OCTOBER PRAYER TO SAINT JOSEPH

(TO BE SAID AFTER THE RECITATION OF THE HOLY ROSARY IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER) 

To you, O blessed Joseph, 

we have recourses in our tribulations,

and while imploring the aid of your most holy spouse,

we confidently invoke your patronage also.

By that love, 

which united you to the Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God,

and by the fatherly affection, 

with which you did embrace the child Jesus,

we humbly beseech you graciously,

to regard the inheritance,

which Jesus Christ purchased by His precious blood,

and to help us in our necessities.

By your powerful intercession,

protect, O most provident guardian of the Holy Family,

the chosen Children of Jesus Christ;

ward off from us, O most loving Father,

all taints of error and corruption:

graciously assist us from heaven, 

O most powerful protector,

in our struggle with the powers of darkness,

as you did once rescued the child Jesus from imminent peril to his life.

So now, defend the Holy Church of God,

from the snares of her enemies, and from all adversities.

Shield each one of us,

with your unceasing patronage,

so that imitating your example and supported by your aid,

we may be enabled to lead a good life,

die a holy death,

and secure an everlasting happiness in heaven.

Amen.