JOSEPH, AN OBEDIENT FATHER | WORD AND SONGS

St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, we bless the Lord for your intimate communication with him during his infancy and youth at Bethlehem, in Egypt, and at Nazareth. You loved him with a father’s love and he loved you with the love of a son. Your faith made you adore in him the Incarnate Son of God, while he obeyed you, served you, listened to you. You held pleasant conversations with him, shared work, great sufferings and most tender consolations. Obtain for us the grace never to offend Jesus by sin. Pray for us that we may always receive the sacraments of the Holy Eucharist and Reconciliation fittingly, attain to a great intimacy with and a tender and strong love for Jesus while on earth, and possess him forever in heaven.

St. Joseph, Foster Father of the Son of God, pray for us

St. Joseph, Spouse of the Mother of God, pray for us

St. Joseph, Head of the Holy Family, pray for us

St. Joseph, most obedient, pray for us. Amen.