St. Joseph: everything to do to have a grace in the family

Da Paolo Tessione - March 15, 2023

St. Joseph grace in the family the provident guardian of the Holy Family. We can entrust all our families to him, with the greatest certainty of being satisfied in all our needs. He is the just and faithful man (Mt 1,19:XNUMX) whom God has placed as the guardian of his house, as the guide and support of Jesus and Mary: all the more will he protect our families, if we entrust them to him and invoke him from the heart. .

"Any grace asked of St. Joseph will certainly be granted, whoever wants to believe will try to persuade himself", claimed St. Teresa of Avila. “I took the glorious s for my lawyer and patron. Giuseppe and I recommended myself to him with fervor. This my father and protector helped me in the needs in which I was and in many other more serious ones, in which my honor and the health of the soul were at stake. I saw that his help was always greater than I could have hoped for ... "(see chapter VI of the Autobiography).

Difficult to doubt it, if we think that among all the saints the humble carpenter of Nazareth is the one closest to Jesus and Mary: he was on earth, even more so in heaven. Because Jesus was the father, albeit an adoptive one, and Mary was the spouse. The graces that are obtained from God are truly numberless, turning to Saint Joseph. Universal patron of the Church at the behest of Pope Pius IX, he is also known as the patron saint of workers as well as of the dying and purging souls, but his patronage extends to all needs, comes to all requests. He is certainly the worthy and powerful protector of every Christian family, as he was of the Holy Family.

St. Joseph grace in the family

The Supreme Pontiff Pius IX with the Rescript of the Secretariat of the Briefs, in June 1855 granted to all the faithful who will dedicate the entire month of March in honor of the glorious Patriarch St. Joseph: 300 days of indulgence on each day of the month and the Plenary in a day at will, in which truly repentant, confessed and communicated will pray according to the mind of His Holiness. The said Indulgences are granted by the same Pontiff also to those who, legitimately impeded in the month of March, will dedicate any other month in honor of the Holy Patriarch himself.

CONSECRATION OF THE FAMILY IN SAN GIUSEPPE

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.