Ave Maria Meditations
As we enter into the month of May, Our Lady’s month, it is most appropriate to begin with a Feast, a salute, to her most chaste spouse and protector, St. Joseph, whose many titles include Foster-Father of Jesus Christ, Patron of the Universal Church, Terror of demons, and Patron of the Dying. A lovely litany can be found here: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/litanies/joseph.htm
O Glorious St. Joseph, model of all those who are devoted to labor, obtain for me the grace to work conscientiously, putting the call of duty above my natural inclinations, to work with gratitude and joy, in a spirit of penance for the remission of my sins, considering it an honor to employ and develop by means of labor the gifts received from God, to work with order, peace, moderation and patience, without ever shrinking from weariness and difficulties, to work above all with purity of intention and detachment from self, having always death before my eyes and the account that I must render of time lost, of talents wasted, of good omitted, of vain complacency in success, so fatal to the work of God.
All for Jesus, all through Mary, all after thine example, O Patriarch, St. Joseph. Such shall be my watch-word in life and in death.
+ Pope St. Pius X
