Prayer to St. Joseph to Make Our Family a Family of Saints

[Flavia Talladen Schott]

Prayer to St. Joseph to Make Our Family a Family of Saints

Confident, humble and persevering prayer is infallible, as the Church teaches us. What better prayer to pray daily than a prayer to St. Joseph asking him to save all the members of our family so that we might be a family of saints in Heaven one day?

"Some Saints are privileged to extend to us their patronage with particular efficacy in certain needs, but not in others; but our holy patron St. Joseph has the power to assist us in all cases, in every necessity, in every undertaking."

 ~ St. Thomas Aquinas

 

PRAYER

Glorious Saint Joseph!

Thou to whom God confided the care

of the two Persons He most loved on earth,

forget not that we too have been entrusted to thy care.

Thou who art our protector and our father,

deign to take our interests into thy own hands,

but above all, watch over all that concerns our souls.

O Virtuous Guardian of the Holy Family,

by thy powerful intercession, make us a family of saints.

And since to merit thy favors we must strive to imitate thy virtues,

obtain for us all a sincere will to walk in thy footsteps

and to be like thee, full of love for Jesus and Mary,

and faithful to all our other duties.

Thou art too zealous of the glory of God and our salvation

to refuse to receive our prayers.

O Beloved Head of the Holy Family,

graciously hear us.

Amen.

Source: http://www.traditioninaction.org/religious/b008rpFamilyofSaints.htm

For protection of our families from all evil and harm of spirit, soul, and body;  for the observance and promotion of traditional Catholic culture and values all over the world; for protection and preservation of our properties and daily necessities of life; for conversions and for a more and more traditional Catholic society worlwide.

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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 favor 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 place 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 into 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, by all 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 be led, by your kind patronage from danger freed."

Amen. 

[Flavia Talladen Schott]

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