Month of March dedicated to the Devotion to Saint Joseph: prayer

Glorious Saint Joseph, look at us prostrate in your presence, with a heart full of joy because we count ourselves, although unworthy, in the number of your devotees. We wish today in a special way, to show you the gratitude that fills our souls for the favors and graces so signaled that we continually receive from You.

Thank you, beloved Saint Joseph, for the immense benefits that you have dispensed and constantly dispenses us. Thank you for all the good received and for the satisfaction of this happy day, since I am the father (or mother) of this family who wishes to be consecrated to you in a particular way. Take care, O glorious Patriarch, of all our needs and family responsibilities.

Everything, absolutely everything, we entrust to you. Animated by the many attentions received, and thinking of what our Mother Saint Teresa of Jesus said, that always while she lived you obtained the grace that on this day she begged you, we confidently dare to pray to you, to transform our hearts into volcanoes burning with truth love. That everything that comes close to them, or in some way relates to them, remains inflamed by this immense stake that is the Divine Heart of Jesus. Obtain for us the immense grace of living and dying of love.

Give us purity, humility of heart and chastity of body. Finally, you who know our needs and responsibilities better than we do, take care of them and welcome them under your patronage.

Increase our love and our devotion to the Blessed Virgin and lead us through her to Jesus, because in this way we advance confidently on the path that leads us to happy eternity. Amen.