- NINE
prayers for a NOVENA
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1.-To
ask the
virtue of humility:
Our
Father, that have given a humble heart to those you have selected
for doing your will, we ask you that Saint Joseph, our friend, help us
to open our heart so your love flood us and banish all pride and
arrogance
so we can better fulfill your will. We ask this through Jesus Christ,
our
Lord. Amen.
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2.-For
fiances, fiancees and those who want to marry:
O
God, that in your huge love for us has given us your Son Jesus Christ,
who dying and resuscitating gave us new life, we ask you, by the
mediation
of Saint Joseph, to take care and protect all fiances,
fiancees
and those who want to marry. Give us a heart in love that seeks to
surrender
itself to You more intensely each day. You, who live and reign now and
forever. Amen
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3.-For families:
O God,
that wanted to reveal in Saint Joseph how we must be united to Jesus,
your
Son and to Mary, our Mother, we ask you by the mediation of this Sacred
Family to eliminate from us all seed of doubt and mistrust; that in the
bosom of our families grow the quest for unity, that make
close those set
apart,
that reunite
those that have gone to your celestial home where some day we want to
find
ourselves together as a family around the table in your Kingdom. Thou,
who live and reign now and forever. Amen
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4.- To
say "yes" to
God:
Father,
in the words of your gospel you showed us how you chose Saint Joseph to
be the adoptive father of your Son and husband of Mary, we ask
you
to give us a heart that sustained by your Word and Love, could say
"yes"
every day: in work, studies and home and so walk safely to your
encounter,
with your Son Jesus, with Saint Joseph, with Mary and all Saints. We
ask
this through Christ our Lord. Amen
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5.-To
ask for the virtue of hope:
Father,
hear the prayer we raise to you, through our friend Saint Joseph, who
knew
how to walk with his heart full of hope and so his example prod us to
be
God's pilgrims, with the same hope that filled St. Joseph heart and so
should a fear or doubt assault us we would go to your Love that never
abandon
the weak persons we are nor those that invoke You from their soul. We
ask
this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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6.-For parents:
God,
Father of humankind, in your kindness has chosen Saint Joseph as
adoptive
father of your Son, here on earth, by his mediation hear the prayers
that
our hearts raise to you, we that have received the gift of being
parents.
Let us be always good in your sight. Listen specially to those that
have
difficulties in being dignified parents so they change their ways, to
those
that can not generate life so they never lose hope; to divorced couples
so they come together again. Do not forget those parents (my
father,
mother, parents) that already live in your Kingdom so
that
one day all together, led by your Spirit of Love we could sing your
glory
as Children of God in your home in Heaven. We ask this through Jesus
Christ
our Lord. Amen.
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7.-For workers:
Lord,
Creator of all things that has trusted to humankind your creation to be
toiled and made to give fruits we ask, by mediation of Saint Joseph
that
tasted the value of human work, on behalf of all workers in the world
so
they appreciate and love their work. We ask your blessings to the
unemployed
so they have always your help; to the retired people that have given
their
life working so they could receive a fair reward for their efforts; to
all us so, filled by your Love, find the strength to keep working in
the
building of your Kingdom. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
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8.-To
have a generous heart:
O Jesus,
that moved by your large love did not want to leave us alone, but has
became
one of us and that by your Spirit of Love walk with us and speak to our
heart, we ask you that, as Saint Joseph, we get a generous heart that
know
to listen to you in silence, be strong in suffering, give praise in
happy
times and love you in solitude so when we are in your presence with
empty
hands you fill them with your blessings until we reach the supreme
good:
Eternal Life. You who live and reign with God the Father now and
forever.
Amen.
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9.-To
ask for confidence
and spiritual happiness:
O Father,
that seeing the fall of humankind sent your Son to save us from death
and
sin that chained us we ask, by mediation of Saint Joseph, that
following
in his steps we live far away of selfishness and full of confidence and
happiness could celebrate together the gift of faith and so walk toward
the Eternal Feast. We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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- First day: Saint
Joseph, to you I come to ask you to intercede before the Sacred Heart
of
Jesus to grant me the grace of..., for your esteemed mediation I
will be eternally grateful. (Glory to the Father, and the Son,
and
the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and will be
forever.
Amen.)
- Second day: Remember,
Saint Joseph, that nobody in the world, even the worst sinner has been
left hopeless when has deposited his faith and hope in you; on the
contrary
the graces and favors you grant to distressed people shine and excel.
Stand
generous and mighty with me, too, and so I will say: "Praise the
adoptive
father of Jesus forever!" (Glory...)
- Third day: Sublime
head of the Sacred Family, I venerate you deeply and from my heart I
invoke
you. Deign to console with your help my pained soul that find no rest
in
its distress. Saint Joseph, comforter of those grieving have mercy on
my
pain. (Glory...)