Saint Joseph The Worker Pray For Us catholic conference catholic retreat consecration to saint joseph fr. donald calloway saint joseph conference saint joseph summit year of saint joseph May 01, 2021
 
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Today we honor the feast day of Saint Joseph, the worker! In this Year of Saint Joseph, we really wanted to create a way for God to renew us through the life and witness of Saint Joseph, the foster father of Jesus! Earlier this week we announced that we will be hosting a massive virtual summit called OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER: Pilgrimage to the heart of Saint Joseph. As you celebrate this feast and invite Saint Joseph to pray with you and for you, please register for the summit today. Visit saintjosephsummit.com #YearOfSaintJoseph #catholicsummit #catholicConference #CatholicChurch #saintjosephretreat #catholicevents #consecration #SaintJosephtheWorker #catholicblogger #catholic #prayerteam
 
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To you, O blessed Joseph 

To you, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our afflictions, and having implored the help of your most holy Spouse, we confidently invoke your patronage also.

Through that charity which bound you to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God and through the paternal love with which you embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly beg you graciously to regard the inheritance which Jesus Christ has purchased by his Blood, and with your power and strength to aid us in our necessities.

O most watchful guardian of the Holy Family, defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ; O most loving father, ward off from us every contagion of error and corrupting influence; O our most mighty protector, be kind to us and from heaven assist us in our struggle with the power of darkness.

As once you rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God’s Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity; shield, too, each one of us by your constant protection, so that, supported by your example and your aid, we may be able to live piously, to die in holiness, and to obtain eternal happiness in heaven. Amen.

“I do not remember even now that I have ever asked anything of [St. Joseph] which he has failed to grant… To other saints the Lord seems to have given grace to succour us in some of our necessities, but of this glorious saint my experience is that he succours us in them all…” (Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila)

Deacon Steve Greco: Lord, Help Me Always to Speak the Truth

Excerpt from Deacon Steve Greco's 2014 book 365 Days of Praise for April 19:

Proverbs 12:22 “Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD,/but those who are truthful are his delight.”

Have you ever lied? How did you feel in your spirit and soul? I know, you thought you had a good reason. It was to protect the innocent or some other rationalization that sounded good at the time. However, deep down you knew the truth, but you didn’t have the courage to “speak” the truth. Was there a time when you did speak the truth, and you felt the peace of the Lord? You felt His presence and love?

Lord, help me always to speak the truth, no matter the cost. I praise You for being the God of truth, for You are the way, the truth and the life.

When do you feel weak and tell lies or half-truths to those in your life? In your personal life? At work?

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