Novena to Saint Joseph: Second Day
There is always a cause for the choices God makes.
Out of the long procession of men through history, God selected Joseph to be the husband of Mary and the protector of the Saviour.
Joseph’s youth was one of stainless virtue.
His young manhood was marked by deep religious faith and a burning desire to see the Saviour of Israel. His was a life of honest work and of a humility that fitted him for his part in the hidden life of the Saviour.
Little did he dream as he visited the synagogue on the Sabbath that someday he would be the protector of the synagogue’s God. Little did he understand that the trade of carpenter that he was learning would be the means by which he would provide food and clothing for the world’s maker, would be the trade that he would teach the creator of the universe.
Without knowing what it was that he was getting ready for, he gave to his simple jobs the full devotion and the full strength of a character of a simple, honest man.
In these ordinary ways did he fit himself for the extraordinary assignment that God would give him.
Remembering this splendid man, who walked the simple ways, we pray:
The Prayer of Saint Joseph.
O God, who in your ineffable providence was pleased to choose blessed Joseph for the spouse of your most holy Mother, grant we beseech you, that we may be worthy to have him for our intercessor in heaven whom we venerate as our protector on earth. Who lives and reigns with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.
(Copyright 1947 Daniel A. Lord, S.J. Nihil Obstat: John M. Fearns, S.T.D. Imprimatur: Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop, New York)
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