San Giuseppe Moscati: today's devotion

16 November

SAINT GIUSEPPE MOSCATI

In Naples, St. Giuseppe Moscati, who, as a 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 cared at the same time with great also love souls. (Roman martyrology)

The liturgical memory of St. Joseph Moscati in the Martyrologium Romanum is April 12 but locally, since the day of birth in Heaven may fall in the days between the end of Lent and the Easter Octave, it has been set for November 16.

PRAYER TO SAN GIUSEPPE MOSCATI

O Saint Joseph Moscati, a distinguished doctor and scientist, who in the exercise of your profession cared for the body and spirit of your patients, look also at us who now resort to your intercession with faith.

Give us physical and spiritual health, interceding for us with the Lord. Relieves the pains of those who suffer, from comfort to the sick, consolation to the afflicted, hope to the disheartened. Young people find in you a model, workers an example, the elderly a comfort, the dying hope of the eternal reward.

Be for all of us a sure guide of industriousness, honesty and charity, so that we fulfill our duties in a Christian way, and give glory to God our Father. 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.

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 TO SAN GIUSEPPE MOSCATI TO ASK FOR A GRACE

Most lovable Jesus, who deigned to come to earth to heal the spiritual and bodily health of men and you were so grateful for St. Joseph Moscati, making him a doctor according to your Heart, distinguished in his art and zealous in apostolic love, and sanctifying him in your imitation with the exercise of this twofold, 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…. that I ask you, if it is for your greater glory and for the good of our souls. So be it.

Pater, Ave, Glory