Saint Joseph, strengthen in our family every bond of love which unites us the marriage bond, the love of parent and child, the bonds of mutual love between all.
Joseph, protect our family from every danger from without and from every threat to peace, unity and harmony within.
Joseph, teach us to be kind and loving towards one another, careful for one another, tolerant of one another, forgiving towards one another.
Joseph, may contentment with our lot and joy in each other abound in our house, as we seek faithfully to serve and greatly to love God.
Joseph, be you yourself a father towards the family of ours, and pray Mary be a mother to us.
Amen
St. Teresa’s Devotion to St. Joseph:
St. Theresa of Avila attributed her miraculous cure to Saint Joseph.
St. Theresa once suggested famously that although we may have access to many saints as intercessors for our various needs, we should “go especially to Joseph, for he has great power with God.” In praying this litany of St. Joseph we are indeed going to the patron saint and “protector” of the Universal Church!
“I took for my advocate and lord the glorious Saint Joseph and commended myself earnestly to him; and I found that this my father and lord delivered me both from this trouble and also from other and greater troubles concerning my honor and the loss of my soul, and that he gave me greater blessings than I could ask of him.
I do not remember even now that I have ever asked anything of him which he has failed to grant. I am astonished at the great favors which God has bestowed on me through this blessed saint, and at the perils from which He has freed me, both in body and in soul.
To other saints the Lord seems to have given grace to succor us in some of our necessities but of this glorious saint my experience is that he succors us in them all and that the Lord wishes to teach us that as He was Himself subject to him on earth (for, being His guardian and being called His father, he could command Him) just so in Heaven He still does all that he asks.
This has also been the experience of other persons whom I have advised to commend themselves to him; and even to-day there are many who have great devotion to him through having newly experienced this truth.”
“I wish I could persuade everyone to be devoted to this glorious saint, for I have great experience of the blessings which he can obtain from God. I have never known anyone to be truly devoted to him and render him particular services who did not notably advance in virtue, for he gives very real help to souls who commend themselves to him. For some years now, I think, I have made some request of him every year on his festival and I have always had it granted.
If my petition is in any way ill directed, he directs it aright for my greater good.”
St Gemma Galgani Prayerhttps://t.co/Cwexcb6pvg
— Vatican Site (@vatican_site) May 14, 2017
Dear St Joseph, I am asking your intercession on 2 fronts, one for the saving of my marriage and rekindling of our love, and for the speedy recovery of Glen Nigrel, my cousin’s husband who has had a horrific accident and is in need of help. Please intercede with God for us all. I will forever be devoted in prayer to you. Amen.
ST Joseph, I prayer for the healing of my marriage and the recovery of my cousin’s husband and the spirituality of my children Alex and Ruth, my wife Jenny and all my family. Please intercede with God to grant this my earnest petition.
St Joseph I pray for your intercession and God’s will be done.
Dear St Joseph I beesech thee to intercede with the Lord Jesus for my requests for Jenny, Glen, Derek, Ruth, and Alex, the whole family, for their spiritual faith and conversion, for family unity and love and unity in God’s love. Also a special prayer for Glen, for his urgent and speedy recovery
St Jospeh, God’s will was done when he took Glen to his heavenly abode. I pray humbly for his will for my petition for my family members spiritual fiath to be renewed so that we can live in God’s love.