I ask it by your peaceful life in Nazareth where you met with so many joys and sorrows. I ask it by all your care to protect the Sacred Child and His Immaculate Mother during your second journey, when you were ordered to return to your own country. I ask it by all the suffering, weariness, and labors of that long and dangerous journey. From their evil plan you had to flee with Him and His Blessed Mother to Egypt. I ask it through your sorrow and pain of soul when the angel declared to you that the life of the Child Jesus was sought by His enemies. I ask it by that painful torture you felt at the prophecy of holy Simeon, which declared the Child Jesus and His holy Mother future victims of our sins and of their great love for us.
I ask it by the loveliness and power of that sacred Name, Jesus, which you conferred on the adorable infant.
Then, being everywhere refused, you had to allow the Queen of Heaven to give birth to the world's Redeemer in a cave. I ask it by the weariness and suffering you endured when you found no shelter at the inn of Bethlehem for the holy Virgin, nor a house where the Son of God could be born. I ask it by the infinite mercy of the eternal Son of God, which moved Him to take our nature and to be born into this world of sorrow.
Listen, then, I beg you, with fatherly concern, to my earnest prayers, and obtain for me the favors I ask. To you, loving guardian of the Family of Nazareth, do I go for help and protection. My sins have drawn down on me the just displeasure of my God, and so I am surrounded with unhappiness. Ever blessed and glorious Joseph, kind and loving father, and helpful friend of all in sorrow! You are the good father and protector of orphans, the defender of the defenseless, the patron of those in need and sorrow.
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