St. Joseph the Worker Novena starts today

[Denise]

This novena traditionally begins April 22, so the novena ends on the eve of the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker.

Pray 9 Days

O God, the Creator of all things, You have laid the law of labor upon the human race. Grant, we beseech You, that by the example and protection of St. Joseph, we may perform the work You command and attain to the reward that You promise. Through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Prayer for Fidelity to Work
Glorious St. Joseph, model of all who are devoted to labor, obtain for me the grace to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my natural inclinations, to work with gratitude and joy, considering it an honor to employ and develop, by means of labor, the gifts received from God, disregarding difficulties and weariness; to work, above all with purity of intention and with detachment from self, having always before my eyes death and the account which I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God. All for Jesus, all for Mary, all after your example, patriarch Joseph. This will be my watchword in life and in death. Amen.

[MarieT]

St Joseph, terror of demons, pray for us