My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

idaitate thy virtues. In union with all those wb have
ever been most devoted to thee, I now dedicate myself
to thy sentice, berecching thee, for the sake of Jesus
Christ, Who vouchded to love and obey thee as a son,
to become s father to me, and to obtain for me the filial
respect, confidence, and love of a child toward thee.
0 powerful advocate of all Christians! whose intercession,
as St. Teresa assures us, has never been found
to fail, deign to intercede for me now, and to obtain for
me the particular object of this novena. [Specify it.]
Present me, 0 great saint, to the adorable Trinity,
with Whom thou hadst so glorious and so intimate
a correspondena. Obtain that I may never efface by
sin the sacred image according to the likeness of which
I was created. Beg for me that my divine Redeemer
may enkindle in my hart, and in all~hearts, the fire of
His love, and infuse therein the virtues of His adorable
infancy, His purity, simplicity, obedience, and humility.
Obtain for me likewise a lively devotion to thy virgin
spouse, and protect me so pwerfully in life and death
that I may have the happiness of dying as thou didst,
in the friendship of my Creator, and under the imlnediate
protection of the Mother of God.
Pius IX, by a rescript of the S. C. of Indulgences, Nov.
18, 1876, granted to all the faithful who, with contrite
heart, devoutly make at any time during the year a novena
in honw of St. Joseph, spouse of Mary *st he, with any
formula of prayer, provided it be approved by com tent
ecclesiastical authority, an inddgencc of three hundr3hys,
once a day; a plenury itadulguue, during the course of the
novena, if, being truly penitent, having confessed and communicated,
they pray for the intention of the Sovereign
Pontiti.
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