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Let all of our school and parish families join together in prayer in these days leading up to the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker for a growth in enrollment in our school, our early childhood programming, and our family faith formation programming. We will only accomplish a growth in our faith communities through earnest prayer and devotion. Saint Joseph, Pray for Us!
The Novena to Saint Joseph the Worker for a growth in our enrollment begins April 23rd and concludes on May 1st. Please see the text and instructions of the novena prayer. My thanks to everyone for praying for our growth.”
Father Nathan
Spring Novena for a Growth in Enrollment/Novena Prayer to Saint Joseph the Worker/Begins on April 23rd and ends on May 1st
1. Pray one Rosary each day (how to pray the rosary).
2. At the conclusion of the Rosary, pray the following prayer:
Joseph, by the work of your hands and the sweat of your brow, you supported Jesus and Mary, and had the Son of God as your fellow worker. Teach me to work as you did, with patience and perseverance, for God and for those whom God has given me to support. Teach me to see in my fellow workers the Christ who desires to be in them, that I may always be charitable and forbearing towards all. Grant me to look upon work with the eyes of faith, so that I shall recognize in it my share in God's own creative activity and in Christ's work of our redemption, and so take pride in it. When it is pleasant and productive, remind me to give thanks to God for it. And when it is burdensome, teach me to offer it to God, in reparation for my sins and the sins of the world.
Novena Prayer
O good father Joseph! I beg you, by all your sufferings, sorrows and joys, to obtain for me what I ask.
(Here name your petition). [an increase in enrollment for our school and formation programs]
Obtain for all those who have asked my prayers, everything that is useful to them in the plan of God. Be near to me in my last moments that I may eternally sing the praises of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Amen.
3. Pray one additional Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be.