30-day prayer to St. Joseph for a special intention!

Joseph always blessed and glorious, kind and loving father and available friend of all in pain! You are the good father and protector of orphans, the defender of the defenseless, the patron of the needy and pain. Look kindly at my request. My sins have drawn upon me the righteous displeasure of my God, and so I am surrounded by misery. To you, loving guardian of the Family of Nazareth, I ask for help and protection.

Listen, therefore, I beg you, with paternal concern, to my fervent prayers, and obtain for me the favors I ask for. I ask this for the infinite mercy of the eternal Son of God, who prompted him to take our nature and be born in this world of pain. I ask for the weariness and suffering you endured when you found no refuge in the Bethlehem inn for the holy Virgin, nor a home where the Son of God could be born. So, being rejected everywhere, you had to allow the Queen of Heaven to give birth to the Redeemer of the world in a cave.

I ask for the beauty and power of that sacred Name, Jesus, which you bestowed on the adorable child. I ask you with that painful torture you felt at the prophecy of the holy Simeon, who declared the Child Jesus. And let us not forget his holy Mother future victims of our sins and their great love for us. I ask you through your pain and the pain of the soul when the angel declared to you that the life of the Child Jesus was sought by his enemies. 

From their evil plan you had to flee with Him and His Blessed Mother to Egypt. I ask for it with all the suffering, tiredness and fatigue of that long and dangerous journey. I ask all your attentions to protect the Holy Child and His Immaculate Mother during your second journey, when you were ordered to return to your country. I ask you for your peaceful life in Nazareth, where you have encountered so many joys and sorrows.