Prayer to ask the grace of healing to San Giuseppe Moscati
PRAYER TO SAN GIUSEPPE MOSCATI
TO ASK FOR A THANK YOU
Most lovable Jesus, whom you deigned to come to earth to heal
the spiritual and bodily health of men and you were so wide
of thanks for San Giuseppe Moscati, making him a second doctor
your Heart, distinguished in its art and zealous in apostolic love,
and sanctifying it in your imitation by exercising this double,
loving charity towards your neighbor, I earnestly beg you
to want to glorify your servant on earth in the glory of the saints,
granting me grace…. I ask you, if it's for yours
greater glory and for the good of our souls. So be it.
Pater, Ave, Glory
PRAYER FOR YOUR HEALING
O holy and compassionate doctor, S. Giuseppe Moscati, no one knows my anxiety more than you in these moments of suffering. With your intercession, support me in enduring the pain, enlighten the doctors who treat me, make the drugs they prescribe me effective. Grant that soon, healed in body and serene in spirit, I can resume my work and give joy to those who live with me. Amen.
PRAYER FOR A SERIOUS SICK
Many times I have turned to you, O holy doctor, and you have come to meet me. Now I beg you with sincere affection, because the favor I ask of you requires your particular intervention (name) is in serious condition and medical science can do very little. You yourself said, "What can men do? What can they oppose to the laws of life? Here is the need for refuge in God ». You, who have healed so many diseases and have helped many people, accept my pleas and obtain from the Lord to see my wishes fulfilled. Also grant me to accept the holy will of God and a great faith to accept the divine dispositions. Amen.
San Giuseppe Moscati: THE HOLY DOCTOR
San Giuseppe Moscati (Benevento, 25 July 1880 - Naples, 12 April 1927) was an Italian doctor; he was beatified by Pope Paul VI during the Holy Year 1975 and canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1987. He was called "doctor of the poor".
The Moscati family came from Santa Lucia di Serino, a town in the province of Avellino; here was born, in 1836, the father Francesco who, graduated in law, during his career was judge at the Cassino court, President of the Court of Benevento, Councilor of the Court of Appeal, first in Ancona and then in Naples. In Cassino, Francesco met and married Rosa De Luca, of the Marquis of Roseto, with a rite celebrated by Abbot Luigi Tosti; they had nine children, of whom Joseph was the seventh.
The family moved from Cassino to Benevento in 1877 following the appointment of their father as president of the Benevento court, and stayed for a first period in Via San Diodato, near the Fatebenefratelli hospital, and later moved to Via Porta Aura. On July 25, 1880, at one in the morning, in the Rotondi Andreotti Leo palace, Giuseppe Maria Carlo Alfonso Moscati was born, who received baptism in the same place, six days after his birth (July 31), by Don Innocenzo Maio.
Birth certificate of San Giuseppe Moscati, found in the register of Birth Records of the year 1880, preserved in the Civil Status Archive of the Municipality of Benevento
Meanwhile, the father, promoted in 1881 as a councilor of the Court of Appeal, moved with his family to Ancona, from which he left again in 1884, when he was transferred to the Court of Appeal of Naples, where he settled with his family in Via S.Teresa at Museum, 83. Later the Moscati lived in Port'Alba, Piazza Dante and finally in Via Cisterna dell'Olio, 10.
On December 8, 1888, "Peppino" (as he was called and as he will love to sign himself in personal correspondence) received his first communion in the Church of the Ancelle del Sacro Cuore, in which the Moscati often met Blessed Bartolo Longo, founder of the Shrine of Pompeii . Next to the church lived Caterina Volpicelli, later Santa, to whom the family was spiritually linked.
In 1889, Giuseppe enrolled in the gymnasium at the Vittorio Emanuele Institute in Piazza Dante, showing interest in studying from a young age, and in 1897 he obtained the "high school diploma".
In 1892, he began to assist his brother Alberto, seriously injured by a fall from a horse during military service and remained subject to epilepsy attacks, with frequent and violent convulsions; to this painful experience it has been hypothesized that his first passion for medicine was due. Indeed, after his high school studies he enrolled in 1897 in the Faculty of Medicine, according to the biographer Marini with a view to considering the doctor's activity as a priesthood. The father died at the end of the same year, suffering from cerebral hemorrhage.
On March 3, 1900, Giuseppe received confirmation from Monsignor Pasquale de Siena, auxiliary bishop of Naples.
On April 12, 1927, after attending Mass and receiving Communion in the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli and having carried out his work in the hospital and in his private practice as usual, around 15 pm he felt bad, and died on his armchair . He was 46 years and 8 months old.
News of his death spread quickly, and there was significant popular participation in the funeral. On 16 November 1930 his remains were moved from the Poggioreale cemetery to the Gesu Nuovo church, enclosed in a bronze urn, by the sculptor Amedeo Garufi.
Pope Paul VI proclaimed him blessed on November 16, 1975. He was proclaimed a saint on October 25, 1987 by John Paul II.
His liturgical feast was celebrated on November 16th; the Martirologio Romano of 2001 instead reported it to the dies natalis of April 12: “In Naples, St. Giuseppe Moscati, who, doctor, never failed in his daily and tireless service of assistance to the sick, for which he did not ask for any compensation to the poorest, and in taking care of the bodies he also cared for the souls with great love.