Devotion to the Holy Family: complete collection of prayers
PRAYER TO THE HOLY FAMILY
Here we are prostrate before your majesty, Sacred Characters of the little house of Nazareth, we, in this humble place, contemplate the baseness in which you would like to live in this world among men. While admiring your sublime virtues, especially of continual prayer, humility, obedience, poverty, in contemplating such things, we are assured of not being rejected by you, but welcomed and embraced not only as your servants but as your beloved children.
Therefore, arise holy characters of the Family of David; blacken the sword of the fortress of God and come to our aid, so that we are not touched by the waters that flow from the dark abyss and which, with demonic vexation, attract us to follow the cursed sin. Hurry, then! defend us and save us. So be it. Pater, Ave, Gloria
Jesus Joseph and Mary give you my heart and soul.
Our Sacred Characters, who with your excellent virtues deserved to renew the face of the whole world, since it was full and dominated by the idolatrous yoke. Come back today too, so that with your merits, the earth will be washed again of so many heresies and errors, and all the poor sinners will convert heartily to God. Amen. Pater, Ave, Gloria
Jesus, Joseph and Mary, assist me in the last agony.
Our Sacred Characters, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, if by your virtue all the places where you lived remain consecrated, consecrate this too, so that whoever makes use of it may be heard, both spiritually and materially, as long as it is your will. Amen. Pater, -Ave, Gloria.
Jesus, Joseph and Mary, breathe my soul in peace with you.
PRAYER TO THE TRINITY OF THE EARTH
(Father Giuseppe Antonio Patrignani, from the "Devotee of San Giuseppe", 1707)
O Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Holy Family, Blessed Family: "above all the others blessed, small family, but very excellent", I will tell you with your devoted Saint Bonaventure.
I humbly come to you because you have been on earth a portrait of that invisible, eternal and divine Ternary of heaven. For this reason, whoever converses with Jesus, Mary and Joseph on earth has a sure guarantee of being later admitted to converse with the Father, and with the Son and with the Holy Spirit in heaven.
Therefore, let me never separate you from your most holy and sweet conversation; let me always be careful to imitate that heavenly life that you led together in the world. Always assist me in life, and much more at the hour of my death. Jesus, Joseph and Mary, always be in my company. Jesus, Joseph and Mary, assist me in my death. Amen.
PRAYER TO THE HOLY FAMILY
(Of the Confraternity of the Holy Hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph - Brazil, 1785)
Very united hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I place all my trust in you; govern and protect our family so that it does not fall today, tomorrow and always in any misfortune, in any error, in any sin, and in any insufficiency of useful work and supernatural charity.
Most holy heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Immaculate heart of Mary, pray for us. Pure heart of St. Joseph, pray for us.
PRAYER TO THE TRINITY OF THE EARTH
(Father F. Joanne de Carthagena, XNUMXth century)
Jesus, Mary and Joseph are an admirable Trinity, by means of which the intelligence, memory and will that fell into impotence, ignorance and concupiscence, enriched with faith, hope and charity rise to the sovereign Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
O merciful Trinity, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, without whom, never the fallen man, would have achieved the life and joy of the divine Trinity! I praise you, I venerate you, I glorify you, I invoke you from the deepest depths of my nothingness. Jesus, my Savior, Most Holy Mary, who are his Mother, Joseph, who supported Jesus and Mary!
Jesus opens above me the source of his graces, his life and his death full of merits.
Mary, full of grace, also drop a drop of this fullness above me. Joseph, the most just of all men, let me share in the fruit of his travails and his merits, and let Jesus, Mary and Joseph be all three, the rule, the measure of my thoughts, my works, my words, so that through them they may please the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
TO GET A THANK YOU
Full of trust and animated hope I come to you, O Holy Family, to implore the grace that I sigh so much. I enter your home in Nazareth, which is rich in all the heavenly treasures which the Son of God, the Mother of God, and the putative Father of Christ have accumulated in you. From the fullness of this house everyone can receive, the whole world can enrich it, without it being afraid of impoverishment. Come on then, great family, since you are so rich in every gift, since you have such a will to share favors, give me what I ask of you; I humbly ask you for the glory of God, for your greater honor, for my good and that of my neighbor. That does not start dejected from your feet! You who always welcomed those of Bethlehem, those of Egypt, and especially those of Nazareth with a hilarious face, welcome me also with the same kindness.
