Date:   2/4/2006 12:45:37 AM ( 18 y ago)
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We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses who offer our prayer as incense before God's throne. Request the intercession of Saint Joseph, chosen by the Father as Jesus Christ's foster-father, for all our intentions and your own special needs.

30 DAY PRAYER REQUESTING ST. JOSEPH'S INTERCESSION

Ever blessed and glorious Saint 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 our requests.

Our sins have drawn down on us the just displeasure of our God, and so we are surrounded with unhappiness. To you, loving guardian of the Family of Nazareth, do we go for help and protection. Listen, then, we beg you, with fatherly concern, to our earnest prayers, and obtain for us the favors we ask.

We 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. We 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. +

We 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 their great love for us. We 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. We ask it by all the suffering, weariness, and labors of that long and dangerous journey.

We 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. We ask it by your peaceful life in Nazareth where you met with so many joys and sorrows. We ask it by your great distress when the adorable Child was lost to you and His Mother for three days. We 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. We ask it by the wonderful submission He showed in His obedience to you. We 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.

We 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. We ask it through the Virgin Mary's glorious Assumption, and through that endless happiness you have with her in the presence of God. O good father! We beg you, by all your sufferings, sorrows, joys and exaltations, to hear us, and obtain for us what we ask:

(PETITIONS)

Obtain for all those who have asked for or are in need of our prayers, all that is useful to them in the plan of God. Finally, O dear patron and father, be with us and all who are dear to us in those last moments, that we may eternally offer thanks to and sing the praises of the Father, of Christ Jesus, and of the Holy Spirit, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and you, Saint Joseph. AMEN
 

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