{"id":4359,"date":"2010-05-01T08:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T08:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/05\/a-prayer-to-st-joseph-the-worker.html"},"modified":"2010-05-01T08:41:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T08:41:21","slug":"a-prayer-to-st-joseph-the-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/05\/a-prayer-to-st-joseph-the-worker.html","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to St. Joseph the Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"> <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/stjoseph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stjoseph.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/212\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/stjoseph-thumb-300x410-13318.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0pt auto 20px\" height=\"410\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span>O Glorious St. Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor, obtain for me the grace to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my natural inclinations, to work with gratitude and joy, in a spirit of penance for the remission of my sins, considering it an honor to employ and develop by means of labor the gifts received from God, to work with order, peace, moderation and patience, without ever shrinking from weariness and difficulties, to work above all with purity of intention and detachment from self, having always death before my eyes and the account that I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God.<br \/>\nAll for Jesus, all through Mary, all after thine example, O Patriarch, St. Joseph. 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