Daily Devotions to St. Joseph - Day 30

[Cathleen]

"Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of His faithful ones"  (Psalm 115:6).  After having faithfully served Jesus and Mary, St. Joseph reached the end of his life in the house at Nazareth.  There, surrounded by angels, assisted by Jesus Christ the King of the Angels, and by Mary, his spouse, who placed themselves at both sides of his poor bed, filled with the peace of paradise, he departed this miserable life.  Who shall ever be able to understand the sweetness, the consolation, the blessed hope, the acts of resignation, the flames of charity which the words of eternal life coming from alternately from the lips of Jesus and Mary, breathed into the soul of Joseph at the end of his life?

St. Joseph, grant me peace and resignation to God's will at the hour of my death.

[Gloria]

St. Joseph, grant me peace and resignation to God's will at the hour of my death.

St. Joseph, inflame me with the Love of Jesus and Mary.

[Gloria]

Saint Joseph,obtain for me the grace of a happy death.  Help me to spend each day in preparation for death.  May I, too, accept death in the spirit of resignation to God's Holy Will, and die,  as you did, in the arms of Jesus, strengthened by Holy Viaticum, and in the arms of Mary, with Mary's  rosary in my hand and Mary's name on my lips.

[Alley]

With love!