Pray boldly: St. Joseph Novena in his Jubilee year – Day 2
Pray boldly: St. Joseph Novena in his Jubilee year – Day 2
March 11 - The Barothal
March 11 - The Barothal
In this year of St. Joseph, let us give special attention to the novena in preparation for his feast. We pray boldly, because as Padre Pio says:
"I do not remember having asked anything from St. Joseph, without having obtained it readily."
Today, we consider St. Joseph as “lover of poverty” and "model of workers."
Lover of poverty
Before oneself, everyone knows well that, as much as one does one’s best, he or she remains radically incomplete and vulnerable. There is no trick to cover up this vulnerability. Each of us is vulnerable inside. ... how trying life is if one does not accept one’s limitations!
Jesus Christ tells us: Being poor is an opportunity for grace ... We are given the right to be poor in spirit because this is the path to the Kingdom of God. ...
We do not have to transform ourselves to become poor in spirit. We do not have to undergo any transformation because we already are! We are poor ... or more clearly, we are “wretched” in spirit! We are in need of everything. We are all poor in spirit, we are beggars. It is the human condition. ...
[T]here is a poverty that we have to accept, that of being alive, and a poverty that instead we have to seek, the practical one, in the things of this world, in order to be free and to be able to love. We should always seek freedom of the heart, the freedom that has its roots in our own poverty.
~ Pope Francis in general audience of Feb. 5, 2020, on "Blessed are the poor in spirit"
Model of workers
Saint Joseph was a carpenter who earned an honest living to provide for his family. From him, Jesus learned the value, the dignity and the joy of what it means to eat bread that is the fruit of one’s own labour. ...
Work is a means of participating in the work of salvation, an opportunity to hasten the coming of the Kingdom, to develop our talents and abilities, and to put them at the service of society and fraternal communion. It becomes an opportunity for the fulfilment not only of oneself, but also of that primary cell of society, which is the family. ...
Working persons, whatever their job may be, are cooperating with God himself, and in some way become creators of the world around us. ...
Saint Joseph’s work reminds us that God himself, in becoming man, did not disdain work.
~ Pope Francis in Patris Corde.
Novena prayers
Novena prayers
The prayer Pope Francis prays:
Glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, whose power makes the impossible possible, come to my aid in these times of anguish and difficulty. Take under your protection the serious and troubling situations that I commend to you, that they may have a happy outcome.
My beloved father, all my trust is in you. Let it not be said that I invoked you in vain, and since you can do everything with Jesus and Mary, show me that your goodness is as great as your power. Amen.
(State your request here...)
Another special prayer:
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.
O Glorious St. Joseph, faithful follower
of Jesus Christ, to you do we
raise our hearts and hands,/ to implore
your powerful intercession in obtaining
from the benign Heart of Jesus/ all the
helps and graces necessary for our spiritual
and temporal welfare,/ particularly
the grace of a happy death,/ and the special
favor we now implore.
O guardian of the Word Incarnate,/
we feel filled with confidence/ that your
prayers on our behalf/ will be graciously
heard before the throne of God./
O Glorious St. Joseph,/ through the
love you bear to Jesus Christ,/ and for
the glory of His name,/ hear our prayers
and obtain our petitions. (Repeat 7times)
Let us pray
O Glorious St. Joseph,/ spouse of the
Immaculate Virgin,/ obtain for us a
pure,/ humble, and charitable mind,/ and
perfect resignation to the divine Will./
Be our guide, father and model through
life,/ that we may merit to die as you
did,/ in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
DAY TWO
O blessed Saint Joseph,
tenderhearted father,
faithful guardian of Jesus,
chaste spouse of the Mother of God,
we pray and beseech you to offer to God the Father,
His divine son,
bathed in blood on the Cross for sinners,
and through the thrice holy name of Jesus
obtain for us of the eternal Father
the favor for which we implore your intercession...
(State your request here...)
Amid the splendors of eternity,
forget not the sorrows of those who pray,
those who weep;
stay the almighty arm which smites us,
that by your prayers and those of your most holy spouse,
the Heart of Jesus may be moved to pity and to pardon.
Amen
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
As the Solemnity of Saint Joseph approaches, we recall Saint Joseph's obedience to the angel.
"When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home" (Mt 1:24).
A brief period of silence is observed.
V. I delight to do your will, my God;
R. your law is in my inner being!
Concluding Prayer
Concluding Prayer
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer,
Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
To you God entrusted his only Son;
in you Mary placed her trust;
with you Christ became man.
Blessed Joseph, to us too,
show yourself a father
and guide us in the path of life.
Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage,
and defend us from every evil. Amen.
O Foster-father of the Son of God, obtain for us through your divine Son
the grace of obedience to the will of the Father.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Pray boldly: St. Joseph Novena in his Jubilee year – Day 3
Pray boldly: St. Joseph Novena in his Jubilee year – Day 3
March 12 - The Announciation to Joseph
March 12 - The Announciation to Joseph
Novena prayers
Novena prayers
The prayer Pope Francis prays:
Glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, whose power makes the impossible possible, come to my aid in these times of anguish and difficulty. Take under your protection the serious and troubling situations that I commend to you, that they may have a happy outcome.
My beloved father, all my trust is in you. Let it not be said that I invoked you in vain, and since you can do everything with Jesus and Mary, show me that your goodness is as great as your power. Amen.
List your intentions here.
Another special prayer:
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.
O Glorious St. Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, to you do we raise our hearts and hands, to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the benign Heart of Jesus all the helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special favor we now implore.
O guardian of the Word Incarnate, we feel filled with confidence that your prayers on our behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God.
