Novena to St. Joseph (Begins March 10)

Begins March 10th, 300 days’ indulgence each day of it.

O glorious descendent 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 shalt ever be, after Jesus and Mary, the object of my most profound veneration and tender confidence. Thou art the most hidden, though the greatest saint! and thou art peculiarly the patron of those who serve God with the greatest purity and fervour. In union with all those who have been most devoted to thee, I now dedicate myself to thy service, beseeching thee for the sake of Jesus Christ, who vouchsafed to obey thee as a son, to become father to me, and to obtain for me, and for all my fellow-Christians, the filial respect, confidence, and love of children towards thee. O most powerful advocate of all Christians, whose intercession, as St. Teresa assures us, has never been found to fail, deign to intercede for me now, and implore for me the particular object of this novena. N. N. Present me, O great saint! to the most 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 may enkindle in my heart, and in all hearts, the fire of His holy love, and infuse into it 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 protection of the Mother of God. Amen.