HAIL JOSEPH

 

HAIL JOSEPH SON OF DAVID

Hail Joseph, royal son of David, God is with you! Blessed are you amongst men and blessed is our Lord Jesus Christ! Holy Joseph, Guardian of the Redeemer, pray for us, and be with us, now and as we sigh our last breath. Amen.

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♔ CROWN OF ETERNAL LIFE: THE ASSUMPTION OF ST. JOSEPH ♔ (NOT OFFICIALLY DEFINED AS DOGMA BY THE CHURCH)

St. Bernardino of Siena: In the same way that Mary was assumed into Heaven, it is thought that Jesus deigned to glorify Joseph. In this way, all of the Holy Family – Jesus, Mary and Joseph – who lived together on Earth, would reign together in Heaven.

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Hail Joseph Son of David, God is with you! Blessed are you amongst men and blessed is Our Lord Jesus Christ! Holy Joseph, Guardian of the Redeemer, pray for us, and be with us, now and as we sigh our last breath. + Amen.
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♔ THE JOY OF ST. JOSEPH’S SANCTIFICATION ♔

Remember: Every Wednesday is devoted to St. Joseph. Today let us honor St. Joseph and contemplate the Joy of his sanctification in the womb! May the Lord God be praised and glorified through His wonderful mysteries!

Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee...  – Jeremiah 1:5

St. Joseph was a miracle of holiness and the Lord infused into his soul the most perfect habits of all the virtues and gifts. Joseph was sanctified in his mother’s womb seven months after his conception, and the leaven of sin was destroyed in him for the whole course of his life.  – Venerable Maria de Agreda

St. Joseph had three privileges which were special to him. Firstly, that he was sanctified in his mother's womb. Secondly, that he was at the same time confirmed in grace. And thirdly, that he was always exempt from the inclinations of concupiscence.  – St. Alphonsus Liguori

✠ 1 OUR FATHER ✠ 10 HAIL JOSEPH ✠ 1 GLORY BE ✠

✠ Hail Joseph Son of David, God is with you! blessed are you among men and blessed is our Lord Jesus Christ! Holy Joseph, Guardian of the Redeemer, pray for us and be with us now and as we sigh our last breath. Amen. ✠

 

For the Apostolate's article on the Sanctification of St. Joseph, click here.

HAIL JOSEPH SON OF DAVID

♔ HAIL JOSEPH ♔

Hail Joseph, Son of David, God is with you.
Blessed are you amongst men, and blessed
is Our Lord Jesus Christ!

Holy Joseph, Guardian of the Redeemer,
pray for us, and be with us, now and as
we sigh our last breath.

+ Amen.

 

MARCH: THE MONTH OF ST JOSEPH

The Church has always advised the faithful to develop a devotion to St Joseph, to pray to him, to look to him as their patron – but how many of the faithful have heeded these recommendations? The Popes through the ages have made recommendations for us in order to enrich our spiritual lives, but how many people actually listen? If, for example, a Pope speaks through an Encyclical or a Moto Proprio, does anyone follow through with the Holy Father’s advice? Does it matter if the document is from years ago?

Take, among many examples, the Moto Proprio of Pope Benedict XV “BONUM SANE” (1920). In this document, the Holy Father at the time is explicitly exhorting the bishops to encourage the faithful to pray to St Joseph – to honor him at least every Wednesday of the year (not just on March 19) that devotion to St Joseph be practiced “as much as possible”, in “every diocese.”

Now when was the last time your local Bishop encouraged you to pray to St Joseph? (I mean REALLY encouraged it?) We cannot rely on the Bishops since many have not even heard of “BONUM SANE” or other papal documents asking for devotion to St Joseph to be practiced by the faithful. So it is up to us to tell others of devotion to St Joseph and to practice this devotion. This is not to say that there aren't some diocese in which there is devotion to St Joseph, but they are very few.

True, it is easier for people to pray the prayers we have memorized: “Our Father”, “Hail Mary” and “Glory Be”, but why not get to know a short prayer to St Joseph? Something we can learn and keep in our hearts, like this simple prayer composed by Pope St Pius X:

O Joseph, virgin father of Jesus, pure spouse of the Virgin Mary, pray for us daily to the Son of God, that, armed with the weapons of His grace, we may fight as we ought in life, and be crowned by Him in death. + Amen.