O Glorious St. Joseph, through the love you bear to Jesus Christ, and for the glory of His name, hear our prayers and obtain our petitions. (Repeat 7times)
Let us pray O Glorious St. Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for us a pure, humble, and charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be our guide, father and model through life, that we may merit to die as you did, in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
DAY THREE
Blessed St. Joseph, enkindle in our cold hearts a spark of your charity.
May God be always the first and only object of our affections.
Keep our souls always in sanctifying grace and, if we should be so unhappy as to lose it, give us the strength to recover it immediately by a sincere repentance.
Help us to such a love of our God as will always keep us united to Him.
Amen.
O glorious St. Joseph, through the love you bear to Jesus Christ and for the glory of His name, hear our prayers and obtain our petitions.
(State your request here...)
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
As the Solemnity of Saint Joseph approaches, we recall Saint Joseph's obedience to the angel.
"When Joseph awoke, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took his wife into his home" (Mt 1:24).
A brief period of silence is observed.
V. I delight to do your will, my God;
R. your law is in my inner being!
Concluding Prayer
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer,Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.To you God entrusted his only Son;in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man.
Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life.
Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen.
O Foster-father of the Son of God, obtain for us through your divine Son the grace of obedience to the will of the Father.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
Pray boldly: St. Joseph Novena in his Jubilee year – Day 4
Pray boldly: St. Joseph Novena in his Jubilee year – Day 4
March 13 - The Nativity
March 13 - The Nativity
Novena prayers
Novena prayers
The prayer Pope Francis prays:
Glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, whose power makes the impossible possible, come to my aid in these times of anguish and difficulty. Take under your protection the serious and troubling situations that I commend to you, that they may have a happy outcome.
My beloved father, all my trust is in you. Let it not be said that I invoked you in vain, and since you can do everything with Jesus and Mary, show me that your goodness is as great as your power. Amen.
List your intentions here.
Another special prayer:
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.
O Glorious St. Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, to you do we raise our hearts and hands, to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the benign Heart of Jesus all the helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special favor we now implore.
O guardian of the Word Incarnate, we feel filled with confidence that your prayers on our behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God.
O Glorious St. Joseph, through the love you bear to Jesus Christ, and for the glory of His name, hear our prayers and obtain our petitions. (Repeat 7times)
Let us pray O Glorious St. Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for us a pure, humble, and charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be our guide, father and model through life, that we may merit to die as you did, in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
DAY FOUR
Saint Joseph, pride of Heaven, unfailing hope for our lives, and support of those on earth, graciously accept our prayer of praise.
You were appointed spouse of the chaste Virgin by the Creator of the world.
He willed that you be called "father" of the Word and serve as agent of our salvation.
May the triune God who bestowed upon you heavenly honors, be praised forever.
And may He grant us through your merits the joy of a blessed life
and a favorable answer to our petition.
(State your request here...)
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
As the Solemnity of Saint Joseph approaches, we recall the birth of our Savior, whom Joseph and Mary are the first to adore.
"So they went in haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child" (Lk 2:16-17).
A brief period of silence is observed.
V. The LORD has made his victory known;
R. has revealed his triumph in the sight of the nations.
Concluding Prayer
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man.
Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life.
Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen.
O Watchful Defender of Christ, obtain for us through your divine Son the grace of adoration.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
https://aleteia.org/2021/03/11/pray-boldly-st-joseph-novena-in-his-jubilee-year-day-2/
https://ascensionpress.com/pages/novena-to-st-joseph
https://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/prayers/novena-for-the-solemnity-of-saint-joseph#tab--march-11-%E2%80%93-the-betrothal
Pray boldly: St. Joseph Novena in his Jubilee year – Day 5
Pray boldly: St. Joseph Novena in his Jubilee year – Day 5
March 14 - The Naming
March 14 - The Naming
Novena prayers
Novena prayers
The prayer Pope Francis prays:
Glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph, whose power makes the impossible possible, come to my aid in these times of anguish and difficulty. Take under your protection the serious and troubling situations that I commend to you, that they may have a happy outcome.
My beloved father, all my trust is in you. Let it not be said that I invoked you in vain, and since you can do everything with Jesus and Mary, show me that your goodness is as great as your power. Amen.
List your intentions here.
Another special prayer:
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.
O Glorious St. Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, to you do we raise our hearts and hands, to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the benign Heart of Jesus all the helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special favor we now implore.
O guardian of the Word Incarnate, we feel filled with confidence that your prayers on our behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God.
O Glorious St. Joseph, through the love you bear to Jesus Christ, and for the glory of His name, hear our prayers and obtain our petitions. (Repeat 7times)
Let us pray O Glorious St. Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for us a pure, humble, and charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be our guide, father and model through life, that we may merit to die as you did, in the arms of Jesus and Mary.
DAY FIVE
O holy St. Joseph, what a lesson your life is for us, ever so eager to appear so anxious to display before the eyes of men the graces that we owe entirely to the liberality of God.
In addition to the special favor for which we plead in this novena...
(State your request here...)
grant that we may attribute to God the glory of all things, that we may love the humble and hidden life, that we may not desire any other position than the one given us by Providence and that we may always be a docile instrument in the hands of God.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
As the Solemnity of Saint Joseph approaches, we recall the service of authority which Saint Joseph carries out in the Holy Family.
"When eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he was conceived in the womb" (Lk 2:21).
A brief period of silence is observed.
V. You have given him rule over the works of your hands,
R. put all things at his feet.
Concluding Prayer
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her trust; with you Christ became man.
Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself a father and guide us in the path of life.
Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen.
O Head of the Holy Family, obtain for us through your divine Son
the grace to accept God's upward calling in Christ Jesus.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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