Of course you never denied thanks to those who resorted to you here on earth; and will you deny me the grace I implore now that you reign gloriously in heaven? I can't even imagine it; but I have a certain premonition that you will listen to me, indeed that you have already listened to me and have already granted me the desired grace. Three Pater, Ave, Gloria
Jesus, Joseph, Mary, I give you my heartb and my soul.
THANKS TO THE HOLY FAMILY
Blessed are you, O Most Holy Family, from the tongues of all the Angels, of all the Saints, of all men, from those present and from the future for the mercy you have used with me, granting me the much-desired grace. May your great and glorious names also sound for every part of the world, may the virgins, fathers, brides, mothers, young, old, people, clergy preach to you; the whole universe is a voice to give you due thanks. Why don't I have a hundred mouths and a hundred languages? Why can't I sit the hearts of all creatures to love you and make you love?
Why can't I see your full glorification accomplished in all the earth? Yes, oh Holy Family, as far as I know and can, I thank you, and in gratitude I offer you my poor heart: unite it in a holy knot to your pure hearts; bind me to you with an indissoluble bond whereby, with your three sacred names on my lips I live, with these three sacred names on my mouth I die, and these three sacred names I come to glorify eternally in heaven, to thus pass all the centuries in the endless thanksgiving to the divine Trinity, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, and to you most powerful Protectors Jesus, Mary, Joseph. So be it. Three Pater, Ave, Gloria.
PRAYER TO THE HOLY FAMILY IN FRONT OF THE SS. SACRAMENT
O Holy Family, while Jesus Ostia fills me with his graces, his mercies and inebriates me with his ends of love, I am here at your santissi-mi feet humbly prostrate, to ask you the grace to assist me in all dangers and to always defend myself from the assaults that my spiritual enemies, demon, world and flesh, will continually give me to lose me eternally. Up to now you have always watched over my soul, it is true; but at this moment, o Holy Family, I feel the extraordinary need for special protection. Do, I implore you, that I always live as a true son consecrated to the Holy Family. Yes, Holy Family, I promise you to always serve yourselves with the greatest possible fidelity and perfection, to observe the commitments of my consecration, especially the virtues of purity, poverty and obedience to God and the Church. I will always place my glory and my happiness in making you serve and love also from others; I will often come before your sacred image, to ask for strength to remain constant in the practice of virtues and in the exact observance of consecration. Behold, O Holy Family, my resolutions; deign to bless them and corroborate them with your goodness, and bless copiously also my unworthy person, who is now gathered here before the divine Sacrament, to assure me of the grace of fororal perseverance and thus enjoy a distinct glory in the sky, where I will be given, with the Angels, with the Saints and with my loved ones, to sing your praises for all eternity. Amen.
