Guardian of the Holy Family
Novena to St. Joseph
A traditional Catholic novena to St. Joseph for families, fathers, and workers. Traditionally prayed March 10 through March 18.
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About This Novena
St. Joseph has long been loved in Catholic life as the hidden guardian of the Holy Family, the just man who obeyed God in silence, labor, purity, and trust. This novena turns to him as protector, father, provider, and patron of a holy death, asking him to shape the soul in the quiet virtues that marked his own life.
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for families, fathers, workers, and a happy death.
Usual timing
March 10 through March 18
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Daily Prayer
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O glorious descendant of the kings of Judah, Inheritor of the virtues of all the patriarchs. Just and happy St. Joseph, listen to my prayer. Thou art my glorious protector, and shall ever be, after Jesus and Mary the object of my most profound veneration and confidence. Thou art the most hidden, though the greatest Saint, and art particularly the patron of those who serve God with the greatest purity and fervor. In union with all those who have ever been most devoted to thee I now dedicate myself to thy service; beseeching thee, for the sake of Jesus Christ, who vouchsafed to love and obey thee as a son, to become a father to me; and to obtain for me the filial respect, confidence and love of a child towards thee.
O powerful advocate of all Christians, whose intercession, as St. Theresa assures us, has never been found to fail, deign to intercede for me now, and to implore for me the particular intention of this Novena.
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Present me O great Saint to the adorable Trinity, with Whom thou hadst so glorious and so intimate a correspondence. Obtain that I may never efface by sin the Sacred Image according to the likeness of which, I was created. Beg for me that my divine Redeemer would enkindle in my heart and in all hearts, the fire of His Love, and infuse therein the virtues of His adorable infancy, His purity, simplicity, obedience, and humility.
Obtain for me likewise a lively devotion to thy virgin spouse, and protect me so powerfully in life and death, that I may have the happiness of dying as thou didst, in the friendship of my Creator, and under the immediate protection of the Mother of God. Amen.
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About this novena
Description
St. Joseph has long been loved in Catholic life as the hidden guardian of the Holy Family, the just man who obeyed God in silence, labor, purity, and trust. This novena turns to him as protector, father, provider, and patron of a holy death, asking him to shape the soul in the quiet virtues that marked his own life.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
families, fathers, workers, a happy death
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for families, fathers, workers, and a happy death.
Usual timing
March 10 through March 18
St. Joseph and the Child Jesus, Giambattista Pittoni