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Everything we know about the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus comes from Scripture and that has seemed too little for those who made up legends about him. We know he was a carpenter, a working man, for the skeptical Nazarenes ask about Jesus, "Is this not the carpenter's son?" (Matthew 13:55). He wasn't rich for when he took Jesus to the Temple to be circumcised and Mary to be purified he offered the sacrifice of two ... Continue Reading
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Dear Saint Joseph, I would like to thank you for all the blessings in my life. I have been praying for a job in a specific company for the last one year. Though I am not qualified for this job, the management liked my CV and they told me that they will give me an opportunity if there is an opening. I have been waiting for the last six months. Please request our Lord to perform a miracle as I need this job urgently. My dear Saint Joseph please help me.
Thank you, St. Joseph for protecting our family. Please continue to guide us. Amen.
Dear St. Joseph, patron of the Universal Church,of all Fathers and my dear patron saint, please pray for me and guard me against all evils. Thank You!
Dear St Joseph!! Happy Feast Day! I pray to you to intercede in my situation to restore my relationship with someone. Please give me a chance to be one of those people who poster thanks and write a testimony here.
On this St.Joseph's day I pray to you. Please guide me tomorrow on my interview, that all will go my way. Patron Saint of workers help me in my struggle with depression to be at peace with this job. May I be able to provide for my family and keep them and myself happy.
St Joseph Thank you for everything. Please intercede for my situation to sell my business and to restore my relationship with someone in my life. Thank you!
HAPPY FEAST DAY TO YOU ST. JOSEPH!! WE LOVE YOU, THANK YOU AND HONOR YOU!!
Dear Saint Joseph,
I love you and I am devoted to you. Happy Feast day today!
Please keep praying for my family and I, for the Church and for all Father's in the world. In a special way too, I pray today for little children that they may enjoy your interecession and protection - you who was the Foster Father of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Greet our Mother Mary. Tell her we love her and we count on her prayers too.
I look forward to meeting you when I leave this world someday.
All my love.
St. Joseph, thank you for your prayers and help. Please intercede for all of us seeking work. I love you. Amen.
St.Joseph Patron Saint of all Ugandans.
pray for us.
Dear St. Joseph, Happy Feast Day! Thank you for your help and assistance throughout my life so far. I believe it is because of my special attachment to you that despite many helpless situations and moments in my life, I have never, not even once, lost face or hope becuase of your constant assistance. Thank you for answering many of my small petitions to you ever since my school days. The one constant thing I had always asked you was for me to be granted a good husband like yourself. however, I do not know what I have today! I feel so unblessed in this aspect, as, what I have is quite contrary to what I want and wish and I am not able to understand whether I am just going through a trial or whether my marriage is simply hopeless! I have struggled for 7 years already and do not, according to my human intelligence, see any respite forthcoming. In this 35th year of my life and on your most venerated day in the year, my earnest prayer to you is to give me strength and support in whatever measure I may decide to undertake in order to improve my life. This is all the more important and urgent as I have my earthly responsibility to 7 year old Joseph, my boy and your namesake. You know Joseph has suffered much and have not had a father's real love and protection. It breaks my heart to see my boy suffer and exposed to so many unplesantness. We are at our most pathetic stage and I fear the worst. We need your divine intervention! Please intercede for us so that something significant may happen soon for the better. Please ask Jesus to touch my husband's frozen heart so that it may melt just a bit - just enough to fit in a little more love for his son, at least.
Also, if it is God's will, please interceed for me so that the new job I interviewed for - lingering on the final decision - may ultimately open up for me! St. Joseph, patron of life, wholesome saint....pray for me. Thank you and Amen.
Dear St. Joseph,
I brings us great joy to honor you on this day as the foster father of Our Lord Jesus, and spouse to Blessed Mary. Your faith and obedience to the Father, your love for the Holy Child and protector of the Holy Family is an example to us all.
You have long been my patron, I know you always hear my prayer, and grant what is best for me.
Strenghthen in Faith and love the Church which you are the Universal patron. Give those who have lost their faith a second chance, bring them back to the truth which is the Church headed by Christ, and supported by His sacraments. We pray to you for help with those who cannot or will not pray for themselves.
