A Daily Prayer
to
ST. JOSEPH the WORKER

 GLORIOUS Saint Joseph,
pattern of all who are devoted to toil,
obtain for me the grace to toil in the spirit of penance,
in order thereby to atone for my many sins;
to toil conscientiously,
putting devotion to duty before my own inclinations;
to labor with thankfulness and joy,
deeming it an honor to employ and to develop, by my labor,
the gifts I have received from Almighty God;
to work with order, peace, moderation, and patience,
without ever shrinking from weariness and difficulties;
to work above all with a pure intention
and with detachment from self,
having always before my eyes the hour of death
and the accounting which I must then render
of time ill spent, of talents unemployed, of good undone,
and of my empty pride in success,
which is so fatal to the work of God. 

All for Jesus, all through Mary, all in imitation of thee,
O patriarch Joseph! This shall be my motto in life and in death. Amen.

(An indulgence of 500 days.) Raccolta 478. *

"St. Joseph, Glory of Home Life,
Pray for us."
(300 days indulgence.)*

"St. Joseph, most faithful,
Pray for us."
(300 days indulgence.)* 

Nihil Obstat:

JOSEPH A. M. QUIGLEY, Censor Librorum

Imprimatur:

JOHN F. O'HARA. C.S.C., D.D.,
Archbishop of Philadelphia.

June. 1956.