To you, O blessed Joseph we have recourse in our afflictions, and after having implored the help of your thrice holy spouse, we now with hearts filled with confidence earnestly beg you also to take us under your protection. By that charity where with you were united to the immaculate virgin Mother of God, and by that fatherly love with which you did cherish the child Jesus, we beseech you and we humble pray that you will look down with gracious eye upon that inheritance which Jesus Christ purchased by his blood and will succor us in our needs by your power and strength.
Defend, O most watchful guardian of the Holy family the chosen offspring of Jesus Christ. Keep from us, O most valiant defender, in this conflict. And even as of old you did rescue the child Jesus from the peril of his life. So now defends God’s holy Church from the snare of the enemy and from all adversity. Shield us ever under your example and strengthened by your help we may live a holy life , die a happy death and attain everlasting bliss in heaven. Amen

Glorious Saint Joseph, model of all who work, obtain for me the grace to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my many sins; to work with gratitude and joy, considering it an honor to employ and develop, by my labor, the gifts received from God; to work with order, peace moderation and patience, never recoiling before weariness or difficulties; to work, above all, with pure intention and detachment from self, having always before my eyes death and the account which I must then render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, and of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God. All for Jesus, all through Mary, all in imitation of you, O Patriarch Joseph. This shall be my motto in life death. Amen.

O glorious Saint Joseph, after the blessed Virgin, you were the first to enfold in your arms the Redeemer. Be our exemplar in our ministry, which like your own, is a ministry of intimate relationship with the Divine Word. May you teach us, may you assist us, may you make us worthy members of the Holy Family.