AD TE, BEATE IOSEPH

Written by Pope Leo XIII, a partial indulgence is attached to this prayer.

To you, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our tribulation, and having implored the help of your most holy spouse, we
confidently invoke your patronage also. Through that charity which bound you to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God and
through the paternal love with which you embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly beg you graciously to regard the inheritance
which Jesus Christ has purchased by his Blood, and with your power and strength to aid us in our necessities.

O most watchful Guardian of the Holy Family, defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ; O most loving father, ward off
from us every contagion of error and corrupting influence; O our most mighty protector, be kind to us and from heaven assist us in our struggle with the power of darkness.

 

As once you rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God’s Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity; shield, too, each one of us by your constant protection, so that, supported by your example and your aid, we may be able to live piously, to die in holiness, and to obtain eternal happiness in heaven. Amen.
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Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.