Illustrious Patriarch
by VP
Posted on Wednesday December 30, 2020 at 12:00AM in Prayers
Illustrious Patriarch
O illustrious Patriarch St. Joseph, who
carried the Infant Jesus in thy blessed arms and who, during the space
of thirty years, lived in the most intimate familiarity with Him, take
under thy powerful protection those whom He has clothed with His
authority and honored with the dignity of His priesthood, whom He has
charged to continue His mission, to preach His Gospel, and to dispense
everywhere His graces and blessings.
Sustain them in their
fatigues and labors; console them in their pains; fortify them in their
combats; but above all, keep far from them all the evils of sin.
Obtain
for them the humility of St. John the Baptist, the faith of St. Peter,
the zeal and charity of St. Paul, the purity of St. John and the spirit
of prayer and recollection of which thou, my dear Saint, art the
model, so that, after having been on earth, the faithful dispensers of
the Mysteries of thy foster Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, they may in
Heaven receive the recompense promised to pastors according to the Heart
of God. Amen.
