Novena to Saint Joseph {5}
Glorious Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful intercession to obtain, from the benign heart of Jesus, all the helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly for the grace of a happy death and this special favour we now request . . .
O Glorious Saint Joseph, through the love you bear to Jesus Christ and for the glory of His name, hear our prayers and obtain our petitions. Amen.
"I do not
remember even now that I have ever asked anything of him (Saint
Joseph) which he has failed to grant . . .To other saints the Lord
seems to have given grace to succour us in some of our necessities,
but of this glorious saint my experience is that he succours us in
them all..."
Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila, chapter 6.
(This novena is the first part of the rather longer novena number 3 shown in the novena index.)
