Oratio ad Sanctum Ioseph Ante Missam (Prayer to St. Joseph Before Mass
From the Roman Missal.
O felicem virum, beatum Ioseph, cui datum est Deum, quem multi reges voluerunt
videre et non viderunt, audire et non audierunt, non solum videre et audire, sed
portare, deosculari, vestire et custodire!
V Ora pro nobis, beate Iospeh.
R Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi.
Deus, qui dedisti nobis regale sacerdotium: praesta, quaesumus; ut, sicut beatus Ioseph
unigenitum Filium tuum, natum ex Maria Virgine, suis manibus reverenter tractare
meruit et portare, ita nos facias cum cordis munditia et operis innocentia tuis sanctis
altaribus deservire, ut sacrosanctum Filii tui Corpus et Sanguinem hodie digne
sumamus, et in futuro saeculo praemium habere mereamur aeternum. Per eundem
Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
O Blessed Joseph, happy man, to whom it was given not only to see and to hear that
God Whom many kings longed to see, and saw not, to hear, and heard not; but also to
carry Him in your arms, to embrace Him, to clothe Him, and guard and defend Him.
V Pray for us, O Blessed Joseph.
R That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
O God, Who has given us a royal priesthood, we beseech Thee, that as Blessed Joseph
was found worthy to touch with his hands, and to bear in his arms, Thy only-begotten
Son, born of the Virgin Mary, so may we be made fit, by cleanness of heart and
blamelessness of life, to minister at Thy holy altar; may we, this day, with reverent
devotion partake of the Sacred Body and Blood of Your Only-begotten Son, and may
we in the world to come be accounted worthy of receiving an everlasting reward.
Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
