This Novena courtesy of The Josephites
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First Day 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 sorrow. Look kindly on my request. My sins have drawn down on me the just displeasure of my God, and so I am surrounded with unhappiness. To you, loving guardian of the Family of Nazareth, do I go for help and protection. Listen, then, I beg you, with fatherly concern, to my earnest prayers, and obtain for me the favors I ask.
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I ask it by the infinite mercy of the eternal Son of God,
which moved Him to take our nature and to be born into this
world of sorrow.
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I ask it by the weariness and suffering you endured when you found no
shelter at the inn of Bethlehem for the holy Virgin, nor a house where
the Son of God could be born. Then, being everywhere refused, you had
to allow the Queen of Heaven to give birth to the world's Redeemer in a
cave.
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I ask it by the Loveliness and power of that Sacred Name, Jesus, which you
conferred on the adorable infant.
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I ask it by that painful torture you felt at the prophecy of holy Simeon, which
declared the child Jesus and His holy Mother future victims of our sins and of
their great love for us.
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I ask it through your sorrow and pain of soul when the angel declared to you that
the life of the Child Jesus was sought by His enemies. From their evil plan you
had to flee with Him and His Blessed Mother to Egypt. I ask it by all the suffering,
weariness, and labors of that long and dangerous journey.
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I ask it by all your care to protect the Sacred Child and His Immaculate Mother
during your second journey, when you were ordered to return to your own country.
I ask it by your peaceful life in Nazareth where you met with so many joys and
sorrows.
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I ask it by your great distress when the adorable Child was lost to you and His Mother
for three days. I ask it by your joy at finding Him in the Temple, and by the
comfort you found at Nazareth, while living in the company of the Child Jesus. I
ask it by the wonderful submission He showed in His obedience to you.
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I ask it by the perfect love and conformity you showed in accepting the Divine
order to depart from this life, and from the company of Jesus and Mary. I ask it
by the joy which filled your soul, when the Redeemer of the world, triumphant
over death and hell, entered into the possession of His kingdom and led you into
it with special honors.
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I ask it through Mary's glorious Assumption, and through that endless
happiness you have with her in the presence of God.
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O good Father! I beg you, by all your sufferings, sorrows, and joys, to hear me and
obtain for me what I ask. Here name your petitions or think of them.)
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Obtain for all those who have asked my prayers everything that is useful to them
in the plan of God. Finally, my dear patron and father, be with me and all who are
dear to me in our last moments, that we may eternally sing the praises of
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With permission of: Very Rev. Robert M Kearns, SSJ Superior General NIHIL OBSTAT: Rev. Msgr. Carroll E. Satterfield Censor Librorum IMPRIMATUR: His Eminence William Cardinal Keeler Archbishop of Baltimore |
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