Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of being the Patron of the Church.
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Help me to share, as you did, the perfect obedience of Jesus, who came not to do His Will, but the Will of His Father to trust in the Providence of God, knowing that if I do His Will, He will provide for all my needs of soul and body to be calm in my trials and to leave it to our Lord to free me from them when it pleases Him to do so.Īnd help me to imitate your generosity, for there can be no greater reward here on earth than the joy and honor of being a faithful servant of God. As a token of your gratitude to God, obtain for me the grace to be a faithful servant of God as you were. Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of being God’s faithful servant. Help me to give myself entirely to His service and the accomplishment of His Holy Will, that one day I may reach heaven and be eternally united to God as you are. As a token of your gratitude to God, obtain for me the grace to imitate your virtues so that I too may be pleasing to the Heart of God. Saint Joseph, I thank God for having made you the man specially chosen by Him. As a token of your gratitude to God, obtain for me the grace to love Jesus with all my heart, as you did, and love Mary with some of the tenderness and loyalty with which you loved her.
Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of being the virginal husband of Mary. Grant that through your intercession with Jesus, your foster-Son, I may reach the degree of holiness God has destined for me, and save my soul. Help me to serve Him with some of the self-sacrificing love and devotion which you had while on this earth with Him. As a token of your gratitude to God for this your greatest privilege, obtain for me the grace of very devoted love for Jesus Christ, my God, and my Savior. Saint Joseph, I thank God for your privilege of having been chosen by God to be the foster-father of His Divine Son. Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus 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: Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary. Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. 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. Therefore, I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belongs to me, to your intercession. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you. Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child, greet you. Fearns S.T.D., and IMPRIMATUR: Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop, New York.īible quotes are from the New Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition) of the Bible.Read this Introductory Prayer before the corresponding day
Sheridan, D.D., Vicar General, Archdiocese of New York. Josef Ignaz Mildorfer painted this lively depiction of Pentecost in 1782.Īll of the prayers for this novena are from one book, The Treasury of Novenas, New Jersey: Catholic Book Publishing Corp., 1986-2004, pp.238-242. The date of this masterpiece is circa 1627. One of my favourite paintings by Guido Reni depicts The Virgin at Prayer. Heinrich Hofmann painted Jesus during a conversation with the rich, young ruler in 1889. In 1896, Friedrich Wutschl created a warm Holy Family scene with Jesus learning the carpentry trade from St. Saint Joseph lovingly hands the Infant Jesus to His Mother in this captivating painting by Bartolome Esteban Murillo circa 1660. He painted it circa 1668 to 1670.īartolome Esteban Murillo painted Saint Joseph with the Infant Saviour circa the 17th Century. We made circular cut-outs from the original image.Īmong his many paintings of the Holy Family by Bartolome Esteban Murillo, we were happy to choose this one as our featured image.
Raphael painted The Sistine Madonna circa (1513-1514). Cropped portions of it are the background for the footer Bible quote. It is our exclusive trademark logo image.Ī beautifully photographed sky by Donald Tong inspired the website’s colour scheme. The LOGO image of Our Lady of Grace is original artwork by Martin Lariviere, 2009, and used with the artist’s permission (my son).
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