INVOCATIONS TO THE HOLY FAMILY
1. O Holy Family, who in the motle del Natle appeared to comfort the world and delight in heaven, bless us, accompany us, help us
2. O Holy Family, whom you were cheered by the angelic melodies, bless us, accompany us, help us
3. O Holy Family, who welcomed benevolently the shepherds and the Magi who came to the Crib, bless us, accompany us, help us
4. O Holy Family, transfixed by Simeon's prophecy, bless us, accompany us, help us
5. O Holy Family, who escaped from the wrath of the perfidious Herod, bless us, accompany us, help us
6. O Holy Family, who sanctified the exile to consolation of us children of Eve, bless us, accompany us, help us
7. O Holy Family, who upon entering Egypt saw idols fall to the ground, bless us, accompany us, help us
8. O Holy Family, who with examples and advice illuminated the blind idolaters, bless us, accompany us, help us
9. O Holy Family, who promptly returned to Nazareth in the Angel's warning, bless us, accompany us, help us
10. O Holy Family, who in the journey were defended by the heavenly Spirits, bless us, accompany us, help us
11. O Holy Family, who stopped your permanent stay in Nazareth, bless us, accompany us, help us
12. O Holy Family, who offered you life for the living and the deceased, bless us, accompany us, help us
13. O Holy Family, model of perfect harmony in domestic conversation, bless us, accompany us, help us
14. O Holy Family, abyss of hiding and humility, bless us, accompany us, help us
15. O Holy Family, prodigy of revelation in tribulations, bless us, accompany us, help us
16. O Holy Family, admirable prototype of the fulfillment of civil and religious duties, bless us, accompany us, help us
17. O Holy Family, first source of the Spirit of Christianity, bless us, accompany us, help us
18. O Holy Family, the summit of Christian perfection, bless us, accompany us, help us
19. O Holy Family, specimen and shield of religious families, bless us, accompany us, help us
20. O Holy Family, patroness and teacher of Christian families, bless us, accompany us, help us
21. O Holy Family, tower of defense of the Catholic Religion, bless us, accompany us, help us
22. O Holy Family, anchor of safety for the Supreme Head of the Church, bless us, accompany us, help us
23. O Holy Family, ark of salvation for troubled humanity, bless us, accompany us, help us
24. O Holy Family, a pledge of protection for the clergy, bless us, accompany us, help us
25. O Holy Family, pride, protection and life of our humble society, bless us, accompany us, help us
26. O Holy Family, peace, hope and salvation for those who invoke you, bless us, accompany us, help us
27. O Holy Family, our help in life and our support in death, bless us, accompany us, help us
28. O Holy Family, united on earth and united in heaven, bless us, accompany us, help us
29. O Holy Family, dispenser of all temporal and spiritual favors, bless us, accompany us, help us
30. O Holy Family, terror of the evil spirits of the abyss, bless us, accompany us, help us
31. O Holy Family, joy and delight of the Saints, bless us, accompany us, help us
32. O Holy Family, show of admiration to the Angels, bless us, accompany us, help us
33. O Holy Family, object of divine complacency, bless us, accompany us, help us
Act of Eternal Father offer, we offer you the blood, passion and death of Jesus Christ, the pains of Mary Most Holy and St. Joseph, in discount of our sins, in suffrage of the holy souls of Purgatory, for the needs of the Holy Mother Church , and for the conversion of sinners. Amen.
BLESSING FORMULAS
Bless us with all the saints and blessed angels, Jesus, Mary and Joseph; in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen (Quebec, 1675).
“The Holy Family bless you in soul and body, bless you in time and eternity (Blessed Giuseppe Nascimbeni).
O BLESSED FAMILY
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Holy Family, Blessed Family, I humbly venerate you because you have been on earth the visible portrait of that invisible and Trinity of heaven. Let me never get away from your sweet conversation, but try to imitate that heavenly life that you led together in the world, so that by conversing with Jesus, Mary and Joseph here on earth, he will be made worthy to converse with the Father , the Son and the Holy Spirit in heaven. Amen.
GREETING TO THE HOLY FAMILY
(Imprimatur, Mons. Paolo Gillet, Rome, 6 July 1993)
Ave, or Family of Nazareth, Jesus, Mary and Joseph. You are blessed by God and blessed is the Son of God who was born in you, Jesus.
Holy Family of Nazareth: we dedicate ourselves to you, guide, support and protect our families in love. Amen.
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Jesus, Mary, Joseph!
Jesus, Mary, Joseph, guard the faithful and servants of the Holy Family alive in death Jesus, Joseph and Mary, enlighten us, help us, save us. So be it.
Bless us, Jesus, Joseph and Mary, now and in the hour of our agony. Jesus, Joseph and Mary, free my soul from sin.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, make my heart look like yours.
Jesus, Joseph and Mary make sure that we live a holy life, and that it is always protected by your help.
PRAYERS TO THE HOLY FAMILY FOR THE NEEDS OF THE CHURCH
O august family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, turn pityously from heaven the glances of your pity on the Catholic Church which is currently experiencing a storm so long and furious that it is reflected in past ages.