Lastly, please help me to find the means very soon to be able to retire, spend my time serving the Lord with the talents He gave me, and offering prayer and praise to Him until my death.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Dear St Joseph, today is your FEAST DAY and our Holy Mother Church everywhere in the world celebrates your special day because you are special in the story of Salvation. My life is a living testimony of your powerful prayers and how you generously intercede for those who turn to you in trust. Today I am appealing to you to save my friend who wants to commit suicide. I will briefly fill in the background story about him. Timmy was born on Sunday, 4th April 1976 to a Finnish family who immigrated to Sydney, Australia from Finland in 1970. Timmy's father was a hopeless alcoholic drinking all his wages in filthy pubs and his mother a sober and hardworking woman struggling endlessly to feed her 6 children on a small income she received as a house cleaner to a wealthy but kind Jewish lady. Life was far from happy and every day a battle to make ends meet. Timmy 's brother, a hopeless heroin addict, talked Timmy into smoking heroin at age 16 telling him that smoking won't get him addicted. Well, before very long Timmy developed a $400 a day heroin habit and his life became his living hell. In 2004 his family saved enough money to fund Timmy's treatment and Timmy was living a healthy, clean and rewarding life with a well paid job, played sport and for hobby restored classic BMW cars 1962-1965 series with great success and financial rewards. Timmy met and fell madly in love 13 months ago with a beautiful young lady (22 years old) who swept him off his feet, to everyone's horror she is a heroin addict. Timmy is now homeless, penniless, unemployable and suicidal junkie who lost everything worth living for. Timmy sleeps on park benches frequently assaulted by drunk louts and he's soliciting gold coins from pedestrians and patrons in pubs. Where there is life there is hope and today is the day I trust you will plead with Jesus to rescue Timmy from his heroin HELL and restore him back to his tortured and terrified family. AMEN
happy feast day beloved st joseph. you embraced your role in the holy family.you are often overlooked and underappreciated. since i have no father and my mom has no husband, please fill those roles in my family and in all families without a father.thank you for your guidance.
Dear St. Joseph, it's early morning of your feastday, which brings me to the much awaited day. I celebrate your holy, humble, happy life. How else would you have been chose to be the earthly father of Jesus the son of God, and spouse of Mary. In the company of Jesus and Mary you lived. Protector of Jesus and Mary, it is often told that there is nothing we ask of you on your feast day that you will not grant. I also know that I must persevere in asking, for that is Jesus' lesson on prayer. I believe that with true and quiet faith. Please grant a permanent cure of all chilfdren suffering from developmental delays. Grant the gift of Baptism to those who know Jesus and are resisting His heavenly grace. Protect all families from any onslaught that threatens their unity. Bless children who are denied their faith. Pray for all who are dying at this very moment. St. Joseph, I love you. Amen,
Happy feast day St. Joseph, I can't wait to greet you and smile joyously, for I trust you as the truest friend of man and the humblest servant of God. You are upright, just and completely self-effacing. Jesus the son of God revered and honoured you as his father. How much more should we? I love your care for Mother Mary, the Bethlehem scene, the Presentation, the flight to Egypt, the finding of our Lord Jesus, and his obedience to you. Dear Saint, who is remembered as the patron saint of the universal church, guard and guide her, and preserve, restore her always. St. Joseph, patron saint of the dying thank you for being with my dying mother, she has found eternal rest. St. Joseph powerful saint there's nothing you will deny us when we ask on your feastday. I implore you to give healing and complete cure for all children who are born with pervasive developmental delays. Give them a permanent cure. Heal my daughter who will be going in for tonsillectomy, grant us safe travel too. Amen.
Thank you St Joseph for your intercessions to Lord Jesus for me to have passed all my modules, especially the particular two which I thought I was going to fail due to bad/poor performance. Thank You Lord Jesus for the answered prayers :)
thank you so much for all you do bless you!
St. Joseph, Thank you for your continued blessings from almost 22 years ago.
dear st.joseph,
thanks for hearing my petition i'll always remember that.but today i ask you special prayer for my job please pray to your son our JESUS to give me one job i need job you know my childrens dont have their father support and i'm their father and mother so please give me suitable job so that i can look after my childrens daily need i ask this favour in the name of our lord an saviour JESUS CHRIST.Amen