God gave you a heart filled with heavenly, supernatural love - a love far deeper and more powerful than any natural father’s love could be. You served the Divine Child with a singular love. Whatever a human son owes to a human father for all the benefits of his up-bringing and support, Jesus owed to you, because you were to Him a foster-father, teacher, and protector. Then on your arms the Child returned to Nazareth to be nourished and provided for during many years by the labor of your hands. Your fatherly love carried Him through the desert into Egypt until all enemies were removed. It was that fatherly love which was the only refuge that received and protected the Divine Child. When Herod sought the Child to put Him to death, the Heavenly Father sent an angel but only as a messenger, giving orders for the flight the rest He left entirely in your hands. You were truly the saint of the holy childhood of Jesus - the living created providence which watched over the Christ-Child. With the toil of your hands you were obliged to offer protection to the Divine Child, to procure for Him food, clothing, and a home.
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For this purpose the Heavenly Father gave you a genuine heart of a father - a heart full of love and self-sacrifice. In a more direct manner you shared in the support, upbringing, and protection of the Divine Child as His foster-father. You made the virginal marriage possible, and this was a part of God’s plan, foreseen, willed, and decreed from all eternity. You had a part in this mystery in an indirect manner, by fulfilling the condition necessary for the Incarnation - the protection of Mary’s virginity before and during your married life with her. Mary alone was directly connected with the fulfillment of the mystery, in that she gave her consent to Christ’s conception and allowed the Holy Spirit to form the sacred humanity of Jesus from her blood. Saint Joseph, you were privileged to share in the mystery of the Incarnation as the foster-father of Jesus. Guardian of the Word Incarnate, I feel confident that your prayers in my behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. Loving Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, I raise my heart to you to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the Divine Heart of Jesus all the graces necessary for my spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly the grace of a happy death, and the special grace I now implore: Be my guide, my father, and my model through life that I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus and Mary. Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the Immaculate Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. I beg of you, by your love for Jesus and Mary, not to abandon me during life and to assist me at the hour of my death. Therefore I humbly invoke you and commend myself, with all who are dear to me and all that belong to me, to your intercession. You know that I have special confidence in you and that, after Jesus and Mary, I place all my hope of salvation in you, for you are especially powerful with God and will never abandon your faithful servants. You are the faithful protector and intercessor of all who love and venerate you.
Saint Joseph, I, your unworthy child, greet you. *(prayer to be said at the end of each day’s devotion) I have all the prayers for the 9 Day Novena Crusade to St Joseph posted below. You can also add your own private intentions to our 9 Day Novena Crusade to St Joseph , or pray this entirely on your own as a 9 Day Novena to St Joseph. We are in REALLY DARK TIMES folks, and I mean REALLY DARK! If you don’t know this then please pray that God truly opens your eyes! Our only hope is in Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! We have the opportunity to join in prayer for 9 days starting on March 10 until the Feast of St Joseph on March 19th ,which also happens to be my late father’s birthday. Please join us in praying a 9 Day Novena Crusade to St Joseph starting on MARCH 10! I am proposing that we join together in prayer, like in the past during our Rosary Crusades, to pray for the Catholic Church, the Bishops, an end to abortion, and for global peace. 9 Day Novena Crusade to St Joseph – Canadian Catechist Toggle Navigation
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