O Holy Characters, if you do not notice in our aid, how will we be able to rise from the deep abyss in which we have fallen? O Jesus, are you not the helmsman Master who guides the great ship? So awake from your sleep: command the winds, and you will enjoy a great tranquility. O Mary, you are the Queen of the Church, and you have always had the office of defending her: therefore she defeats all the infernal phalanxes and reconnects her in the abra-so; o Immaculate, make the strength of the virginal foot feel the dragon of the abyss, and trample on the superb cervix; or triumph over all heresies, the world looks forward to the great victory from you.
O Joseph, and aren't you also the most powerful patron of the Catholic faith? And can your heart suffer more from seeing it so opposed? You who saved Jesus from the hands of Herod, save the Church from new persecutors; you who sent the frauds of a powerful person to waste, to throw away the frauds of all the powers, connected against Christianity.
O Jesus, or Mary, or Joseph, come, it is time, come to the aid of the Church, and crown it with a triumph so glorious that it is proportionate to the very proud persecution it endures. Pater, Ave, Gloria.
PRAYER TO THE HOLY FAMILY FOR THE SOULS OF THE PURGATORY
1. From the deep abysses of the earth, listen, O Holy Family, to the painful cries that the purging souls send to heaven. O Jesus, they are your brides, or Mary, they are your daughters, or Joseph, they are your protected, give them eternal peace. The eternal rest ...
2. From all over the earth, O Santis-sima family, the prayers of the pious souls are raised, who are interested in the liberation of the prisoner spirits of Purgatory.
Look, O Jesus, Mary, Joseph, how much these righteous people suffered, how many penances they willingly meet to meet the debts of the poor ones, how generously they made a donation to them of all the satisfactory works. Accept the heroism of these victims of Christian charity, and soon open the doors of that painful prison. The eternal rest ..
3. From your sacred house in Nazareth, or Jesus, or Mary, or Joseph, what a great perfume rises to heaven to implore freedom for the poor slaves of Purgatory! As long as you lived, he offered you, perpetual victims for the living and the dead. Your prayers, your sacrifices in mortal life embraced all times and all souls.
Therefore apply the treasure of your merits to the spirits in the Purgatory, show yourself quickly to them and lead all those prisoners with you to sing the eternal hymn of thanksgiving. The eternal rest ...
4. Accept, O most holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the full and total donation we make to you of all our satisfactory works in favor of the deceased poor. We want to perform this act of charity with the same intentions that you had by living, and with the same intentions that you have now in heaven. Hurry eternal rest to those desolate souls, and let them sing with joyful voices: "We have all rejoiced at the announcement that the Holy Family has brought us: We will go to the House of the Lord".
The eternal rest ...
5. For that sweet sweetness and ineffable amiability, with which you, O Most Holy Family, received the shepherds of Bethlehem and the people of Nazareth and even the unfaithful Egyptians; for those tender words and sweet manners with which you consoled every afflicted soul, which resorted to you, we beg you to want to comfort the purging souls equally. Above all, lift up, O Jesus, the most devoted souls of your Heart; o Mary, the most devoted souls of your sorrows; o Joseph, the most confident souls in your patronage: also raise the souls for whom we are most obliged to pray; those of relatives, friends, benefactors; the most forgotten, most tormented, and most appreciated to you. The eternal rest ...
PRAYER TO THE HOLY FAMILY
(Blessed José Manyanet)
May the Holy Trinity of the earth be praised and blessed, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, now and always.
Forever and ever. Amen.
Holy, holy, holy we proclaim you, most amiable Holy Family.
Glory to Jesus, Son of the Eternal Father; glory to Mary, Mother of the divine Son; glory to Joseph, husband of the Queen of Heaven.
GREETING TO THE HOLY FAMILY
Blessed Holy Family, be blessed a thousand times, because with your glory rejoice the infinite Majesty. To you, enchanting beauty, crying my mistakes and my ancient deviations, I give my heart. Look at me with compassion and do not abandon me, my beloved!
PRAYER TO THE HOLY FAMILY
- Jesus, Mary, Joseph are in my heart and in my soul
- replies by repeating 10 times: Glory to Jesus, Mary and Joseph, who are in my heart and soul. Amen.