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Work and daily duties

These are existing library selections. A shared theme does not mean every prayer was written for a particular saint.

Prayer Before Any Good Work

A traditional prayer from the library.

Novena to St. Joseph

For family care, work, purity, protection, and a holy death.

Novena to St. Thomas More

For prudence, diligence, wisdom, courage, and faithful perseverance.

St. Cajetan Novena

For employment, provision, just work, and courage in financial uncertainty.

St. Joseph the Worker Novena

For employment, dignity in labor, provision, holiness in daily work, and final perseverance.

St. Homobonus Novena

For honest work, integrity in business, charity toward the poor, and holiness in ordinary duties.

St. Isidore the Farmer Novena

For daily work, agriculture, humility, providence, and a fruitful interior life.

St. Benedict

Benedict's reading joins prayer and daily work. Offer your own work to God.

St. Antony Claret

Antony's tireless service invites us to offer our own work to God.

St. Alphonsus Rodriguez

Alphonsus's ordinary duties became a place of holiness. Offer your own work to God.

St. Homobonus

Homobonus's ordinary work invites us to offer our own duties to God.

Why did God make you?

Read question 150 and its complete answer.

What little prayers may we say even at work?

Baltimore Catechism, question 1119.

What should one do who is obliged to work on a holyday of obligation?

Baltimore Catechism, question 1336.

Why is it a work of mercy to pray for the living and the dead?

Baltimore Catechism, question 818.