General Prayers

(A thirty day prayer that can be said to St. Joseph on any 30 days of the year.) Ever blessed and glorious Joseph, kind and loving father, and helpful friend of all in sorrow! You are the good father and protector of orphans, the defender of the defenseless, the patron of those in need and […]

Father Joseph, you taught Jesus how to work and play, help us to realise that we can only gain knowledge by listening and learning. With you to help and guide us we pray, O Saint Joseph, that we will choose the right path and will remain faithful to the teachings of Jesus. Amen.

Blessed Joseph, you both saved and served the Word of God, and the Living Bread come down from heaven. Look down upon the priests of the Church, which had its origins in the household over which you presided, and pray for them that they, too, serve perseveringly the people entrusted to their care. May priests

Blessed Saint Joseph, your intercession can make possible impossible things come to help me in these moments of anguish and hardship. Take under your protection the difficult and grave situations I commend to you, so they have a happy solution according to God’s will. My beloved father: I trust you entirely and abandon myself as

Blessed Joseph, husband of Mary, be with us this day. You protected and cherished the Virgin; loving the Child Jesus as your Son, you rescued Him from the danger of death. Defend the Church, the household of God, purchased by the Blood of Christ. Guardian of the Holy Family, be with us in our trials.

Glorious St. Joseph, behold I choose thee today for my special patron in life and at the hour of my death. Preserve and increase in me the spirit of prayer and fervoUr in the service of God. Remove far from me every kind of sin; obtain for me that my death may not come upon

Great St. Joseph, you were chosen by God to be the reputed father of Jesus, the chaste husband of Mary ever-Virgin, and head of the Holy Family; you were elected by the Vicar of Christ to be the heavenly Patron and Protector of the Church founded by Jesus Christ. With the greatest confidence, therefore, I

Father and protector of chastity, glorious Saint Joseph, in whose faithful custody was entrusted the very Innocence, Jesus Christ and the Virgin of virgins, Mary; for this twofold and most loved token, Jesus and Mary, I pray and plead you to help me always to purely serve Jesus and Mary with an uncontaminated soul, pure

O most holy Virgin Mary, always present before the most holy Trinity, to whom it is granted at all times to pray for us to your most blessed Son, pray for me in all my needs. Help me, defend me, give thanks for me, and obtain for me the pardon of all my sins and

Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spirit, and may not shrink from giving our lives