Monday, September 3, 2012
Laborem Exercens
Read it lately? Here it is! St. Joseph, pray for us!
Prayer to Saint Joseph, Patron of Workers
Glorious Saint Joseph, you are the pattern of all who work. Obtain
for me, please, the grace to work conscientiously and to put devotion to duty
before my selfish inclinations. Help me to labor in thankfulness and joy, for it
is an honor to employ and to develop by my labor the gifts I have received from
almighty God. Grant that I may work in orderliness, peace, moderation and
patience without shrinking from weariness and difficulties. I offer my fatigue
and perplexities as reparation for sin. I shall work, above all, with a pure
intention and with detachment from self, having always before my eyes the hour
of death and the accounting which I must then render of time ill-spent, of
talents unemployed, of good undone, and of empty pride in success, which is so
fatal to the work of God. For Jesus through Mary, all in imitation of you, good
Saint Joseph. This shall be my motto in life and in death. Amen.
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