To you, St. Joseph, we turn in our tribulation, and after having implored the aid of Your Most Holy Spouse, we confidently request Your patronage. Through that sacred bond of charity which united you to the Immaculate Virgin, the Mother of God, and through the paternal love you had for the Child Jesus, we earnestly beg you to cast a benevolent gaze upon the inheritance which Jesus won with His blood, and to assist us in our needs with Your help and power. Protect, O provident Guardian of the Holy Family, the chosen race of Jesus Christ. Drive far away from us, O Most Loving Father, the plague of error and vice.
Assist us from the heights of heaven, O our most powerful support, in the struggle against the power of darkness; just as you once saved the life of the Child Jesus from death, so now defend the Holy Church of God against the snares of her enemies and against every adversity. Uphold each one of us with Your constant patronage, so that, following Your example and sustained by Your aid, we may live virtuously, die piously, and obtain eternal happiness in heaven. So be it. Amen.