Traditional Catholic Novena
Holy Cloak of St. Joseph Novena 30 Days
Prayed for fathers, workers, protection, perseverance, and a happy death through a thirty-day Joseph devotion.
St. Joseph is traditionally invoked as patron of husbands and fathers, the Universal Church, workers, employment, immigrants, a happy death.
St. Joseph and the Child Jesus, Giambattista Pittoni
Pray This Novena
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Begin the novena now, move one day at a time, and come back here whenever you are ready for the next day.
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Day 1 of 30
The same principal prayer is used each day. Choose the day you are on, pray the main prayer below, and mark the day complete when you finish.
Private intention
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Day 1
Pray the principal prayer below for this day of the novena.
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Prayer for Each Day of the 30-Day Holy Cloak Devotion
Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, we give you our hearts and our souls.
Repeated prayer cue
Pray the Glory Be 3 times in thanksgiving to God for having exalted St. Joseph to a position of such exceptional dignity.
Offering
O Glorious Patriarch St. Joseph, we humbly prostrate ourselves before you. We beg the Lord Jesus, your Immaculate Spouse the Blessed Virgin Mary, and all the Angels and Saints in the Heavenly Court to join us in this devotion.
We offer you this precious cloak while pledging our sincerest faith and devotion. We promise to do all in our power to honor you throughout our lifetime to prove our love for you.
Help us, St. Joseph. Assist us now and throughout our lifetimes, but especially at the moment of our deaths, as you were assisted by Jesus and Mary, that we may join you one day in Heaven and there honor you for all eternity. Amen.
O Glorious Patriarch St. Joseph, prostrate before you and your Divine Son Jesus, we offer you with heartfelt devotion this precious treasury of prayers, being ever mindful of the numerous virtues which adorned your sacred person.
In you, O Glorious Patriarch, was fulfilled the dream of your precursor the first Joseph, who indeed seemed to have been sent by God to prepare the way for your presence on this earth.
In fact, not only were you surrounded by the shining splendor of the rays of the Divine Sun, Jesus, but you were splendidly reflected in the brilliant light of the mystic moon, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
O Glorious Patriarch, if the example of the ancient Jacob, who personally went to congratulate his favorite son, who was exalted on the throne of Egypt, served to bring all his progeny there, should not the example of Jesus and Mary, who honored you with their greatest respect and trust, serve to bring us, your devoted servants, to present you with this precious cloak in your honor.
Grant, O great St. Joseph, that the Almighty God may turn a benevolent glance toward us.
As the ancient Joseph did not reject his guilty and cruel brothers, but rather accepted them with love and protected and saved them from hunger and death, we beseech you, O Glorious Patriarch, through your intercession, never abandon us in our trials.
Keep us always among the number of your devoted servants and under the protection of your holy cloak, all the days of our lives, particularly at the hour of our death.
Amen.
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