Catholic novena
Unfailing Novena to St. Joseph
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Traditional St. Joseph prayer
Fisheaters devotional novena index, Unfailing Novena to St. Joseph. Web witness for this wording: https://www.fisheaters.com/novenas.html#joseph2. Exact pre-1962 English wording has not been verified in a printed edition.
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- A traditional nine-morning prayer to St. Joseph asking for prompt help, spiritual blessings, and peace at the hour of death.
- Often prayed for
- Powerful help, spiritual blessings, protection at death, and confident trust in St. Joseph's intercession.
- Length
- 9 days
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About This Novena
This well-loved St. Joseph prayer has an older warmth and confidence to it. It rests on Joseph's closeness to Jesus and asks him not only for help now, but for tenderness and protection at the final moment of life.
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Often prayed for families, fathers, workers, and impossible needs.
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Any time
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Opening Prayer
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O St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in you all my interest and desires.
O St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession, and obtain for me from your divine Son all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So that, having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers.
O St. Joseph, I never weary of contemplating you, and Jesus asleep in your arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart. Press Him close in my name and kiss His fine head for me and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath. St. Joseph, patron of departing souls, pray for me. Amen.
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A traditional nine-morning prayer to St. Joseph asking for prompt help, spiritual blessings, and peace at the hour of death.
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Description
This well-loved St. Joseph prayer has an older warmth and confidence to it. It rests on Joseph's closeness to Jesus and asks him not only for help now, but for tenderness and protection at the final moment of life.
Traditionally invoked as patron of
families, fathers, workers, impossible needs
Traditionally prayed for
Often prayed for families, fathers, workers, and impossible needs.
Usual timing
Any time
St. Joseph and the Child Jesus, Giambattista Pittoni