church - in all that she is. Amen.
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