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Thirty Days' Prayer to St. Joseph,
CHASTE SPOUSE OF THE EVER IMMACULATE AND BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, AND REPUTED FATHER OF JESUS CHRIST.
To Obtain a Happy Death and other Good Intentions.
EVER blessed and glorious Joseph, kind and indulgent Father, and compassionate friend of all in sorrow, through that bitter grief with which thy heart was saturated when thou didst behold the sufferings of the Infant Saviour, and in prophetic view didst contemplate His most ignominious passion and death; take pity, I beseech thee, on my poverty and necessities; council me in my doubts; and console me in all my anxieties. Thou art the good
