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The tradition of letting a saint “pick you,”is not a new one. St. Faustina and her order practiced it and she herself wrote about it in her diary, "Divine Mercy in My Soul".

The excerpt is below. . .

“There is a custom among us of drawing by lot, on New Year's Day, special Patrons for ourselves for the whole year. In the morning, during meditation, there arose within me a secret desire that the Eucharistic Jesus be my special Patron for this year also, as in the past. But, hiding this desire from my Beloved, I spoke to Him about everything else but that. When we came to refectory for breakfast, we blessed ourselves and began drawing our patrons. When I approached the holy cards on which the names of the patrons were written, without hesitation I took one, but I didn't read the name immediately as I wanted to mortify myself for a few minutes. Suddenly, I heard a voice in my soul: ‘I am your patron. Read.’ I looked at once at the inscription and read, ‘Patron for the Year 1935 - the Most Blessed Eucharist.’ My heart leapt with joy, and I slipped quietly away from the sisters and went for a short visit before the Blessed Sacrament,where I poured out my heart. But Jesus sweetly admonished me that I should be at that moment together with the sisters. I went immediately in obedience to the rule.”

Excerpt from "Divine Mercy in My Soul, the Diary of St. Faustina"

Monday, May 15, 2017

All I can say is WOW!  Thank you sooooo much St. Joseph!!!

I have a dear friend who has a black cloud over her entire life, if something is going to happen, it is going to happen to her. Most recently, she lost her job. Employment has been really hit and miss lately since all that she has been able to procure are temporary positions. She is the only bread winner and has no one else to help support her. Things were looking really bleak for her and then I found this Novena to St. Joseph. On the fifth day of prayer, she received an offer of a full time job with benefits and started this morning! I am continuing the Novena to bring her back to the church. God is good! Don't ever forget that! St. Joseph was chosen out of all the people in the whole world for a specific reason. Be forever thankful that you are Catholic and that we have so many resources and so many who are willing to pray for us!

Saint Joseph, foster-father and protector of Jesus Christ, spouse of the blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of God, powerful protector of the Holy Church, to you do I raise my heart and hands to implore your powerful intercession. You searched nothing else in this world but the glory of God and the good of others. You gave yourself completely to the Savior, it was cause for joy to pray, to work, to sacrifice yourself, to suffer, to die for him. You were unknown in this world even though Jesus knew you very well, he would look at your simple and hidden life with complacency. Saint Joseph, you have helped so many people so far I come to you with great trust. In the light of God you can see what misses me, you know my worries, my difficulties, my sorrow. I commend to your fatherly sollicitude this specific task... (find employment for example). I am placing it in your hands that saved child-Jesus. Ask for the grace to never separate me from Jesus by the mortal sin, to know him ant love him even more and his blessed Mother, to always live in the presence of God, to do anything for his glory and the good of other souls, and one day to reach the beatific vision of God to praise him eternally with you. Amen.

This novena is very powerful to find employment (it has worked several times).You can say this novena anytime and it would be very surprising if at the end of a novena Saint Joseph would not find a contract for you!

This novena is an extract from the book The Glories of Saint Joseph
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