... or how about this adaptation of the “Hail Mary” to St Joseph:

Hail Joseph, Son of David, God is with you. Blessed are you amongst men, and blessed is Our Lord Jesus Christ! Holy Joseph, Guardian of the Redeemer, pray for us and be with us now and as we sigh our last breath.  + Amen.

More prayers to St Joseph HERE.

Very soon the Apostolate of St Joseph Prince of the Church will be releasing the booklet: “THE LITTLE OFFICE OF ST JOSEPH”, which is a perfect way to honor the Patron of the Universal Church - by praying the hours of St Joseph. It is hoped that many people will benefit from using this booklet and that they will help spread this simple devotion to St Joseph.

I wish everyone a Blessed Month of St Joseph and a Holy Season of Lent. Benedicamus Domino! Ite ad Ioseph!

Pope Benedict XV, Bonum Sane:  We, full of confidence in the patronage of the one to whose provident supervision God was pleased to entrust the custody of His only-begotten Incarnate Son, and the Virgin Mother of God, we earnestly exhort all the Bishops of the Catholic world that, in times so turbulent for Christianity, to induce the faithful to pray with greater commitment for the valuable help of St. Joseph. And since there are several ways approved by the Apostolic See with whom you can venerate the Holy Patriarch, especially every Wednesday throughout the year and month consecrated to him, We want, for every Bishop to heed these requests - that all these devotions, as much as possible, are practiced in every diocese.

The Sorrowful Mysteries of St Joseph

Hail Joseph, Son of David, God is with you.

Blessed are you amongst men, and blessed is

Our Lord Jesus Christ! Holy Joseph, Guardian of the Redeemer,

pray for us and be with us now and as we sigh our last breath. + Amen.

 
1) St Joseph Resolves to Leave Mary Finding Blessed Mary to be pregnant, and knowing that he was not the father, St Joseph was wounded to his inmost heart by an arrow of grief…The most intimate cause of his sorrow, and which gave him the deepest pain, was the dread of being obliged to deliver over his spouse to the authorities to be stoned (Lev. 20, 10), for this was the punishment of an adulteress convicted of the crime. The heart of St Joseph, filled with these painful considerations, found itself as it were exposed to the thrusts of many sharp-edged swords, without any other refuge than the full confidence which he had in his Spouse.  – Venerable Maria de Agreda

Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately. – St Matthew 1:19

2) The Poverty of Jesus’ Birth And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him up in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. – St Luke 2:7

It was nine o’clock at night when the most faithful Joseph, full of bitter and heartrending sorrow, returned to Mary and said: “My sweetest Lady my heart is broken with sorrow at the thought of not being able to shelter thee as thou deserves...”   – Ven Maria de Agreda

3) The Piercing of Mary’s Soul And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary: Behold this child is set for the fall, and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted; And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed. – St Luke 2:34-35

As the most faithful Joseph loved the Blessed Virgin so much, and as he was of a kind and solicitous disposition, he was troubled to see his spouse so tearful and afflicted… This disturbance of his soul was one of the reasons why the holy angels spoke to him in sleep, (to comfort him.)  – Venerable Maria de Agreda

4) The Exile into Egypt Behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him." And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son." - St. Matthew 2:13-15 

How much St Joseph must have suffered on the journey into Egypt in seeing the sufferings of Jesus and Mary! … Joseph was indeed conformed in all things to the will of the Eternal Father, but his tender and loving heart could not but feel pain in seeing the Son of God trembling and weeping from cold and the other hardships which He experienced on that hard journey. - St Alphonsus Liguori

5) Loss of the Child Jesus When Jesus was twelve years old, they went to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the Pasch, and having fulfilled the days, when they returned, the child Jesus remained in Jerusalem; and his parents knew it not. And thinking that he was in the company, they came a day's journey, and sought him among their kinsfolks and acquaintance.  And not finding him, they returned into Jerusalem, seeking him.   – St Luke 2:41-45

Most holy Mary and St Joseph found themselves … overwhelmed with self-reproach at their remissness in watching over their most holy Son and thus blamed themselves for his absence… and with deepest sorrow took counsel with each other as to what was to be done. – Venerable Maria de Agreda

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