2023 Novena to St. Joseph
March 9, 2023
This year, because the Feast of St. Joseph falls on a Sunday, the feast day is moved to Monday, March 20th. Novenas can be started on March 11th to end on the traditional March 19th date. Or, on March 12th to end on the moved feast on March 20th. The choice is yours!
Though thou hast recourse to many saints as thine intercessors, go specially to St. Joseph, for he has great power with God.”
St. Teresa of Avila
Spiritual Maxims #65
Pray Daily
Glorious Saint Joseph, faithful follower of Jesus Christ, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful intercession to obtain, from the benign heart of Jesus, all the helps and graces necessary for our spiritual and temporal welfare, particularly for the grace of a happy death and this special favor we now request . . . O guardian of the Word Incarnate, we feel animated with confidence that your prayers on our behalf will be graciously heard before the throne of God. O Glorious Saint Joseph, through the love you bear to Jesus Christ and for the glory of His name, hear our prayers and obtain our petitions . . . Amen.
Novena Day 1
O great St. Joseph, with feelings of unlimited confidence, we beg you to bless this novena that we begin in your honor. “You are never invoked in vain” says the seraphic St. Theresa of Jesus. Be you then to me what you have been to that spouse of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and graciously hear me as you did her . . . Amen. Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Novena Day 2
O Blessed Saint Joseph, tender-hearted father, faithful guardian of Jesus, chaste spouse of the Mother of God, we pray and beseech you to offer to God the Father, His divine son, bathed in blood on the Cross for sinners, and through the thrice holy name of Jesus obtain for us of the eternal Father the favor for which we implore your intercession . . . Amid the splendors of eternity, forget not the sorrows of those who pray, those who weep; stay the almighty arm which smites us, that by your prayers and those of your most holy spouse, the Heart of Jesus may be moved to pity and to pardon . . . Amen. Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Novena Day 3
Blessed Saint Joseph, enkindle in our cold hearts a spark of your charity. May God be always the first and only object of our affections. Keep our souls always in sanctifying grace and, if we should be so unhappy as to lose it, give us the strength to recover it immediately by a sincere repentance. Help us to such a love of our God as will always keep us united to Him. . . Amen. Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Novena Day 4
Saint Joseph, pride of Heaven, unfailing hope for our lives, and support of those on earth, graciously accept our prayer of praise. You were appointed spouse of the chaste Virgin by the Creator of the world. He willed that you be called “father” of the Word and serve as agent of our salvation. May the triune God who bestowed upon you heavenly honors, be praised forever. And may He grant us through your merits the joy of a blessed life and a favorable answer to our petition . . . Amen. Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Novena Day 5
O holy Saint Joseph, what a lesson your life is for us, ever so eager to appear so anxious to display before the eyes of men the graces that we owe entirely to the liberality of God. In addition to the special favor . . . for which we plead in this novena, grant that we may attribute to God the glory of all things, that we may love the humble and hidden life, that we may not desire any other position than the one given us by Providence and that we may always be a docile instrument in the hands of God. . . Amen. Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Novena Day 6
O Glorious Saint Joseph, appointed by the Eternal Father as the guardian and protector of the life of Jesus Christ, the comfort and support of His Holy Mother, and the instrument in His great design for the redemption of mankind; you who had the happiness of living with Jesus and Mary, and of dying in their arms, be moved with the confidence we place in you, and procure for us from the Almighty, the particular favor which we humbly ask through your intercession . . . Amen. Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Novena Day 7
O faithful and prudent Saint Joseph, watch over our weakness and our inexperience; obtain for us that prudence which reminds us of our end, which directs our paths and which protects us from every danger. Pray for us, then, O great Saint, and by your love for Jesus and Mary, and by Their love for you, obtain for us the favor we ask in this novena . . . Amen. Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Novena Day 8
O Blessed Joseph, to whom it was given not only to see and to hear that God whom many kings longed to see and saw not; to hear and heard not; but also to carry Him in your arms, to embrace Him, to clothe Him, and to guard and defend Him, come to our assistance and intercede with Him to look favorably on our present petition. . . Amen. Saint Joseph, pray for us!
Novena Day 9
O good Saint Joseph, help us to be like you, gentle to those whose weakness leans on us; help us to give to those who seek our aid, succor that they may journey unafraid. Give us your faith, that we may see the right shining above the victories of might. Give us your hope that we may stand secure, untouched by doubting, steadfast to endure. Give us your love that as the years increase an understanding heart may bring us peace. Give us your purity that the hour of death finds us untouched by evil’s breath. Give us your love of labour that we shirk no lot in life that calls us for honest work. Give us your love of poverty so that we live contented, let wealth come or go. Give us your courage that we may be strong; give us your meekness to confess our sins. Give us your patience that we may possess the kingdom of our souls without distress. Help us, dear Saint, to live that when life ends we pass with you to Jesus and His friends. O Glorious Saint Joseph, hear our prayers and obtain our petitions . . . Amen. Saint Joseph, pray for us!
St Joseph give my husband the strength he needs to fight this cancer and be cured .Amen
Please pray for my husband Adolph who now has Dementia not to be afraid.,,and our adult children with our grandchildren to truly believe God’s presence in the holy Eucharist.and come to church and especially for our Daughter -in-law
Kacie , and our son Anthony to be saved and there marriage healed . That we may all be rejoicing some day together in heaven. For our daughter’ Dianna, to return to the catholic faith with her husband
‘ Brian who is protestant and Lisa with her husband Sean. and Monica whose husband
Matr. Committed suicide he loved Jesus in his protestant faith. Please pray his soul is at peace. For there
Children Daniel almost 20yrs, old Lauren,18,and Matty 12yrs.and all our other young adult grandchildren especially Brianna, Kellie, Haley, Blake, Brandon,,Christian and Ryann to be saved and seek God there not attending church and our protestant when they do. Please God for me to Love God with all my being and surrender to God’s Holy will for us all. Not to be a stumbling block to my family. Or others.
Thank you,God bless you all who pray.. please too for Godly husband’s. and Wife’s for our granchildren or to become priest or religious God’s Holy will be done. .