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Encyclopedia > Prayer to Saint Joseph

The following Prayers to Saint Joseph are Catholic prayers to Saint Joseph. Prayer is an effort to communicate with God, or to some deity or deities, or another form of spiritual entity, or otherwise, either to offer praise, to make a request, or simply to express ones thoughts and emotions. ... Saint Joseph, also referred to as Joseph the Betrothed and as Joseph of Nazareth, was the father (according to the law) of Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 1:16; Luke 3:23) and the husband of Mary. ...


Prayer for intercession for spiritual blessings

Oh, Saint Joseph,
whose protection is so great, so prompt, so strong,
before the throne of God,
I place in you all my interests and desires.
Oh, Saint Joseph,
do assist me by your powerful intercession,
and obtain for me from your Divine Son
all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
So that, having engaged here below your heavenly power,
I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most Loving of Fathers.
Oh, Saint Joseph,
I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms;
I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart.
Press Him in my name and ask him to return the Kiss
when I draw my dying breath.
Saint Joseph, Patron of departed souls – pray for me.
Amen.


Prayer for intercession for a specific favour

O Great Saint Joseph
whose influence over the hearts of Jesus and Mary is all powerful,
and who hast never been invoked in vain.
I ask, with the most firm and lively confidence,
the speedy granting of my request, that …
Dear Saint Joseph,
obtain for me the object of my prayer,
if it be for the glory of God and my own salvation;
but if it is not,
then obtain for me the grace
lovingly to resign myself to the Will of my heavenly Father,
who, in the afflictions He permits,
as well as in the temporal favours He grants me,
has in view only my happiness here and my salvation in Eternity.
Amen.


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Saint Joseph Novena (2312 words)
But Joseph presided over the events of Christ's Infancy, provided for Him the house that sheltered Him from birth to baptism, and was of all the men of earth the one at whose hands Jesus received most in service and love and unselfish devotion.
Joseph was destined to immortal honors of the Church, yet no spoken word of his is recorded in the Scriptures.
Joseph guides the hands that guided the course of the stars; he teaches the maker of sun, stars, and planets the craft of making tables and chairs for peasants and yokes for oxen.
Novena to St. Joseph (4946 words)
Saint Joseph, you were privileged to share in the mystery of the Incarnation as the foster-father of Jesus.
Saint Joseph, God has appointed you patron of the Catholic Church because you were the head of the Holy Family, the starting-point of the Church.
Saint Joseph, how fitting it was that at the hour of your death Jesus should stand at your bedside with Mary, the sweetness and hope of all mankind.
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